TNRabbit

All I know is, I sit in the sweet spot & drift away~

I agree with Bill in that the main difference is in the ORIGINAL recording & subsequent mastering. An SACD can sound like crap if it's made from a bad master/source.

Started on Club Polk; I'm moving it here for all to see/contribute: Whether or not these are all Zappa quotes, I cannot confirm. But they sure sound like it to me. I would have voted long ago if he had actually run for office. A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. Music is always a commentary on society. Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

You can find a few of them on Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mobile+fidelity+sound+labs

You mean THESE? More info: http://vintageev.com/

Steely Dan: Gaucho Kansas: Leftoverture Donald Fagen: The Nightfly, Kamikiriad, Everything Must Go, Morph the Cat Collective Soul: Disciplined Breakdown

Try www.imdb.com It's THE BEST place online for information about movies. And you're welcome~

Try https://www.imdb.com/ It's THE BEST place online for information about movies. And you're welcome~

He's busy but here's his response: "The "safe" answer is to get an iTunes account and purchase in Apple lossless format. The problem is that it may not be as portable as he wants but, hey, due to the larger file sizes lossless formats are not meant for portability anyway. There are also other services such as http://www.hdtracks.com/. There are some premium services (I don't remember the name anymore) that will allow you to request any track and they will hunt it down for you and sell it to you as a FLAC or WMV-HD. Just to dispel a few myths that I saw in the thread. Neither WMV or FLAC are necessarily 100% lossless. And, yes, you can get some high-bit-rate MP3 rips that sound indistinguishable from their CD original, in my humble opinion. If you want to rip a CD where not a single bit is lost, you can save it as an image. My Linux media server is setup to play those .iso or .img files as if they were physical CD drives. Some argue that this is even better than a real CD because of the lack (or reduction) in jitter. That's splitting too many hairs for me. It just sounds the same to me. Only problem there is that it is tough to add those into most computer music library programs. I use MythTV in my Linux media server and it does a fairly decent job. Of course, when you play music through a computer it introduces a whole bunch of new arguments such as whether your sound card is as good as the DACs in even the most average CD player or processor, and whether the sound format (or the drivers that you use) faithfully reproduce the sound. In my case, I use an Outlaw 990 preamp/processor which has a USB input that my computer recognizes as an external sound card. All my media server does is decode and send a bitstream to the Outlaw 990 which processes that stream via the same 194 kHz 24-bit DACs that it uses for the CD and DVD inputs. Also, some universal DVD players (such as my Oppo) will play just about any digital media you will throw at them. I can plug my external USB hard drive right to my DVD player and it will play most formats that I use. I hope that helps. Nice hearing from you. Tell everyone I said hi. Take care, Nelson"

garcianc has an extensive FLAC/Lossless library. I'll send him this thread via email & maybe he can chime in...

Dipole = one driver open on both sides. Bipole = two drivers firing in opposite directions. Does that about cover it?

The question isn't whether you did or didn't cheat, it's WHY you felt you had to explain yourself... :-#

Yep; that's a DEAD giveaway! :dd :dd :dd

Yep; I've heard of them but never HEARD one...

I won't keep you in suspense any longer: Lansing Manufacturing Shearer Horn Model 75W5 http://www.audioheritage.org/html/profiles/lmco/shearer.htm

Similar, but preceded the VOTT; it won a technical achievement award at the 1936 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ceremony....

Can you?

That has yet to be determined. I have an SMS-1 to play with; if phase adjustment isn't enough I have a Rane digital delay to put in-line as well. Unfortunately, the TGP-IV I have doesn't have separate adjustments for mains distance and sub distance. The TG-IV DOES have separate adjustments for the R/L mains distance. It has no adjustment whatsoever for the sub except volume.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ele/1212294751.html

4 albums (waiting as present to my son), and about 700 CD/SACDs.

yeah; that's an old one....

Nope, same 'ole amount of "full of it"...