High-End Audio Sucks

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Ishkabibil, I discovered the high end in 1990, when I walked into a high end salon, and my life changed dramatically after that. I spent so much time in "high end salons" that my wife swore I was seeing another woman. I had to verify for myself, the validity of Stereophile's rating system; Class "A", B, C, etc. Yes it's valid.

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The audio industry has lost so many consumers at the low end – it used to be that most people had a stereo system in their homes; now they are satisfied with Bluetooth speakers – that it is trying to convince everyone, not just luxury hi …

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Back in the “golden age” of high-end audio hardly a month went by that you couldn’t find and read a negative review in The Absolute Sound or Stereophile which excoriated a particular manufacturer’s newest offering. Nowadays it’s hard to find an equipment review that doesn’t describe its subject in glowing terms.

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to midfi equipment. I have had similar experiences with $6000 pieces. of gear from highend firms. My impression of Carver is that they are attempting to produce highend. sound from reasonably priced gear. This can be a tough trick to pull off. Usually it requires the use of inexpensive parts and, in fact, most of the.

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Gaming audio and you. Why (99.5% of) gaming headsets suck, and how you can enter the world of high fidelity sound on a gaming headset budget! ... For the price of a high end sound card, you could either be getting a high quality external audio processing solution in the form of a DAC/amp combo, an external sound card, a set of quality stereo ...

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I agree that the goal of a true high end audio system is to recreate the source at the highest level to sound like live music. The problem is that recorded music is so processed that even if you have the best source LPs or CDs on the best source equipment and the best preamp and power amp and the best speakers set up perfectly in your listening ...

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Muddiness [lack of clarity] and the in-ability to generate tight bass [bass overhang and untamable bass] are a few among many other often-seen negative affects of vibrations on the sound of your gear. Please feel free to send links to any manufacturers of high-end audio equipment racks that we have missed. Updated August, 2014.

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#7 Magneplanar 1-U/1-D Magnepan invented the planar magnetic driver as an alternative to electrostatics like the KLH. A few other brands may use this type of driver, but Magnepan has had such a lock on this market for so long that the others are hard to remember.

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