New decade, end of the CD?

^ that's not what I was referring/meant to, but nevermind.

Catcher10 wrote: Well if I follow your previous post...its gonna be 30-40 years before we see current equipment used to its full potential by current operators? Meaning we should expect "not the best" results in the recording industry right now?   Sorry, I am not an electrical engineer or sound engineer.....I'm a wood products guy that likes good music that's all. As usual appreciate your comments sir!

^ Thanks for pointing this out - I indeed meant primarily mastering in this case, although some albums also end up getting remixed for a remaster. 

Very nice article about the extreme necessity of buying 20000 dollar speaker wire and 500 dollar power cords...




(By the way, don't tell anybody but I sell 500 dollar hdmi cables and 200 dollar speaker wire as part of my job...

That articles basically confirms all the things I already suspected. 

A related story:

Buzz off! Noisy device drives away teens - World news - Weird ...

^ 1,000 years!! I just need it to last till December 2012...after that will not matter anymore.

Yes i had a realy great sound experience..As well with the sound system at home as with the portable system in the garden...I 've never heard any music that way before, it was kind of first experience with the headphone when i was a teen, but far better of course, i mean i could see a sonic picture with each instrument and sound at its own place.I guess not a lot of poeple listen to music that way but it's the way it should be....And of course Oliverstoned only played me great albums extracts...Today i can answer Hendrix question...Are you experienced? Yes i've been....And i think it's good to meet a Hi Fi guru like Oliverstoned because it helps to improve our own sound system and to hear music like it shoud be heard, very impressive.....

Dean wrote: Affidavits are unnecessary. I have said before (when Oliver offered to let me listen to his portable set up if I journeyed to Paris), I'm sure his system sounds wonderful.   That isn't the point Mike and I are making - I believe his system sounded just as good "out-of-the-box", without the superfluous audiophilist modifications and tweaks, without the expensive cabling and redundant anti-vibration additions.   "Pushing Walls" just means loud, and that is a testament to the Loudspeakers and their designer, not to the amp or any cabling or any tweaking a home-based amateur does after purchasing them - any power amp can make speakers sound loud using any cable you care to buy, it's the ability of the speakers themselves to handle that power across the audio spectrum at significant volume without distortion or inducing other audio artifacts that determines the capability of a system to "push walls".   Similarly his portable set-up would sound just as good without the ALO interconnect and it would sound just as good without the Red Wine *modification* to the iPlod - where he has improved it is by adding the external Headphone Amp so that it can drive his HD25-1's (because a iPlod cannot drive 65ohms even with the Red Wine modification). And here the make and construction of the headphone amp is immaterial, it just needs to be designed to drive medium impedance headphones adequately, and the simplest home-construction headphone amp will do that for a fraction of the price of the RSA Mustang P51     ...out of interest, the Grado RA1 headphone amp that retails for £400 in the UK is made from £5 worth of average quality components and can be built into an empty tic-tac box - what you are paying for is the name and a badly made mahogany box. Similarly I can build a copy of the Mustang P51 out of the components in my junk box that would sound exactly the same as the $250 RSA version - it just wouldn't look as nice because I can't make the pretty anodised aluminium case on my kitchen table.

The T wrote: I want Oliver, our audiophile-in-campus, to tell me with all honesty, lest lightning might fall on his pushing-walls system, if he has used audiophile tweaks like the legendary green marker for cds or the volume knobs or the cable lifters/raisers. I want to hear it from somebody that has actually bought such............. devices.

I know it's hard to belive, but when a system really works, very litlle modifications affect the sound.

So, i've tried the green marker but the improvment is very subbtle but real. I prefer using a CD demagnetizer which is more efficient and convenient (and works for all cables and contacts as well).

The cable's lifting works but instead i use free bullpack under my cables and it indeed works, subbtle but real improvment. IMO the explanation is that it avoid extra vibration on contacts at the cable's end, but i'm not sure.

Not sure what you allude to with the volume knob?


Another thing i want to point out is the classic argument about room acoustic being a limitative factor:

"It's useless to invest on big hifi becausey ou're limited by the room".
Jean marie heard that my system was going very deep, fast and clean in the lows and the room (which is normal) stands it so it isn't a problem at all. Better a good system in a bad room than the reverse.