Continuing the talk of the problems with over-compression of recorded music, I came across this article:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5429

I just purchased Suzanne Vega's Beauty & Crime. I almost lost my hearing when it started up with my amp at its normal volume level! I can't even listen to it all the way through in one siting without getting fatigued. Same with Carly Simon's Moonlight Serenade. Good music, but ruined by the engineer. Geeez, when will this stop?

Bob

Only about 8 days till the return of DUP.
Should we have a celebration?

I hope, DUP, you come back in all your former glory. Don't let teh ban subdue you.
I miss those snake oil alerts and I almost had to buy some AVA gear just to remind me you still exist:-)

Please continue to PO those sensitive souls who who so vociferously complained about you, it is their problem, not your's.

Teh forum has been decidedly more boring in your abscence.

I almost bought some expensive cable without your constant reminders of the waste that entails.

Wasn't sure if this was an "Analog" or "Rock" forum thing, but...

Mobile Fidelity is going to release a re-master of Little Feat's first LP.

I never thought the sound quality was all that with the original, so I'm wondering how the Mo Fi re-issues will sound.

To keep this more in the "Analog" realm...

Anybody know what turntable/arm/cartridge they are using to evaluate their pressings?

I've gotten lots of good advice re. my Spica TC-50s. I moved into my modest new house a year ago. The layout of my living room doesn't permit me to center the equipment between the speakers and my Kimber speaker cable is about 3 feet short of one speaker now that my equipment is offset from the speakers.

Here's the question:

Do you recommend a long run of ICs from the pre-amp to the amp, with a short run between the speakers, or do you recommend a longer run of speaker cable and just leave my amp connected to my pre-amp via my 1 meter pair of Kimber PBJs?

Hola,

As long as we have this cool Entry Level Forum, I thought I'd try to make a thread for a commonly asked question: Which "budget turntable?"

Since Stereophile can't review EVERY entry at this price point, I thought I'd start things out with a list of turntable at about that price point that I've heard, and maybe other people can add to it as a resource for future "new shoppers!"

I'll try to stick to tables with arms included for now...

I admit to being a semi-convinced skeptic when it comes to cables and interconnects; I can readily hear differences between cables and interconnects even though part of me does not want to admit that this is possible.

Yet, I am a holdout on the concept of special subwoofer interconnects. I have a nice flexible Monoprice RCA terminated interconnect that seems to do fine. But if this can be improved upon in an audible way I am interested.