Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Are you an audiophile or a music lover?

2007-11-27 Thread haunyack
bigfool1956;245697 Wrote: > then you get married Cute post. And as it turns out - "married then gets you". . -- haunyack Transporter -> B&K R200.2 -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. (Listening room) SB3 (RWA analog) -> Rotel RB1070 -> B&W Matrix 805. (Bedroom) Fridgidare -> Mirror Pond pale ale

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Are you an audiophile or a music lover?

2007-11-27 Thread bigfool1956
Looking at the original post: Isn't option 1 what happens when you have a great hi-fi and then you get married, and option 2 what you get when you slink off to another room ipod in hand? -- bigfool1956 David Ayers Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Are you an audiophile or a music lover?

2007-11-27 Thread mlsstl
> I have always been perplexed by the commonly-held view that to be a true > music lover you have to have lots of it. In what other field is quantity > regarded as more important than quality? I think it goes hand-in-glove that someone who loves something will tend to accumulate material related

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Personal Introductions: Please Make This a Sticky!

2007-11-27 Thread Gary_C
Hello everyone. Although I've only just registered on the forum I've owned a SB3 for just over a year. My SB3 replaced a PC with a Teratec sound card connected to a Yamaha AV amp. Then began lots of equipment purchases including a Musical Fidelity X-DAC v3, X-CAN v3 and X-PSU followed by a pair of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Posible bug in built-in MP3 decoder - please verify

2007-11-27 Thread mvalera
Moving this to the audiophile forum... Mike -- mvalera Michael Valera Online Communities Manager Logitech Streaming Media Systems slimdevices.com mvalera's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11086 V

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Missing the "oomph"

2007-11-27 Thread iPhone
sosleepy;245532 Wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions so far.I use the squeezebox way more than > the CD player, and generally use FLAC as my chosen source, though I > don't discriminate against MP3. Nice way to put it SoSleepy. I have not heard that term used with MP3s! Hope you don't mind bu

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Missing the "oomph"

2007-11-27 Thread darrenyeats
Be very careful about "oomph". If the SB3 had more "oomph" than the CD player, it might be that you'd be saying the CD player had more "subtlety". Everything has two sides: "sparkle" ("harshness"), "warmth" ("boominess"), "clarity" ("overly forward") etc etc. If you've already decided what your r

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Are you an audiophile or a music lover?

2007-11-27 Thread Fifer
cliveb;245556 Wrote: > I have always been perplexed by the commonly-held view that to be a true > music lover you have to have lots of it. In what other field is quantity > regarded as more important than quality? None of any consequence, but I'm not so sure that audio quantity really is regarded

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Are you an audiophile or a music lover?

2007-11-27 Thread cliveb
JJZolx;245508 Wrote: > 1) Have a hi-fi system to die for, but only be able to play on it a > relatively small selection of, say, 300 musical masterpieces, > beautifully recorded and mastered. That's an interesting point of view, and one I have a lot of sympathy for. My music library is about 1200