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Best floorstanding speakers 2020: budget to premium
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When I read the article it included the Prodigy 5. Must have been added in the 2025 update.
Jan 29, 2025
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Exactly what I've thought for years. Vinyl lovers prefer the flat, inoffensive low res sound of vinyl. They don't seem to appreciate the...
Jan 17, 2025
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Absolutely! The only good vinyl record would be one that's never been played. Just one play and there's wear. --- The very first cd I...
Jan 17, 2025
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Not at all. I was around at the move from vinyl to CD in the eighties and it was a revelation, especially as discs went from AAD to DDD...
Jan 17, 2025
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Well, that makes three of us that don't see (hear) the emperors clothes.
Jan 17, 2025
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I totally agree with you that cd sounds better than vinyl, which is incredibly overrated! And I grew up with it in the 60s & 70s! Cd...
Jan 17, 2025
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Well said sir. However, until recently I was still using my 1986 Philips CD650 with 16bit DAC and I always noticed crackling during Phil...
Jan 17, 2025
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I've questioned whether new HIFI is better than the older stuff. CD does sound better than vinyl and I think the vinyl revival is just...
Jan 17, 2025
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Based upon the deposits, doesn't look like water corrosion alone to me. More like saltwater or some other highly corrosive substance is...
Jan 6, 2025
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Fell Audio is a new hi-fi brand that aims to entice hi-fi fans with affordable, British-made separates
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It has Pre-out which perhaps could be used for this purpose, but of course would be variable unless there are settings for fixed output.
Nov 11, 2024
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Fell Audio is a new hi-fi brand that aims to entice hi-fi fans with affordable, British-made separates
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Very forward thinking, having capability to drive a sub via a pre-out. There's lots of so called high end manufacturers that don't have...
Nov 11, 2024
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