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    Frequently Misspelled audiophile terms

    What about audiophiles selling their gear because they are immigrating?
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    Frequently Misspelled audiophile terms

    This one is pronunciation, rather than spelling: Dyna Audio for Dynaudio. And then there's me misreading Visaton as Visation, until someone spoke the brand name in a conversation.
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    Best of Best Of albums

    I have been listening to my small CD collection in my car, which has a CD changer. A delightful discovery is the very good songs to be found on some "Best Of" -type albums. I have only a few; please share your favourites. The Best Of... OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark): The Best Of OMD...
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    REW Measurements of AlleyCat's Room- Take 2

    Allan, I'm very much impressed with your latest approach. In the past, you put a lot of value on rule-of-thumb and generalised knowledge of the audiophile dignitaries. Not that they are wrong, or that it was wrong to do so, but it is a major leap to go from using established practice/general...
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    REW Measurements of AlleyCat's Room

    Allan, what happened to your SPL scale? The first set of measurements seemed to have absolute (or close to absolute) figures. I would expect the UMIK-1 to give absolute SPL but, in the even that it doesn't, you should still be able to set it up in REW with the help of your SPL meter. (As an...
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    Listening Level (dB and Room size)

    I fully agree. It is a pity that many audiophiles are averse to audio measurement. Some are even measurement un-believers. However, I feel that what has been missing until recently is the link between measurement and subjective perception. Enter one of my favourite YouTube channels: Erin's...
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    Listening Level (dB and Room size)

    ...and I'd like to iterate copy-post this: I don't know if my fellow Cape Town HiFi Club members have picked this up, but our regular meeting venue - Andrew's Place - presents a challenge: it is a deceptively large volumetric space. And many a speaker has topped out there. Otherwise nice...
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    Replacing RCA connectors

    This is what I meant.
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    Replacing RCA connectors

    You could simply replace the RCAs. A repair is another option if the current RCAs are not molded.
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    FdlSys - Sad news

    A profound loss to our community. Condolences to those close to him. Will cherish the private convos. He was one of the good ones.
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    Class D explained

    Thanks. Some time ago a forum upgrade caused all the threads to be renamed. Many links got broken. But too many to try and fix.
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    Chromecast Tidal app - Loudness fluctuations

    I have seen multiple results for the same song come up. I suspect that each instance of the song comes from a different source. Presumably, this means that they come from different albums or different editions of the same album. There's the "Remastered" phenomenon that could mean anything, but...
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    What An Audiophile!

    There's no rule that says if you agree with a post you have to say so! 😉
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    The Cape Town Hi-Fi Club

    Andrew's speakers have good dynamic range. I have yet to hear them overload.
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    The Cape Town Hi-Fi Club

    Sorry I couldn't join you. Looks like you had an interesting choice of speakers, too.
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