complaint. OTOH, the system is fronted by a six year old £250 Sony CDP-715E CD player, which sounds as good as anything else I've had in the system. >3) Would anyone be interested in putting together their ideal amplifier/CD >player/loudspeaker combinations...

discs will be played back on my fine-quality audio system (Arcam, Audio Physic, etc.). Since I'm using full-blown AIFF files (that is, no compression like MP3s), will the sound quality on the home-made disc exactly match the original store-bought disc?...

Choosing Card for Image Quality. When I built my new system a few months ago, I spent more time choosing a graphics card than any other component. The reason was that I wanted the best possible image quality for my system but couldn't care less about playing...

8600GT) but found the quality is bad (specially in games) is this because of the s-video ? if I used the RGB output (the one used in CRT) as my TV supports it, will I get good quality ?! System: P4 3 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Win XP SP3 , 8600GT 512MB. Hello I...

quality of the sound when using your CD player, it's likely the quality of your speakers, especially if they're bookshelf speakers because the woofer in a bookshelf will always be smaller. To enhance the quality of your sound on this system, the first thing...

that you listened to your friend's system, containing a Naim CDX2, and it sounded wonderful? Or did they bring it to your house and you swapped it with the Rotel? I'm asking these questions because the difference in sound quality between CD players...

even less resolution because of excessive surface noise. Whether one likes analog or digital is a matter of preference, and there are factors like the quality of the mastering that can be most important in determining the resulting quality of a record,...

Source units affect sound?. Archived from groups: rec.audio.high-end () I've noticed a thread here where there seems to be some argument over how a source unit, such as a CD player, can affect the output quality of your system. I've sold audio equipment...

speakers with large dipole radiators, my Apogees are not going to sound anything like your Prodigys, since they are in entirely different rooms. Understanding such basics is *essential* to advancing the overall sound quality of your system. -- Stewart...

Audio quackwatch. Archived from groups: rec.audio.high-end () I wonder if perhaps this can be an ongoing thread, where we post examples we find online or in the print media, of particularly egregious examples of audio mythology passed off as fact, by 'experts....