are you any audiophiles?

[musical marv]

Are you any audiophiles that belong to this web site?

 

[boju]

There'd be, but here would be more appropriate: http://www.avsforum.com/

 

[4Ryan6]

Are you any audiophiles that belong to this web site?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=audiophile

Isn't this a violation of the new G.R.A.P.E.S. policy Marv! ROFL :lol:

OK seriously!

To what degree do you even class someone as an audiophile Marv?

What I mean is, some relate the audio experience to specific hardware, like some believe there is no better sound than the old Tube Amps produced, and I have to agree there to some extent, they are awesome sound reproductions, at least that I've heard.

Some are stuck on nothing but old vinyl saying there is no truer sound reproduction, personally I like CDs as they're minus scratching and such as that.

I ran into some opposition when I first started my computer run DJ setup, as in the beginning to save HDD space I was running MP3 format, and now I'm running an enhanced MP3 conversion which sounds much better and doesn't require too much HDD space.

To even be a computer DJ you have to have backup everything!

And that gets very expensive!

Sound recording formats like lossless are great audiophile wise but require massive HDD storage because of the file size, of course today we have much larger HDD storage than we did when I started my DJ adventure even at that my data base far exceeds 20,000 songs.

So what do you qualify as actual audiophile?

 

[musical marv]

Are you any audiophiles that belong to this web site?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=audiophile

Isn't this a violation of the new G.R.A.P.E.S. policy Marv! ROFL :lol:

OK seriously!

To what degree do you even class someone as an audiophile Marv?

What I mean is, some relate the audio experience to specific hardware, like some believe there is no better sound than the old Tube Amps produced, and I have to agree there to some extent, they are awesome sound reproductions, at least that I've heard.

Some are stuck on nothing but old vinyl saying there is no truer sound reproduction, personally I like CDs as they're minus scratching and such as that.

I ran into some opposition when I first started my computer run DJ setup, as in the beginning to save HDD space I was running MP3 format, and now I'm running an enhanced MP3 conversion which sounds much better and doesn't require too much HDD space.

To even be a computer DJ you have to have backup everything!

And that gets very expensive!

Sound recording formats like lossless are great audiophile wise but require massive HDD storage because of the file size, of course today we have much larger HDD storage than we did when I started my DJ adventure even at that my data base far exceeds 20,000 songs.

So what do you qualify as actual audiophile?

Someone who is into high end audio equipment and a real pure music lover.

 

[4Ryan6]

Someone who is into high end audio equipment and a real pure music lover.

For DJ purposes you cannot host an event with crappy equipment, but in most cases I play back at a higher volume than you'd listen to in your living room, especially an outside event in the open.

I prefer the rock solid bass punch over the booming bass, and I'm fanatical about crystal clear sound, no fuzziness, crackling or crap like that, that's probably not what you would class as audiophile, but it works for me.

No offense but no one has ever requested to hear Mozart or Beethoven, so I have zero idea what classical even sounds like through my setup. (But I might have to give it a listen next time I'm setup?)

I play mostly classic rock, beach music, country, and wedding music.

My gaming computer has a killer sound system, it is also the computer I encode my music data base.

I'm just running my mouth, (well fingers typing), did you have a good Thanksgiving?

I as usual, ate too much! and was miserable afterwards! The food was good though!

 

[Irapotato]

I actually do professional level music production and engineering, and even I wouldn't call myself an 'audiophile'. To me an audiophile is someone who is obsessed with the sound characteristics of one or two sets of speakers, i can still listen to music on crappy speakers and enjoy it a good bit. I'm more about audio bitrate and compression quality than any one piece of gear like an A/D C or a set of $8500 monitors.

 

[boju]

Audiophile is about the walls, no good having expensive gear if the walls vibrate.

I have a friend who wants an AVR and Amplifier to be separate, apparently to guarantee wattage output and clarity. That's all well and said but audio equipment like that is expensive and needs to be properly situated like sound proofed walls and nothing to distort the sound.

Dig a bunker in the ground i said and then probably you'll hear a difference.