Another animal joke. A man goes home with a chicken unde his arm. When he gets home his wife is waiting impatiently at the door. The man says, this is the pig I’ve been sleeping with. His wife says, that’s not a pig, you idiot, it’s a chicken! The man says, I wasn’t talking to you.
The Audio Doctor makes a house call
I would like to contribute to the discussion about Dave, the “Audio Doctor.” I live in California but, after many phone conversations and texts where he provided advice about my system with no promise of any return, we decided a trip here from New Jersey would be worthwhile and worked out an arrangement. Dave brought a lot of accessories for me to audition. First, we repositioned my speakers (KEF Reference 5s), which really improved the sound. We tried a DAC (Aqua) to compare with my current Auralic Vega (first generation), wireworld interconnects and several other things. I already had purchased an Innuous Zenith server from Dave and we set that up. Dave was very enthusiastic about my speakers (which he sells but I already had purchased elsewhere) and my electronics (Audio Research amp, pre amp, phono stage) and never suggested buying new ones.
At no point did I feel he was pressuring me or trying to sell me something just to make a sale. My system is definitely sounding better now and I may move ahead with some other improvements he recommended. Of course, Dave is in the audio business and makes his livelihood that way but I think he was genuinely interested in helping me get better sound. I know that some have objected to him and other dealers posting on this board. Personally, I have found his postings very helpful. Those who don’t can always skip over them—no one is forcing you to read anything.
Finally, I met Dave for the first time when he came here and have no connection other than as a recent customer.
At no point did I feel he was pressuring me or trying to sell me something just to make a sale. My system is definitely sounding better now and I may move ahead with some other improvements he recommended. Of course, Dave is in the audio business and makes his livelihood that way but I think he was genuinely interested in helping me get better sound. I know that some have objected to him and other dealers posting on this board. Personally, I have found his postings very helpful. Those who don’t can always skip over them—no one is forcing you to read anything.
Finally, I met Dave for the first time when he came here and have no connection other than as a recent customer.
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tomic601 @geoffkait a careful read of my initial comment says analog and RF. I suspect you might have no experience engineering, testing and building high power satellites for commercial, agency and black program customers. We are not talking RF to RF, although that is not just as simple as frequency management. I stand by my comments about a Farady cage as a good thing. Why is it that folks oft believe they are the only one in the room with some esoteric experience? I was in satellites longer than you, including black programs, so you save the BS. I was in satellite ops at NASA, pre launch, launch and post orbit, milsatcom spread spectrum program and designed the first satcom system for the FAA. What I was trying to say is whatever the RF situation is in space it’s orders of magnitude worse here on earth. have you moved your wall warts yet ? Yuk, yuk. That was so funny I almost forgot to laugh. |
tomic6011,552 posts11-20-2018 12:53am @geoffkait Well since you can just teleport up there to control the gizmo you would of course be unfamiliar with RF uplinks and RF downlink and of course in the case of things like XM radio enough EIRP to cover most of North America.... but yes space junk can ruin a good day. So you’re proposing shielding the satellite from the very signals it requires to function? That doesn’t sound like a very good idea. The satellite signals are very directional so there are no other radio signals to worry about. Even the uplink and downlink frequencies for each satellite are separated for that very reason, so as not to interfere. As are all satellite uplinks and downlinks separated from each other in frequency. Spectrum management. There is no significant threat from space junk even though there is an enormous amount of it. Only in the movies. Ta, ta! |
get all the digital junk wall warts, computer chips, etc plugged into a dedicated conditioning device...Furman makes affordable stuff. start w DAC plugged in there, unless it has a faraday cage or competent RF management ( I used to build satellites.....few few audio engineers appreciate RF....and the havok it does to low power analog... >>>>>That’s weird. I didn’t know satellites were susceptible to RF. You know, being up to 26,000 miles above the Earth. I know they are susceptible to micro meteors. I had one of my satellites at NASA hit by one. |
In Audiotroy’s defense most people here have no idea what those acoustic devices he mentioned even are. That’s why it’s important for the survival of the species, you know, to avoid getting too inbred, to allow free flow of information from within and without, to get some relief from the “collegial exchange of thoughts, ideas, experiences with fellow well-meaning Goners.” |