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| Why Don't More People Love Audio? There's sort of two questions here: (1) why isn't high end audio a status symbol and (2) why don't more people love high end audio. With regards to (1), a lot has to do with the perceived technical nature of the audiophile hobby, which implicit me... | |
| Favorite Christmas Song & Album. Gee, and I thought my wife went nuts for Christmas music... anyways, Chicago's Christmas album is one of my favorites. | |
| Power Chords and Line Conditioning Gmorris -- interesting point. Your comments got me thinking: An electret capacitor is made by charging a capacitor and subjecting the dielectric to a high enough temperature to allow the molecules to align with the static EM field. After cooling t... | |
| Power Chords and Line Conditioning Break-in "allow(s) the electrons to align"? Would someone explain this in terms of known physcal laws, please? | |
| Digital vs Optical for DVD player A point to ponder: If you believe it makes a difference, it will... | |
| what's the most vital cable in a system? All of the cables are vital 'cuz the system won't work without them :-) Out of curiosity, what is the rationale for the interconnect from preamp to amp being the more important than the interconnect from source component to preamp? When I upgrade ... | |
| Ultimate Question Until I can reach the point and listen to live, well-produced, music and say to myself "hey, that sounds and feels and moves me just like my system", there's more work to do on the system. The interesting thing about audio is that every time I mak... | |
| Solution for TV between speakers? I have similar situation. It helped to pull the speakers as far as possible forward into the room and to move a far apart as you can while maintaining good imaging. I also bought a Tact RCS 2.0 room correction processor and that made a significant... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? The Levinson DAC provides SPDIF, AES/EBU, and Toslink input (and ATT, I believe) interfaces. It does not support other "custom" interfaces such as I2ES, which attempt to deliver accurate, jitter-free clock signals to the DAC. Problems with the tra... | |
| Is Bigger Better? Yes. Submit. Also, keep in mind these corollaries: (1) if it costs more, it's better. (e.g., "I suppose Revel Ultima Salons are OK if you want to listen to the radio in the kitchen and you don't mind your ears bleeding after a couple of hours, but... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Geez... sorry for the brain fart in my posting above. 1/4 of a cycle is 90 degrees of phase, not 45. Try visualizing a sine wave that's sampled 8 times per cycle and rebuilt using 8 stair steps. Now suppose that some of the stairsteps risers come ... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Hi, I've been away for a while, but have been watching the pot bubble on this topic. Let's talk about jitter. Jitter is not a harmonic distortion. It is a clock timing error that introduces an effect called phase noise either when a signal is samp... | |
| Is it ok to leave the amp on? The advice Dave Belles gives is identical to advice I received from Mondial designs concerning their Aragon 8008BB 200 W/ch power amplifier: turn it off when not in use, it's better from a reliability standpoint, it's better from a power transient... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? bmpnyc... no offense taken. If there's a physical effect, then there's a physical cause. If there's no physical cause, there can be no physical effect. Those of us with the scientific mindset seek to comprehend the linkage. Understanding the linka... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I'm not denying reality, just looking for plausible explanations of it, and pointing out that existence of a plausible explanation (other than placebo effect) means that our beloved audio equipment has design deficiencies. Consider the case of dig... |