ahofer
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| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? The reality is, if we all, the audiophile community, heard no differences, wouldn’t the high priced gear go bye bye, or, just 1 or 2 manufacturers would be left for all of us ?I'm not sure. First of all, we'd have to concede we don't hear differen... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Feel free to augment or quibble, but I would call an "objectively audible difference" between amplifiers as follows: when the equipment is gain-matched to be sure the difference is not simply due to different overall volume levels, listeners ca... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? @geoffkait - I view it as more of a probabilistic inference, but I'll happily grant your point if it helps turn the dialogue in a more productive direction. | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Teo, it's an appeal to authority because it isn't backed up with any evidence or answer, merely assertion about talent/credentials. Your response reduces to an irrelevant and incomplete assertion of what ears do (even if we stipulated that, it wo... | |
| Thiel Owners If anyone wants my CS3.6s, please let me know, I'm going to let them go. The right tweeter needs to be rebuilt. My plan was to send it off to Coherent, but if someone wants them as is, I'd be happy to see them go somewhere to be loved as I loved ... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Well, I may have "peed my pants" but I know an empty argument to authority when I see one.. | |
| Harbeth Super HL5+...thoughts I’ve said so elsewhere, but let me add my rave review. Boxy, counterintuitive, little anomalies, they are. Looking at them I expected a Rogers or KLH kind of sound, familiar from many decades ago. But they sound *nothing* like that.I have the Supe... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? @mrdecibel My interest in this is about the tension between my subjective and objective self, really. I’ve enjoyed the equipment I’ve owned (although I don’t upgrade nearly as much as the average audiophile) and that’s enough for me. Unfortunately... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? @maplegrovemusic yes, I read through all of that some time ago. He claims to have gone 7/8 and 8/8 on other comparisons, but I don't think he bothered to have it witnessed, did he? That suspicion aside, I admire his willingness to execute the te... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? @mrdecibel What a strange request! I don't know him any better than you, but he's quite available in those forums. Sounds like you aren't completely serious. Set it up yourself.I'll do you one better - I'll bet you another grand ($1000) even o... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Excellent. Let us all know how it goes! In fact, if you do succeed, it will certainly be worth a write-up in the audio publication of your choosing. | |
| Most important technical aspects of speaker wires? Capacitance, inductance, etc... Some shops will let you borrow a length of cable, and I believe even some online vendors will do that for a fee that can be credited against purchase.Just be open to the possibility that the difference is too small to pick out reliably, and that t... | |
| ethernet from a power outlet I use it at home (granted, I'm in an apartment), and have a very reliable 80mb throughput. No noise issues that I can discern. Has to be on the same breaker box. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTNKNPZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=... | |
| Looking for great jazz guitar recordings - any recommendations? Benson's early jazz recordings with verve, and his "Sunday Afternoon" recordings. Imaginative and technically brilliant.Pat Martino!! Any of it, but particularly pre-accident. "Exit". DIstinctive chromatic soloing.Joe Pass "Virtuoso" albums. Ca... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Alan Shaw would say there is very little new in amplifiers. Indeed, amplification technology is widely used and optimized for many purposes, not just audio, and is more or less a "solved" problem. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, thi... |