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| What do you void listening? 04-24-14: SchubertOne day coming in from a hard patrol in Vietnam I heard the great Swedish tenor Jussi Borling sing the "Un bel Di" aria from Madam Butterfly on short-wave from Australia, it froze me like a deer in the headlights.Schubert, are yo... | |
| Spliting TaraLabs Bi-wire Cables to Use Two Posts The only reason I can envision for why there might be a difference between having the two runs connected together at the amp end within the cable vs. within the amp (between the two sets of binding posts) are possible differences in contact integr... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Brownsfan, great job recounting all of this experience, which will undoubtedly prove invaluable to many others in the future.You might find this discussion of sonic differences between various lossless formats to be of interest. **NOT** because I ... | |
| Not asking the best.... Hi Dave,My favorite would have to be the long instrumental segment in the full (7 minute) version of the Doors' "Light My Fire". The highlight, IMO, being the keyboard work of the late Ray Manzarek.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Speaker cable recommendations As a point of information, the roughly 7 percent or so difference in resistivity and conductivity between silver and copper can be way more than compensated for by going just one gauge size larger in copper. It can also be compensated for by makin... | |
| Multicore CPUs: Any risk to audio quality? Michael, thanks for your inputs.A key question I would have concerning the choice between multi-booting and using a virtual machine, to which I don't know the answer, is whether an existing image of a base (non-VM) OS installation can be restored ... | |
| Are HDMI cables hot swapable? As Kijanki indicated, HDMI is supposed to be hot swappable. However, there appears to be significant anecdotal evidence that can be found on the net suggesting that not all designs are implemented as they should be. The result in some cases being ... | |
| Truly weird Rega transport issue. Sounds like the waveform being supplied by the digital output stage of the Planet is distorted or messed up in some way, possibly as a result of its impedance being severely mismatched relative to the 75 ohm standard. That could conceivably be the... | |
| Multicore CPUs: Any risk to audio quality? 04-18-14: BillbartuskaThings you should be looking into:... Windows Server 2012 R2. Stripping out the OS will noticeably improve SQ (while reducing functionality). If you're going to use the computer for playback, everyday usage/editing you may wa... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers Bruce (Bifwynne), thanks for your witty posts. IMO you're right :-)Personally I've never followed any kind of formula. I just do a lot of research and as much listening as possible, and buy when a component that fits my financial comfort zone part... | |
| Order of importance of cables I suspect that there will be no consensus in the responses which will follow. IMO what can be said with reasonable confidence is as follows:1)Speaker cables will assume increased importance if speaker impedance is low, and if cable length is long.... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers Fair enough, Noromance. Your well stated and carefully qualified last post is certainly a reasonable position.As you appear to realize, my main reason for posting was that on many occasions over the years I have seen the fact that the source is lo... | |
| Do Jumpers make an audible difference? What I wonder is how many of those who have experienced significant sonic improvements by upgrading jumpers have gone back and forth two or three or more times between the original and upgraded jumpers, to verify that the improvement was not simpl... | |
| L Pad Control ruin sound quality??? What you were told is essentially correct. Although it is always possible that a solution which is technically non-optimal may happen to be subjectively acceptable, or even preferable, by compensating for other issues. But I wouldn't recommend goi... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers ... on a vinyl rig, where you want to hear the horsehairs snap on a bow and the tears in the voice of a treble, I would spend the most on the turntable, then amp, then speakers. Most people don't understand that you cannot get back the detail lost... |