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| Interconnects Roller Coaster Ride Regarding line voltage, there is no way I personally know of for testing that. But I have noticed a halogen lamp in my adjacent room cycling in brightness for periods of time some evenings while I am listening. Would that be an indication of line ... | |
| Tonearm cartridge wires question I agree with Pops. In general having two conductors carrying a given signal in close proximity with each other, and perhaps also in close proximity with two conductors carrying a different signal (in this case, the one for the other channel), can ... | |
| Cables for biwiring Nik, thanks for providing the additional background. Pet theories abound for the claimed superiority of different approaches to cable design and configuration. Most of them lack one basic thing: Analysis and/or experimental evidence establishing t... | |
| Modern High end vs. old receiver Btw, you did say the inverse is also true. I'm a bit confused now as to what you were referring to there.My original statement: "A point to keep in mind is that the better the quality of the source MATERIAL, the more apparent hardware differences ... | |
| Modern High end vs. old receiver That's interesting, Peter (Csontos), and somewhat surprising to me. I don't make any special claims for my hearing, but it has always been my experience that if a garbage recording is reproduced as Garbage A by one component, and as Garbage B by a... | |
| Modern High end vs. old receiver A point to keep in mind is that the better the quality of the source MATERIAL, the more apparent hardware differences will become, at least upon direct comparison. The inverse, of course, is also true.Don't know how relevant that may be in this ca... | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? Hi Lynne,Here is a link to the other thread you are referring to. Everything in your post above sounds reasonable to me.Best,-- Al | |
| Cables for biwiring Why should we disagree that a specific approach to the wires may also be reasonable. From a technical standpoint, I see nothing unreasonable about this approach. However, I also see nothing unreasonable about a great many other possible approaches... | |
| Interconnects Roller Coaster Ride Just curious, but what leads you to conclude that the Morrows are responsible for the fluctuations you are perceiving? How do you know that it is not something in one of your components, such as tubes, or fluctuations in AC line voltage or noise c... | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? Lynne, if you haven't already, take a look at the figures shown in the Wikipedia writeup I linked to earlier for Biphase Mark/Differential Manchester Encoding, Biphase Mark (shown in the second figure) being the encoding method used for S/PDIF. Th... | |
| How to wire my REL T7 to Audioengine A5's Couldn't find any info on a model A1 DAC, and I presume the DAC is not the currently manufactured D1 model, since that doesn't have a coaxial S/PDIF input.In any event, I would assume that the DAC doesn't provide two pairs of independently buffere... | |
| How to wire my REL T7 to Audioengine A5's Ideally you would want to connect the Speakon cable to both output channels of the power amplifier, which the sub would then sum together. However, since the power amplifier of the A5 is built in to the left speaker, there is no means of accessing... | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? Hi Lynne,Perhaps surprisingly, the 5 ft/1.5 meter length suggestion is not a myth. See Steve's paper here, which makes sense to me, and is also supported by experimental results that have been reported by some A'gon members I consider to be credib... | |
| What's your view on blind testing? I am in essential agreement with most of what has been said above.I want to add, though, that I take exception to what seems to be a not uncommon tendency to segregate audiophiles into one or the other of the two opposing groups you referred to. T... | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? Thanks, Steve.I would add to your comment, though, the clarification that the 1's and 0's that are referred to in your definition are NOT the same thing as the 1's and 0's which constitute the audio data that may be communicated via S/PDIF or ethe... |