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| As system improves, do bad recordings sound worse? Hi Bryon,Here is another thread on essentially the same question. Quoting from therein:(The question, posed by MrTennis): It is my hypothesis that greater resolution, while possibly "improving" the sound of well-recorded cds, makes poor recordings... | |
| What is meant by a "fast" pre amp Tom -- While I think that the term "crisper" can correctly be used to describe what is meant by "fast," Johnnyb53 is also correct when he says that "fast components have sharper transients and generally more space between the notes and therefore m... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? This explanation is looking more and more likely. I hope I have not been wasting everyone's time with what is nothing more than a psychological phenomenon!The thread strikes me as having been a very worthwhile intellectual exercise, with the thoug... | |
| Overseas Pay Pal, your experiences. Hi Stan,You may already be aware of this, but for the benefit of anyone who isn't I'll mention that under absolutely no circumstances should you or anyone else deal with an individual overseas buyer who offers to pay you (or actually does pay you)... | |
| Any experience with Y-interconnects? Hi Ozzy,No problem at all in your situation. My statement about the capacitance of the cable to the sub affecting the signal to the main power amp applies only to the situation where either a y-adapter is used off of a single output of the preamp,... | |
| What is meant by a "fast" pre amp What about the overshoot? Does that mean it's too fast?Hi Bob,It could reflect a number of things, including a frequency response rise at high frequencies; less than ideal "compensation" for stray capacitances that may be present in the circuit or... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality ArenÂt the File Allocation Tables written & rewritten as they are accessed such as a log of sorts?Jim -- I think you might be referring to the fact that FAT32, NTFS, and many other file systems store information about when each file was creat... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Kijanki: Fat32 is garbage. Using non-journaled format is asking for a disaster.Excellent point. One way in which such a disaster could happen is if power were to drop out at exactly the wrong moment. The file table could be corrupted, resulting in... | |
| Any experience with Y-interconnects? Two points:1)It looks like the Ayon has both rca and xlr outputs, with a switch to select which one is used (so apparently you cannot use both simultaneously). I assume you'll want to use the xlr outputs, since your Rowland amp and the sub both ha... | |
| HiFi tuning fuses, some benefits help Way back when, Peter Aczel from the Audio Critic(before the 10 great audio lies)in about 1980,he suggested that speakers which has fuses, actually sounded better if you bypassed them altogether.So chalk one up for those who feel fuses do have an i... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Hi Kirk,Thanks for your characteristically knowledgeable response.However, I think you may have misread or misinterpreted some of the earlier posts. As I understand it, Bryon has done nothing internally within the speakers. All he has done is to i... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? I was saying the two drivers housed inside each box speaker are wired out of phase with respect to one another. Yes, that's correct, Jim. That is done intentionally in some speaker designs, and as I said in my previous post I believe it is necessa... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Hi Bryon,I agree completely with everything in your preceding post.Assuming that the improvement I experienced really is constant across all recordings, regardless of their polarity, then surely we are right to conclude, as you and I both have, th... | |
| Dynamic Headroom A much larger power supply is required to add headroom to an amplifier and the power supply is where the money is. Although as I indicated earlier, headroom can also be "added" by subtraction. Either by underspecifying the continuous power capabil... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Perhaps it is Folie à deux!LOL!I wonder if it has something to do with how the sound from the tweeter and woofer "sums" at a particular listening distance. Does your room contain many highly reflective surfaces? If so, from looking at the Stereoph... |