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| Buying advice Arcam can sound somewhat "analytical". Kef probably has a metal dome tweeter. I myself have QED silver cables and they can sound bright. So I can understand your system might have a bright sound to it. Honestly I am not sure a $60 pair of cabl... | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? I guess it depends on what you meant by "IDENTICAL". If two files are identical, using the same compress format (i.e. wave or flac ...), then for the most part they should sound the same.That is UNLESS, each file comes from a different source, fo... | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? Not sure why the OP made it more complicated than it has to be. Here is the bottom line:1. The DAC is a mix-signal : has to operate in digital and analog domain.2. The DAC needs a clock to clock out the data. The clock ideally has to be clean bu... | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? It always is interesting to see how people resort to simple and basic reasoning in trying to understanding something as complicated as how humans perceive music. | |
| The best tweeter is no tweeter Most AMT will not have a good low frequency response compared to the typical dome tweeter, which means you have to cross them with a rather steep slope - most likely a 4th order slope. Having a high order slope in itself will have its own sound s... | |
| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... With all joking aside, I’m confident that from the listening position, a half dozen strategically placed throw pillows can influence sound more than any speaker wire, no matter how much it costs or which direction the arrows are pointing. It also ... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. Eliminating resistances of the inductors and phase shift and delay of the caps. Nope, you can't eliminate phase shift even with active. | |
| Speaker size and soundstage ^^^ The "strange noise" probably came from Glenn Gould himself :-) | |
| Speaker size and soundstage In general the bigger the speakers the bigger the soundstage. There are a few exceptions just like everything else in life. | |
| Audio Engineering Society and cables "The difference between low end and high end audio is what occurs below 40db"It's the low level details that make or break. | |
| Speakers The single most critical component I actually agree that speakers are the most important component in the playback chain. Then you work your way back. Next would be your amp then preamp then the source. After that it would be the cables and interconnects. | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion I tried Goertz foil diy cables in the past though they sound decent they lacked transparency. Probably has high amount of capacitance. You can fine tune them by using fancy dielectric but beyond the diy realm. In the end it is not any one geome... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. Concerning the OP Paradigm Founder Series 120H, they are basically 3-way with built-in sub, so I wouldn't say these speakers are active in the traditional sense. | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. ^^^ If done right active can sound good but the complexity is probably not worth it. You will need external amp and dedicated ADC per channel which won't come cheap. Most people won't put up with all that external equipment. Cheap miniDSP stuff... | |
| Audio Engineering Society and cables Well if all cables sound the same then God probably did something wrong. |