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| Who says cables don't make a difference? For some reasons, people believe in engine break-in, but not in cable break-in ... like these two exist in different universe and obeying different laws of physics. These threads all come to the same ... may I say happy endings lols. | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? I love the smell of cable threads in the morning.Now cable breaking-in threads ... that's the smell of napalm. But I do notice some improvement. Before it was like "cables don't make any difference ... blah blah blah". Now at least the differen... | |
| Magico M9 The new 'norm' in speakers Andy, I think you are undercutting it by at least $500K. IMHO there is no loudspeaker worth $750,000 and certainly no system worth 1.5 mil. Maybe I'm just not rich enough. I can understand $250,000 for a system which is about what my ultimate dr... | |
| Magico M9 The new 'norm' in speakers Speakers: 750KAmp: 100KPreamp: 50KSource: 50KCables: 50K (interconnects, power, speakers ...)Total 1Mil System. Enough said :-) | |
| Two Canadians and a Dane walk into a bar.... (bookshelf advice) To b_limo,I created a thread at diyaudio.com so if you could post the xover there. The cap may have been used for impedance correction so it may not be in the signal path. Without impedance correction, the impedance might be too high. https://w... | |
| Two Canadians and a Dane walk into a bar.... (bookshelf advice) With regard to the Fritz Carrera BE, it is claimed the xover does not have any capacitor or resistor. It is interesting to know how he can match the efficiency of the tweeter and the woofer. The BE dome is about 92 - 95dB whereas the woofer is aro... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science IM distortion seems to be the only really important one as far as sound quality goes. It is one of many variables. Two drivers, one with lower IM does not necessarily really mean it is the better, although having low IM is important. Another... | |
| Thiel Owners yesterday's HiFi Chats via YouTube featured Dave Gordon of ARC. Fast forward to around 30:15 where Dave said "not all USB cables sound the same". I am sure a lot of people will have issues with that :-) | |
| Have you ever wondered who sets the trends in the hi-end speaker industry? Did you notice that kenjit is conspiciously absent from this thread? OP is kenjit twin. | |
| Wharfedale Elysian 4 Incredible build quality and sound, but made in China. Most stuffs including speakers are made in China. I would say 90% of stuffs at Walmart probably made in China. Also it’s interesting OP thinks $10K speakers are a bargain :-) It’s a rather basic three way with two bass drivers, probably 4th order ... | |
| Big source improvement using CD player If you're into streaming, I would much recommend a USB DAC so you can either stream or playing from your PC. For your budget, I would recommend the Ayre QB9 DSD used. | |
| Directionality Explained This thread is going well. By the way, Biden and Trump are close to their 80's, so this country is probably for old men. | |
| Need speaker cable I used to have Blue Jeans cable and interconnects and for the price I was generally satisfied. I then I bought some fairly basic QED cables for not that much more than what I paid for Blue Jeans, and there was a marked improvement in transparency... | |
| Need speaker cable Canare seems to be a bit like Home Depot wire repackaged as speaker cables if I am not mistaken. In some way, the same goes for Blue Jean cables. | |
| Need speaker cable I would recommend QED SIGNATURE Genesis Silver Spiral. They are a little expensive when new, but you could get them for about $600 used for a pair. https://www.qed.co.uk/qed-genesis-silver-spiral-cable.html |