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| Goldmund, not much inside, but ultra expensive. Don’t blame Goldmund, I just bought a 31K SUV with thousands of parts inside and yet a 6 foot pair of speaker wires can easily cost in excess of the 31K. Just curious to ask what do you think of a $310K Ferrari? It gets to the grocery store just ... | |
| Goldmund, not much inside, but ultra expensive. I don't disagree that sometimes "less is more". And of course it does not mean the more parts the better and ultimately it's the sound that matters. In a similar topic, in term of "less is more", some people prefer low power amplifier because th... | |
| Goldmund, not much inside, but ultra expensive. On a slight tangential subject, I currently have an Arcam CD23. When I open up the case, I can see some serious engineering has gone into it.On the other hands, some CDP got nothing but a tiny little circuit board in it that makes you scratch you... | |
| Why Does CD Sound So Good? I have an Ayre QB-9 DSD streaming from my labtop USB and an Arcam CD23, but the QB9 is definitely better than the CD23 so I don’t know if it proves anything.Theoretically the underlining technology should not be different in term of converting 1’s... | |
| 2 way, which are the best designs? There is a saying "If you owe me $100 dollars, it's your problem. If you owe me $100K dollars, it's my problem".If you argue with Kenjit, I wonder whose problem that is :-) | |
| Future of cables! It only works for "ballistic conduction". Our speaker wires are too long to be qualified as "ballistic conductor". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_conduction In mesoscopic physics, ballistic conduction (ballistic transport) is the t... | |
| Why are Trolls not blocked If that's the case, nobody here will be allowed to post :-) | |
| Amplifiers weight It’s like cooking. Things such as transformers, caps, transistors ... are like ingredients. They establish an upper limits. And of course how good you are as a chef determines the final finished products. Mr. Pass probably won't be able to do muc... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? After listening to tube and solid state preamps, I have to say there is something about tubes that make musics come alive. It's hard to put it in words. Check out some Conrad Johnson stuffs. | |
| Tubes vs Solid State and the guilty party Hm.... this is definitely not "cable break-in". The measurements of tubes and solid states are like night and day so I am not sure if this is an issue. | |
| How to guarantee to lower noise- ground loops in your system I think ground loop is caused by equipment not having the same ground potential. If A and B have different ground potential, then a small current will be created between A and B and it is caused by equipment design defect.Or it could be caused by... | |
| The “They are here” vs “You are there” sound topic Speakers with wide baffle are generally "you’re are there". Those with narrower baffle tend to be "they are here". That's why monitors are usually "they are here" and of course some of that because most monitors don't have a lot of bass. | |
| Best songs to test speakers Thanks OP for the links. I’ve been looking for these and it’s nice to have in one list. By the way, does anyone know if the streaming from WhatHiFi links are red book quality? | |
| Aerial Acoustics 6T Speaker It’s very interesting that the Thiel speakers are characterized as "lean" by teajay. I thought they are very natural and full-body sound. I can understand they could sound a bit "cool" if driven by a front end system that is a bit bright.I was won... | |
| Quality of digital cable from from source to DAC? These kinds of discussion will get nowhere. Anyway here are facts:1. It’s not zero’s and one’s. 2. It’s electrical signals.3. Once you connect A to B, A will affect B electrically regardless. |