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| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? I can be suggestable. Sometimes I'm affected by other's opinions, sometimes not so much. I know I really like something when I continue to just love it even while the person next to me is saying it sounds pretty bad. | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... My experience has been that I can get various very inexpensive interconnects that all sound indistinguishable. Fortunately I subjectively find that sound to be good, and I enjoy the consistency, dependability and readily available supply. I’ve tri... | |
| How tall do you like your images? Slightly above ear level seems ideal to me, and usually happens without me trying much. I can’t think of a time where the sound seemed to be coming from lower than my ears, even when the speakers were. I have some binaural recordings which are mea... | |
| How Do Amps Affect Soundstage? I have heard very good sound staging with otherwise bad sound. Distortion will not always reduce the size, width, and depth of the sound stage, although it usually doesn't help. It might sometimes, for some people. I've had the soundstage pop into... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything Listening to tube amps, I don’t hear the effects as desirable like some people do. It does seem though that a solid state amp can be made to sound much more like a tube amp than the other way around. So, I’m told you can run the output of a low po... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? @oldrooney Have you had other people over to listen to see if they hear the same things you do from the various component changes? This is an area I’m interested in. It’s not clear why a change in a DAC or amplifier would have a perceptual effec... | |
| AI and the future of music I think for AI to make really meaningful music it'll need to actually comprehend and somehow feel the human experience. If we can make that happen, the we could end up with a real friend who is also amazingly brilliant. I don't think this is going... | |
| AI and the future of music I’ve been watching AI generated videos. They’re freaky and hilarious. The AI obviously does not really understand what a face or a hand is, it just calculates statistically what it thinks these things should look like. As Daniel Dennet says, you c... | |
| Stereophile review of Millercarbon system featuring Tektron speakers After reading his posts from all that time he was on this forum, it was nice to meet him in person. He doesn’t look at all like Einstein! Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to really listen at any length to that setup. That's the downside of work... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I don't know for sure but I think you can connect the phone or iPad directly to the amp via USB. You may also be able to stream the phone through the Mac Mini. I control my Mac Mini with a keyboard and mouse, hooked up through my TV so I can see... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I use a Mac Mini as a streamer. Probably USB output would make the most sense since the Mark Levinson accepts USB input, and a new Mac Mini has no other built-in digital audio output capability except HDMI, which I don’t see listed as an input opt... | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? In the visual world a holograph is typically something that has 3 dimensionality in appearance, but is also somewhat ethereal, lacking solidness. You can partially see through it. It’s obviously has no substance. My idea of something sounding too ... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @yoyoyaya Do you accept that recovering all of the information contained in the original recording is a legitimate aim of hi fi reproduction? I think that's an admirable aim, especially when in the context of a cable. It should let the signal... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @ieales Cables make a difference. I’ve said that for over 50 years. What is not guaranteed is that any particular cable in any particular system will effect a change or be an improvement to all. Regardless of all the marketing claims. Advisin... | |
| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? @tonywinga They’re measuring the analog output. I’m not sure it’s all FFT, may be wavelet or whatever. I think it’s very safe to say that no spurious white noise or random tones or phase or timing errors are sneaking by the measuring equipmen... |