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| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? So a good network switch can reduce noise and distortion, some of which comes from jitter. Anything else? How much of a difference should one expect? Like going from -90 dB to -95 dB noise to signal? Is it something very subtle but still worthwhil... | |
| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? All I can say is that I just love the way my Eero wireless mesh network sounds. I do have a switch of some kind, which is also a modem, which feeds ethernet to the Eero unit and a has a few more outlets that are unused, so I guess I'm listening to... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? That’s hilarious! Are they trying to kick over a trash container with a weighted bottom? I’ve got a pair of Klipschorns that are sitting mostly unused in my living room. They are temporarily hooked up to a receiver with two very different cabl... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? I think we should just keep kicking this horse. It’s dead so it don’t mind. Has anybody ever heard a really bad effect from a cable or connector? I have! I tried some passive line attenuators on the output of a pro level dac to lower it’s output f... | |
| My Final System Build in Words & Pictures Awesome! I like the amount of DIY. At first glance over the photos I thought you built your own electrostatic panels! That’s too much DIY for me. Glad to see you left that to the specialists, although I bow in reverence to those who build their ow... | |
| horn or line array? A line array of bass horns is what I'm using - four horns stacked on top each other to the ceiling in each corner. That can get you truly horn loaded down below 30Hz. I'm a horn lover but I can understand why some people aren't. You'll have to do... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? The argument about cables is purely objective from what I can tell. Nobody is arguing against anybody’s subjective experience. We take it for granted. What’s being argued is the technical explanation for that subjective experience. For some reason... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? If someone was curious to hear more clearly what various cables do to the sound, it seems they could be tried with long cable runs, like maybe 100 feet. Surely that would exaggerate whatever change the cable is making compared to another cable of ... | |
| I am just very happy with my system. I’m happy with my system but I feel I shouldn’t be. It’s in what’s supposed to be a temporary experimental setup that’s using a cheap Denon receiver and 3 cheap Sony bookshelf speakers, augmented by a bank of 8 corner loaded bass horns. I just wan... | |
| Anyone else feel like they are “transported” INTO the music One thing I’ve had happen live that I’ve never had happen with a sound system is the music taking over and transforming the space - at least in my mind. I went to see Isaac Stern at our local Hult Center for the Performing Arts. It was just him an... | |
| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? I'm still trying to figure out what all makes a speaker sound good to me. I can learn to like a lot of speakers, but I have found that when it comes to direct radiators I tend to like a 4" cone midrange, and 3/4" dome tweeter on a minimum baffle. ... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? I can imagine having someone hooked up to measure their physical responses, like brainwaves, to see changes in their physiological and mental state with changes in sound quality. I'm not sure what we'd learn from that beyond just having the person... | |
| The weirdness of it all It would be interesting to see exactly what these different cables do to the sound. This could be done with a before and after measurement of the speaker. People say you can't measure these differences, they're something that only the human ear ca... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @soix It seems I haven’t communicated the concepts very well. But it doesn’t matter. You can read about the problems with 2 channel crosstalk if you’re interested. I don’t doubt you are correct - 2 speaker setups will live on as the primary crit... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @soix when you’re at a live concert how do you prevent the strings on the left from bleeding over into the woodwinds on the right? Do you bring your own personal divider with you to make it sound more “right” to you? To each his own I guess. ... |