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| Pleasurably better, not measurably better Pleasurably better could go way beyond just the sound quality of a system. I personally love butter smooth FM tuner dials that have a good deal of mass and inertia and can coast a bit if you turn them quickly. A little static in the signal on a st... | |
| So I was changing a lightbulb last night… The system and you are interactive. | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! @brauser I recently experimented with a SOTA power cable from Audio Magic replacing the stock cable and the improvement in picture quality was dramatic. What kind of image quality improvements did you see? Are they obvious enough that you cou... | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! @teo_audio the differences will be notably more huge, if one does transient and complex transients stacked and their harmonics, as a fundamental test. I take it you must know of tests that have already shown this? | |
| Any Musicians Not on Spotify? I noticed I can’t listen to Marco Benevento Live at Tonic on Spotify, even though I see it listed in some searches and some of his other music is available. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I can't afford a $40K amplifier and I'm not worried about whatever I might be missing there. But I don't doubt I might be missing something very good, and it may not be just about the sound quality taken in isolation. I have a fairly expensive wa... | |
| Sad songs- We love them- We need them @immatthewj "Everybody Hurts" REM This one and "Sweetness Follows." Really struck home when my father died. | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! @jerryg123 Ah, I'm slow at picking up nuance sometimes. Now you've got me thinking about "the measurement guys." I'm envisioning people who own equipment just to measure it - they never listen to it at all! There's nothing wrong with that I supp... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. @barryinseattle I agree. While I seem to have a fairly forgiving hearing system that fits the standard engineering notions of what can and cannot be heard, I stop before insisting that nobody else can hear the things I can't. It's interesting... | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! If the ears aren’t convinced then the graphs and charts are telling us what we can’t hear or don’t notice as important to our enjoyment of the sound. That’s good information just as much as when the charts and graphs do correlate to what we like. ... | |
| Does Equipment Break In, or Does Our Hearing Adjust? Now that I think about it there are other possibilities besides just burn-in. Some components could conceivably change sound quality for better or worse over time whether used or not. Some could conceivably sound better after a burn in period, but... | |
| Does Equipment Break In, or Does Our Hearing Adjust? One way to know for sure with your sound bar would be to do before and after measurements. The apparent tonality change should readily show up on a frequency response graph if it was actually caused by physical changes in the sound bar’s performan... | |
| Does Equipment Break In, or Does Our Hearing Adjust? Agreeing with what other have said here, it is true that for some of us at least it’s our ears that do the vast majority of the breaking in. I’ve bought identical amps new and listened to them both at the start, and judged them to sound identical ... | |
| Things I don‘t know I’ll have to admit I can’t reliably tell if the polarity is reversed or not, at least not with music. My equipment does allow me to switch the polarity. | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! Thanks for sharing this. I've been complaining that no one does these kinds of tests, and alas here it is! The performances are quite similar but there's enough deviation there to suggest audibility. Anybody know how long the cable runs were? |