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| Bruce Edgar Sad to hear of his passing. I found his writings very enjoyable and helpful. He shared his knowledge freely and I am grateful. | |
| Companies that build listening rooms in your home I work at Acoustic Sciences Corp. and we do that sort of thing. | |
| 0s & 1s are all the same aren’t they? Is it really worth paying for a “better” Streamer? The sound is in the name. It’s like saying Linncoln log house. The 'n’s are smeared. If Linn just changed it’s name the smeared house sound would go away. | |
| How old are you? I'm 52, which is 22 years longer than I needed to have a fulfilled life according to my 30 year old mind. I guess that makes me 22 bonus years old! | |
| I was told to put Kitty Litter in my new speaker stands. Was he joking? Gold dust can be used if you have some extra gold lying around. Make sure it's well sealed so it doesn't attract gold bugs. | |
| I was told to put Kitty Litter in my new speaker stands. Was he joking? I've used kitty litter on some stands with very good results. The stands I had used thin aluminum tubes with glass plates on top and bottom. They had a distinctive ring to them when you tapped them and this came through when the speakers were play... | |
| Speakers sound brighter at evening / night? Here's the thing. Why are you unable to make the same allowance? Why are you incapable of imagining anyone else being able to do something, simply because you cannot? millercarbon, I know people can do things I can't do, and can hear things I c... | |
| Speakers sound brighter at evening / night? "What is it with this urge to explain away the things we hear? Not explain- explain away. The implication is you didn't really hear what you know perfectly darn well you did. It didn't really happen. You only think that it did. Poppycock! "millerc... | |
| Speakers sound brighter at evening / night? It just occurred to me how we could perhaps test this idea. I see a lot of youtube videos of people's high end systems playing. You get to hear their system, sort of. It's obviously a flawed method, but it can tell you some important things like ... | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? Something different - the sound of a Saturn V rocket. Works for me every time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwn4LVVvAUQ | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions I had a Moodlab "Concept" dac years ago. As far as I know this used a simple R2R dac, and it had no oversampling and no output filter. I bought it out of curiosity, to see just how bad it would sound. I thought it sounded fine. Nothing special, no... | |
| Good to remember ... how to tell what sounds better An interesting take on how to determine your own long term preference when quick switching differences are obvious. I know when I had LP playback and digital of many of the same albums and could compare them at length I never did establish a prefe... | |
| Unbelievable 3-D imaging sound Seems like you've found sonic heaven! Roughly how are you set up? How far apart are the speakers? How far are you sitting from them? How far from the front wall? How big is the room? Just curious to know any details you'll share. | |
| Can an “audiophile” ever be satisfied with a system? Dittos to millercarbon. And others. Satisfaction isn't the goal for some of us. If I'm satisfied with the sound I might say to myself "fascinating," and then try the next interesting idea that comes along and that I can afford to implement. I stil... | |
| Your system quality vs. recording quality After listening to speakers with different dispersion patterns I'm fairly convinced that some recordings sound better with a narrower dispersion speaker, or a highly absorptive, well damped space. Other recordings seem to benefit from more ambienc... |