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| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality I’m surprised there’s not a lot of experimenting with changing the amplifier’s housing. I used to run a pair of cheap JVC amps with their case tops removed so they would cool better and I could unplug the fans. That made a definite audible improve... | |
| Will you hear the most beautiful music... @sgreg1 I think there would be fainting. | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Nice videos. I think I hear what I associate with tubes right at the start of one of those videos with the cymbal crash. I'm generally happier with the solid state sound but it'd be nice to be able to switch over to tubes with the flick of a switc... | |
| Will you hear the most beautiful music... That’s definitely something different! I don’t doubt it tastes wonderful. I read up that super low stress for the animal is important, as well as the genetics of the animal. The closest I’ve come to something like that was lamb I had at a Greek re... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns I don’t think the room is a magic box any more than any other component. It is a component, and can be the weakest link. From a pure measurement perspective it is often the weakest link, showing vast divergences from linearity at the listening pos... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @noske You make good points about deciding what matters, and then having what matters change to you over time as your experience evolves. I think you have understood me and expanded on it. I’ve had exposure recently to a co-worker’s speakers he b... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @mulveling I agree that if I’m not aware of the weakest link in my system I may have more room to make improvements that are more significant than I otherwise might think, especially if I have tried improving parts that were already relatively s... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns I think the law of accelerating returns applies to those who have developed an appreciation for the difficulty in making progressively smaller improvements, so they notice those small improvements and realize the achievement they signify. Their se... | |
| If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs If this produces palpable improvements for no physically known reason, it leads one to wonder what other methods or treatment might lead to even more palpable improvements! I don’t see any need for the treatment to be in the same room, or even on ... | |
| CDs And Green Markers. Please Don’t Laugh. I had a friend that worked at a Sony disc manufacturing plant here in Eugene years ago. They had a listening room with Dunlavy speakers and someone got paid to listen to CDs to make sure there weren't gross errors like mixed up track order, incomp... | |
| If you are interested..........? Do you have a picture of that setup? Optimizing low volume listening I think is an interesting topic. | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer @cd318 Yes, more similar in frequency response is primarily what the EQ will do. And if distortion is kept low and dispersion is similar the overall presentation will be very similar. Chances are if you like the sound of one you'll like the soun... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” Not expecting reality but just certain aspects of it. For me it mostly comes down to smooth extended frequency response on and off axis with minimal background noise and the ability to get fairly loud without excessive distortion, and an appropria... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer In an anechoic space you can equalize and correct the phase of speakers by using FIR filters and make them sound more similar on axis than I think most people would admit, at least up to the volume where the speaker starts to distort audibly. In r... | |
| Quiz about adding dense mass to a vibration isolation application! One thing that makes me happy with this subject is that people are paying attention to measurements! I can't say I've been able to identify a sonic issue related to DAC vibrations myself. Regardless, the process of achieving vibration isolation an... |