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| Do your ears deceive you? We don't typically listen under blind conditions. If an improvement is perceived, and it is unshakable under normal listening conditions, then it works for you. We need not ask why - unless we're curious about it. When people start giving untest... | |
| Could Class D really be that good? This seems like a serious thread from people who have really done a lot of work with op-amps over on ASR. Seems like there are a lot of gotchas if you don't choose and test carefully. Objective changes for the worse or better in terms of noise and... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. The thing I like most about music is that it can express things that we don’t have other ways of expressing. You could talk to me all day about a Beethoven Symphony, for instance, but until I hear it I’ll have no idea what you are talking about. O... | |
| Mood @cdc Thanks for the background info. From that perspective, I can see how music can be like a condiment. @mahgister I agree there's a lot more possible in interpretation than just acting like a condiment. However, it's sometimes sort of true,... | |
| Mood My experience suggests that some systems might be more robust against the perceptual swings that some of us experience. Right now I feel that my system is in a robust state because I haven't had a bad sounding day since I set it up like this. It's... | |
| Mood @cdc Who said that music is like a condiment? I can think of ways it can be like a condiment. But then there's this guy who said interpretation is a condiment. So if music is already a condiment, we have a condiment^2 with interpretation. | |
| Mood @ghdprentice You have a gift! I cannot rely on my audio perceptions because they swing so much. I noticed this back when I used to play string bass. It would sound rich, warm, and full to me one day, and then thin, raspy, and scratchy the next. ... | |
| Mood My perception changes over time. I think I hear distortion that I hadn’t noticed before, or some detail is all at once smeared in a certain frequency range. I can check on my headphones, which are an entirely different system, to see if it’s just ... | |
| Listening Room @12many I have enjoyed listening to my system in various asymmetric settings over the years, and found my favorite listening positions were often nowhere close to the center. I wasn’t paying much attention to imaging. I never used to think about... | |
| Listening Room If you don't have to worry about that sweet spot, it may be a great blessing. As far as I'm concerned, the sweet spot with just two speakers ain't so sweet. That's right where comb filtering of center panned sounds is the worst, ruining tone. It n... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords The owner of the amp/cable company heard no difference. He still thinks that there is a reason for it and is working to help me determine why. Under normal circumstances we shouldn’t expect to hear differences between these cables, so I don’t t... | |
| Could Class D really be that good? I don’t know how to get those results that will put my name in lights. If I did, I’d do it. The method is easy, just do double blind tests on signals that measure identically and show that people are statistically identifying them correctly as dif... | |
| Could Class D really be that good? @ricevs I assure you, it will be counted as a discovery with your name on it if you'll just demonstrate this phenomenon. The science of audio and human hearing will be moved forward, and the big blob of love that we are will grow more lovingly. ... | |
| Could Class D really be that good? @ricevs The measurements don’t change but anyone can hear a difference? This is a huge discovery, and understanding what is going on will advance science. If you can figure out a way to show what it is we are hearing with some new measurement yo... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? I don't notice anything specific as sounding different from the two video time marks. What do you hear? Have you tried measuring the difference? I guess it's just me but that's what I'd do because I'm a curious dude. Every time I've been pretty su... |