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| Really Long XLR I'll be curious to know what you settle on and what you think of the results. Long runs are what XLR cables were made for. Nevertheless, a long cable run should be more revealing of differences between cables than a much shorter run. I think these... | |
| Dynamic Range - the golden key to music nirvana? I have not been able to listen to reel to reel in extended sessions. I did get a chance in 2019 to hear a demonstration at the California Audio Show. In that demonstration I had no complaint with the reel to reel playback, but the room was definin... | |
| Dynamic Range - the golden key to music nirvana? From the measurements I’ve seen, it’s very difficult to achieve a dynamic range with any speed to it beyond about 15dB in real world listening situations. If you can get 8th notes separated by 8th note rests to achieve more than 15 dB of dynamic r... | |
| Flat frequency response From what I’ve read, and experiences from my attempts at building speakers, it does seem to be important that the overall power output be smooth, with a downward tilt of some sort toward the treble. It really is difficult to get a speaker to simul... | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? I don’t know how to make a good sounding fuse, but I have discovered that a cracked fuse holder can make most any fuse sound bad. If a system is intended to be used at a level well below its capabilities to deal with current, then it makes buildi... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality You definitely don’t need a streamer to get absolutely top notch performance. You may like the streamer better subjectively, but objectively there’s nothing particularly better about it. If it’s functionality works out better for you then go for i... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? Maybe someone someday can do a deep dive on source to dac issues and come up with some good explanations and examples of what can go wrong. I’m convinced that weird things can go wrong even though the music keeps playing. I’ve heard it myself ; st... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? @coralkong Once you hit a certain level of transport and DAC coupled with very clean amplification, good cabling, speakers, etc...the differences are pretty easy to hear. Listening and comparing a couple sub $1000 transports probably won’t ... | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... I’m reminded of Tolstoy’s beginning of Anna Karenina " All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." We could rephrase this "All bad sounding interconnects are alike; each good sounding interconnect is good soun... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? I can be suggestable. Sometimes I'm affected by other's opinions, sometimes not so much. I know I really like something when I continue to just love it even while the person next to me is saying it sounds pretty bad. | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... My experience has been that I can get various very inexpensive interconnects that all sound indistinguishable. Fortunately I subjectively find that sound to be good, and I enjoy the consistency, dependability and readily available supply. I’ve tri... | |
| How tall do you like your images? Slightly above ear level seems ideal to me, and usually happens without me trying much. I can’t think of a time where the sound seemed to be coming from lower than my ears, even when the speakers were. I have some binaural recordings which are mea... | |
| How Do Amps Affect Soundstage? I have heard very good sound staging with otherwise bad sound. Distortion will not always reduce the size, width, and depth of the sound stage, although it usually doesn't help. It might sometimes, for some people. I've had the soundstage pop into... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything Listening to tube amps, I don’t hear the effects as desirable like some people do. It does seem though that a solid state amp can be made to sound much more like a tube amp than the other way around. So, I’m told you can run the output of a low po... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? @oldrooney Have you had other people over to listen to see if they hear the same things you do from the various component changes? This is an area I’m interested in. It’s not clear why a change in a DAC or amplifier would have a perceptual effec... |