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| Aalto Acoustics Lab in Finland I’ve watched some youtube videos where people experiment with playing instruments in anechoic chambers. Most instruments suffer without some room reinforcement, but the gong owned the anechoic chamber. It had so much built in reverberance that the... | |
| Aalto Acoustics Lab in Finland Thanks for sharing this. What did you think of the anechoic chamber? I've heard that they bother some people because of the eye/ear mismatch. We hear relatively anechoic environments outside all the time, but we don't expect an anechoic effect whe... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @cleeds Who exactly is the "we" you apparently pretend to represent? If some simple measurements would please you, feel free to make some of your own. The "we" are the ones you referred to as not interested in discussion, but would rather... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @invalid I've had Polk sda2a speakers for over 30 years I had that same speaker. I bought mine back around 1991 or '92. I liked them but didn't tend to use that crosstalk cable. I didn't understand how it was supposed to work and so I honestl... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! This article answers my questions. Cables can definitely make a difference. I don’t see why they need to cost a lot, but you may need a specific mix of resistance, inductance, capacitance with any given system to get a most desired result. In some... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @cleeds They’re not interested in conversation - they seek to disrupt it. We’d love to see just some decent explanation of what’s going on. I’d be happy with some simple measurements. If there’s a subtle but reliably measurable difference in ... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @audioisnobiggie I use hardware calibration for my monitor. My software tells me how accurate the colors my screen puts out are. If I swap digital cables, it shows me a different measured result That's very interesting! Is the difference easi... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! What I want is a cable that minimizes inter-aural crosstalk. Polk Audio has a cable like that going between their speakers in their flagship SDA line. I'm someone who notices the center image frequency response dip caused at each ear by the interf... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! I bought silver cables once and heard a night and day difference - until I blind tested myself. It absolutely blew my mind that the difference I perceived vanished just by me not knowing which cable I was listening to. After that, it no longer ma... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! I read about the perceived sound changes, and then I see stuff about how the cables are made, and how this and that might cause a difference. What I don’t see is anything that gives an in depth explanation with any real substance to it of just how... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music @mahgister Nice thread! I really enjoyed the microphone video. Will watch the rest that are posted here when I have time. | |
| The Ultimate Audio Modification: Golden Ears I don’t read purely subjective reviews as much these days, but early on I got good general impressions from reviewer’s subjective impressions about different speaker types, tube vs solid state amps and pre-amps, digital vs analog sources, cables, ... | |
| WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD? I just spliced together two different kinds of cables using those cone shaped twist wire splicers and the result is some of the best sounding cables I’ve ever heard. Part of what makes them sound so good is that they are now long enough to connect... | |
| 3-Dimensional Soundstage In my experience, a great sense of depth can be achieved to an impressive degree without the total sound quality being top notch. In other words, you can get it with fairly cheap gear. It is very important to get the the frequency response correct... | |
| Very good AES presentation on inter connects and ground loops. @tvrgeek HDMI on the other hand is a disaster and who ever designed the plug needs a dope-slap. Thanks for posting the article. I’m lucky to not have line noise problems right now, but I have had them in the past, tried everything to no avail... |