atdavid
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| Is There any Consensus at all amongst Audiophiles? Nope, not sexy enough. Hard to brag on a forum about your room treatment when no-one cares. Most would rather wax eloquent about a $70,000 cable that has never been put through blind testing, versus room treatment where the impact is never questio... | |
| new GAN amplifier Output stage, the stage before the output stage, hopefully the feedback network, the bias circuitry for the output stage ..... It's a different amplifier.Can you even buy TO3 transistors any more? (TO3, as opposed to TO3P which is a different beas... | |
| First order/Time Phase-Coherent speakers discussions I liked this in the review,"The tendency of many high-end products to attempt to "fix it in the mix," as audio engineers would say (ie, attempt to "improve" the realism of the original source material), is not in the best interests of ultimate f... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance I am there for work every 8 weeks approximately, but no guarantees on a Friday. I am certainly in. I don't think it matters if me or Dimora is a believer or not, as long as you are. If you can pick your cables out blind (or between a basic shielde... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong It's a full time job keeping up with the misinformation being spread :-) | |
| How many of you believe in MQA? Brian, your post is music to my eyes :-)What MQA promotes as "restoring" the impulse response, is not much more than forcing a minimum phase filter on the DAC, which creates a potentially "nice" looking step response .... at least nice to those th... | |
| What is wrong with audiophiles? I said the levels were not matched in their demo samples and walked out. Software is not susceptible to expectation bias ... | |
| What is wrong with audiophiles? Vendors unfortunately do do this, play with levels at trade shows. I caught a vendor of conditioner products doing this recently in Toronto. He thought I was just amazed at the difference ... Nope, I was measuring the levels. | |
| What is wrong with audiophiles? Well most of your post I agree with your comment about DSD and 6db is founded in a lack of understanding of noise shaping. What we don’t understand we often assume is bad whether there is real evidence of it or not.Your comment about high res/high... | |
| How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog? Except almost all vinyl in the last several decades has been digital right up to the cutting head. Pre-digital, most analog tapes and cutting head amps/systems had bandwidth limitations too, even if the theoretical cartridge limit was higher.The d... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance You are trying to take complex things that happen in 3 dimensional sound field that is time variant and apply that to an simple electrical signal with absolutely no proof of the claims you effectively make about said electrical signalA two channel... | |
| Is There any Consensus at all amongst Audiophiles? 11. More emphasis on the room and acoustic treatment. | |
| new GAN amplifier This is what you said "sunshine" and to my point, you are essentially making a different amp. The one who doesn't have any decent tech knowledge is you. I have designed many amplifiers, discreet and on integrated circuits, hence why what you post... | |
| new GAN amplifier You can't just swap out the output FETs for the BJTs. There are a lot of other things that need to be addressed. It is not the same amplifier any more.Again, do you know how to design amplifiers? I get the impression no or your replies would be mo... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance Farther up on this thread or maybe another I have expressed my views on "cords". I think you will find my views often similar to yours but more nuanced.I have two runs of heavy gauge to a split outlet, same phase for both with grounds tied. Predat... |