bartholomew
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| Game Changing Tweak @grk I’m the OP of this thread. Congratulations on thinking for yourself and trusting your own ears. You’ve corroborated my own experience that AddPowr’s products are a powerful addition to ANY audio system. I also wrote a follow-up about pluggi... | |
| How I Beat the System to Nab an Unbeatable System Your system, by description, sounds pretty amazing. I would love to hear it in person. I've discovered a product that I use as a contact enhancer that I sent to Ralph and he was impressed in that it was superior to his own. If you'd like, I'll sen... | |
| How I Beat the System to Nab an Unbeatable System Next time I speak to Ralph, I'll suggest he put up a picture of his vintage 'Vette. | |
| How I Beat the System to Nab an Unbeatable System @ihcho, Congratulations again! Now, I think it's time to put that M16P in your primary system and see if it stays. I'll bet it does, so let me know! | |
| What are we objectivists missing? "I figure subjectivists are like religious people and objectivists are the scientists. There is no proof that a new cable, silver fuse, etc improves the sound, but they believe it does As @djones51 said, until you take vision out of any audio test... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? Another incident related to this was when an audio technician with 50 years of experience told me that the hiss being produced by a pre-amp didn't register on his oscilloscope. | |
| What are we objectivists missing? I'm the one who posted Game Changing Tweak first in August of 2020 and in this forum titled Part 2. I consult with people whose knowledge in the audio field is towering. The audiophile who suggested I get an isolation transformer began his electro... | |
| Game Changing Tweak Part 2 I also noticed the improvement when I was playing an SACD disk. It's got three concertos by Locatelli with Sandrine Cantoreggi on violin. It's a superb recording, and you think you're sitting in the middle of the orchestra with the five channel se... | |
| Game Changing Tweak Part 2 Harry Pearson couldn't have said it better. | |
| Game Changing Tweak Part 2 @Bemused: Thanks for articulating the technical "how and why" of my set-up. I agree that the Electraclears were still working in the background when they were upstream of the transformer. However, the a/b epiphany happened when I plugged the Elec... | |
| AudioMagic Fuses Bad Quality I Do Not Recommend!! https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/i-m-in-love-with-betty | |
| Panels on the ceiling Don't scrape. Cheapest way is to hire a plasterer/painter to skim coat the ceiling with a plaster/ joint compound mix over the popcorn. Allow the now smooth surface to dry and paint it. It takes a skilled skim coater to do ceilings, though. | |
| Why Is Hi Fi Gear So Darn Expensive? There are ways around the high cost of audio equipment by finding an exceptionally gifted modder that can take a used piece of reputable equipment ; speaker crossovers, amps, preamps, phono stages, audio cartridges, etc. and bring it up to a level... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. @jfuquay:: It's a tad difficult to do the crossword puzzle with a pen online, n'est-ce pas? | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. My own theory about the vinyl experience is that the physical vibrations mined by a stylus mimics the aural mechanism of the ear, so that there is a subtle resonance at play between the two systems. The ear's bones and tympanic membrane operate ve... |