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| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? secretguy 1,584 posts 05-07-2024 at 05:28am I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell ya. This is the worst experience to get when you grab hold of a new power cord. | |
| 18 inch subwoofer vs multiple 12 inch subwoofers with bookshelf speakers I too generally have preferred multiple subs, especially when crossing to small (bookshelf type) mains. Driver Xmax and surface area will not be the same. Depending on how you plan to integrate the subs, that may not be a negligible difference. A... | |
| Anyone listen to entire albums? I listen to at least 50% of the album 100% of the time when I’m playing a 7”. Unless I’m interrupted. | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? 12many OP 221 posts 05-03-2024 at 02:42am Thanks all. Good info. My issue is not so much about a poor quality recording, just that some good recordings are coming across with a bit too much bass energy, while other sound good, even when t... | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? 12many 05-02-2024 6:23am By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy... | |
| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? To me, performance would seem far more important for the marketing opp. Lose that and forfeit any real purpose to one’s expo/show investment. “Yes, YES, ‘Yesterday’ sounded sublime in room xyz; too bad I’ve been fatigued of the song for the past t... | |
| Worst Speakers Ever?? ozzy 7,206 posts 04-28-2024 at 03:22am The worst speaker I have ever tried/owned was the Carver Line Source. I had at the time the Carver Raven amps, which I liked, so when these speakers came out, I thought they would be a perfect match. WR... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? It’s curious that expectation bias from speaker measurements is just as likely to develop as from a speaker’s: appearance, price, name brand etc. (i.e. “conventional” sources of such bias). Where measurements get interesting is how folks can have... | |
| Ethernet Cables - what are you using and why? I’ve seen some mind-bogglingly high end home theater setups and don’t recall one of them using a fancy Ethernet cable (e.g. for streaming 4K). Atmos didn’t seem to have any issue with regular Ethernet trimmings; perhaps 2Ch HiFi streaming responds... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing audphile1 4,150 posts 04-22-2024 at 08:40pm @benanders … “I’m not denying anything (I haven’t formally tested for it …” this further solidifies what I said above. So here’s the rub…I do not need my entire zip co... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? Kids? Fine. If hifi kit survives kids’ earliest years, it’s solid. If kit survives kids’ teenage music-discovery years, it’ll beat kryptonite. Dogs? Fine. Dogs might shed, they might drool, but they also guard the home against burglars br... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing audphile1 4,147 posts 04-22-2024 at 12:45pm …I had no intention to use it to prove anything to you or others in the cable denying camp. That is a fool’s errand. I think there lies the rub, @audphile1 - I’m not denying anything (I haven... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing soix 8,621 posts 04-20-2024 at 10:13pm @benanders Your post is as slanted as it is ineffective in its stated upfront point… Heyya @soix , was your reply chat GPT-generated? It missed the point of my hypotheticals (= people sometimes perce... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing The drain-circling that purported cable audibility causes could be avoidable. … A fellow HiFi guru says “I perceive no difference”, well, that poor soul doesn’t have sufficiently well-trained ears and/or resolving enough kit to cut it. A musici... | |
| Re: streaming recommendations for newbie andym23456 11 posts 04-18-2024 at 07:22am I know, why save them when I can stream them? Well, just to have them in case the internet goes down for a long time. @andym23456 it seems streaming services can and do sometimes pull albums / a... |