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| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts If I had said “an automatic gearbox is better than a manual, therefore streaming is better than vinyl” you might have had a point. But I didn’t so you don’t. | |
| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts I get it, I really do! For the same sort of reasons, I only build and ride steel-framed bikes - I would never want to own or ride a carbon fibre framed bike. I’m only interested in my sailing boat - I’d never want a jetski. I only brew and drink r... | |
| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts Don’t think so... let’s see. We listened to the youtube, web-linked, and 2 Qobuz versions of what (as far as I can tell) the same performance. Can’t know for sure. Each was sent to the same rig by Airplay at 44/16. Three inputs sounded very simil... | |
| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts Thanks for posting those links - fascinating.All subjective I know. To my ears the Youtube version sounds like it is the same as the one found on Qobuz labelled as a hi-res remastering. You can find on Qobuz the same piece without that remastering... | |
| About the importance of the room vs the electronics It is odd that some think it is vitally important to isolate their cables from vibrations and spend a fortune doing so, but they are happy to laugh at the much much larger effect of their walls being excellent reflectors, and vibrating at 70hz, an... | |
| Speaker Spike Philosophy The problem with springs is if they deflect they must rebound. And they of course have their own resonances when they do. So they must be damped. Try driving a car without dampers. So the damping is very much more critical than the spring in its d... | |
| Brainstorm Thursday. Are we approaching the Audiophile Singularity? Years and years ago the default for most listeners was a poor quality and distorted sound, and the exception was revealing accuracy and low distortion. The hobby was to push out of distortion and get as close as possible to accuracy. It seems wha... | |
| Cable Elevators Since they took down the pylons between the electricity substation and our town, and buried the cables instead, the sound quality of my system has changed for the worse. Guess what? Looser bass, narrower soundstage, and slower guitars! | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? Rushfan - yes, this goes to the heart of the matter. How an ear receives sound is measurable. Model it like a microphone. It reacts to air pressure variations pretty much like a mic does. A mechanical matter. The signal is precisely measurable and... | |
| Level matching for a/b testing? MC - what folks are doing is removing the factors that deceive the ears so that when they listen, they know they are listening to actual differences not perceived ones. This means that they can make better decisions for their system. They (but not... | |
| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts Anton - you set out the pass mark, you’ve done lots of work, so what was the result? Is directionality easy to hear as MC says, to the extent of 80-90% correct identification in blind tests? | |
| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts From the article: “Subjective measurements can be considered reliable if one expert or several experts in a blind test have estimates repeated in, say, 80-90% of cases.”So that’s the pass mark for directionality having an effect. Any results?Also,... | |
| Stirring Up Trouble Well, I’d never heard of Alan Watts. Wikipedia to the rescue! He sounds like a typical product of the English boarding school system - independent free-thinker, popular in his peer group of others with similar backgrounds, serial adulterer, poor f... | |
| Ethernet cables There aren’t many places left where “led by science, engineering and objective evidence” is a term of derision!Now you have said that “guitars sound faster” I’m convinced. You are right. That’s all that’s needed - now the cable you selected and in... | |
| Is it possible to bring your kids into this hobby? Erik - totally agree. It was building a studio, and the speakers, and wiring it up, with my son which really grabbed him. He’s now going to study music engineering at university in September, and he has his own band, and his own small music busine... |