bluemoodriver
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| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review Right - no help was forthcoming, so I've been reading into the meaning of a change from -105 to -115 dBV in a before and after measurement of the effect of these isolation stands. I think - and I remain very happy to be corrected in any of this -... | |
| Can a $750 system sound good? Of course! If you only spend money where it matters. Streamer - very marginal gains, if any at all, over a Raspberry Pi 4 plus Allo HAT. $100. DAC - Khadas Tone Board. Excellent. $100. Any class D low distortion amp. $300. Van Damme cables at $4... | |
| Schumann Resonator Earlier in the thread I suggested optimism or confirmation bias accounted for the perceived benefits of homeopathy and resonators. I hope it is coincidence that you woke up with headaches. But FOR GOODNESS SAKE don’t put dodgy electronics under yo... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review I’ll leave you to your belief that a difference between -115 and -105 dB in a small part of the frequency spectrum of some music is noticeable. My question is whether the graphs in the video show -115 to -105 dB changes between spikes or no spikes... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review Mahgister - I thought negative dB was below our audible range. By definition. That’s what I can’t work out with the graphs on that video. It seems the differences caused by spikes or no spikes are all far, far below what humans can hear. But why w... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review I need some help with the scales on the charts in that video. The left scale is labelled dBv. And the peak with spikes is about -105 on that scale. Am I right, that -105 dBv converts to -101 db?and when the isolation pads were used, the peak reduc... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review Coincidentally my dog just barked really loud. The room I’m in rang with a slower decay than her bark in the air. The dog has nature’s isolation pads on her feet but hey, the ringing still happened. If she stood on her claws when she barked, you ... | |
| Had an epiphany, what would happen when all of you die? I’m going to put in my will that my kids will inherit my iPhoto library and my Roon play history and library. The beauty of both is the time stamp (and in the case of iPhoto, a place stamp too). Maybe when I’m gone, someone might wonder “what was... | |
| Counterfeit Buddaheads? Just checked it out on Qobuz - definitely a deliberate effect. Reminds me of when I still had a turntable, and all intros sounded like that! | |
| For Your Edification and Enjoyment re "Burn In", etc. Douglas - an excellent article, congratulations. How refreshing to read sensible, objective, honest, thorough, grounded opinion, written well. Do keep reposting it here, won’t you, as needs be... | |
| Learning To Listen Dadork - great! I hope you enjoy it when it comes around. As I say, you probably know much of the basic theory they take you through at the start, but bear with it. I skipped some of it. Then those listening materials and tests came along and I k... | |
| Do pure copper banana plugs make a difference in the quality of the speaker sound. Yep, it seems the quality of the connectors is much more important than the cable between them. If you calculate the right gauge, any cable will do. But the terminus is the thing. I run the cables all the way to the driver and solder the connecti... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review Oldhvymec - you build you own too? I get the philosophy of no cabinets. I went the other way and made the cabinet part of the instrument; back loaded horns. The middle way (box cabinet, sealed, cube not spherical, loads of crossovers, and still h... | |
| Learning To Listen The OP asked for the key to the door of the fortress. Science and education is usually a good start. Just to puff that Critical Listening for Studio Engineers course I posted, I too have listened intently to music for 40 years or so, but I found ... | |
| Learning To Listen All the above - MC’s oddness especially - is why taking a course like the one I posted, designed and run by sound engineers in academia (where rigour and science and peer review matter) is such a good idea. |