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| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers On my GanFET Audions the bass was so impactful that I had to disconnect one of the two hot wires to the REL S812's. This was advised by REL if your system has so much bass that is cannot play louder than position 5 on the REL volume knob without c... | |
| Musical Expectation Bias What does the "R" in PRAT stand for? | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers I have had Audion MK 3’s for a few weeks now. It is the most educating experience I have ever had with a component. The difference that different cabling makes is much more apparent than it used to be. Moving around different brand cables within t... | |
| Musical Expectation Bias It apparently depends on what and how your brain hears things. | |
| Cable elevators My cables are suspended by the wood Venetian blinds directly behind my component shelving. The blinds are shuttered to keep out the sun from the double glass doors that used to be one of several passage ways to an outside deck. Now forever blocked... | |
| Occam's Razor: The Signal to Noise Ratio LOL | |
| Jazz Mount Rushmore I'm a sucker for Coltrane's "Ballads." That's a large club of listeners. Still stuck on Larry Coryell's "Barefoot Boy," but that is because there are many life associations and memories agglomerated around it, and it was a breakthrough of sorts w... | |
| Occam's Razor: The Signal to Noise Ratio Not to anyone in particular - the signal to noise ratio on internet forums dwarfs every other example in difficulty. Would that it were that diffusion and absorption could buffer human discussions. Alas, there are times when only "mute" does the t... | |
| What songs do you listen to to test a system's midrange performance? Sinatra's "Wee Small Hours Of the Morning" album is a mids feast. It's almost cheating the question because it is so good that it sounds at least good on most systems. On an advanced system it is pure pure. Whenever I think of this album it is as... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers The elephant in the living - the gauge of the cable wiring. For instance, on my system running Cornwall 4"s - a high efficiency speaker - changing speaker cable gauge has obvious and logical impacts on sound. Going from 10 gauge "western electric"... | |
| Flexible Power Cords I like the red cloth covered power cables that came with my Audion MK3’s - they are deliciously flexible and fat and work well with the Audions in that they tame just a tad the ferocious dynamics of the amps. Flexible power cables work best with t... | |
| OCD mickey website and negativity. I like to watch OCD have his nervous breakdowns and then recover. In the recovery stage he can be charming and level. It can be suspenseful and entertaining to watch him go though his process. He is the very embodiment of the hyper audiophile, and... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! "Lets face it, if there was a majority of people acoustically informed the industry will collapse to essentials..." That's what is often said about "global warming." Welcome to the jungle. | |
| Free air, tighter bass - snake oil or cheap tweaks? Rubberized Drawer Liner This perforated, rubber drawer line is very good for sound and vibration dampening. There are several manufacturers of it. Available also in other colors such as taupe. | |
| Sound and Music I was a "music lover" long before I built up an audiophile sound system. Now I am a "tinker, tailor, soldier, spy" out to uncover the most cryptic audiophile secrets. |