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| Pads or Spikes? Salamander 5 Shelf Rack Due to space limitations my audio rack had to be the one above, so bear in mind that piling 200lbs total of lead bricks on top of some components and their shelves was all about mitigating vibration and creating more inert... | |
| Your Most Prominent Audio Component Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences There is enough variation in brain neuronal structure to make large differences in music processing or as we might call it - "musical intelligence." | |
| Your Most Prominent Audio Component If neurology can be likened to capacitors and resistors then technically we are the most important component, and the variations from one human to the next vastly exceed the variations in components. An audiophile has to pay more attention to the ... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? The gist of this thread had to to with the possibility that any metadata was a potential pollutant of the musical information. When I used to download albums from allflac.com removing the "cover" file from the track list before loading it into JRi... | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? I have considered adding on, but building is so expensive now that it is easy to just be content to love the one you're with. | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? I have never streamed, so this may be a dumb question, but in the case of Quobuz, for instance, which is the outift from which I download, is every single file fetched for play tagged with an image of cover art? Is that cover art separate from the... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? By the way, I am working from the start with .wav files here. Everything in the Quobuz "Download Store" that is "CD quality" comes as a ,wav file. | |
| 4x Upsampling On My Transport Benefits of Upsampling | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? Working inside a Faraday cage sounds oh so metaphoric for working at a Scientology lab. | |
| Opening of Audeum Museum Wold love to hear some of those beasts in the flesh. | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? A little while ago I downloaded a CD quality CD's worth of music (Sarah Janosz) from Quobuz. Once on my hard drive I deleted the "folder" (image of Janosz) from the list of tracks, uploaded the files to JRiver and was interested to see upon openin... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? Wav vs Flac Here is a somewhat more nuanced take on the issue. The author is responding to the article that started this thread. I should stress here that I am not playing my files off of my computer - merely using the computer to store these fi... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? The more interesting point of this article seems to be that both Flac and Wav are sonically adulterated by metadata during playback to the extent that fidelity is somewhat harmed. A significant portion of my digital library contains flac files dow... | |
| Pads or Spikes? Agreed, but coupling to the floor or shelf with weight is another thing entirely and especially so with components that are not especially beefy. It can make a huge difference in sound quality in a reasonably compact package. A lead brick 2x4x8 in... | |
| No discussion about the Synergistic Pink fuse? I love SR fuses but will probably go no further than the Purples. Fuses are "filters" quite obviously. I don't know why the grumps get so worked up over them. Everything in the electrical chain is to a greater or lesser extent a filter. |