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| 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. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Amp manufacturers know that people are going to roll tubes anyway - it's part of the charm - so why not let them do that for themselves. | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line Think I’ll do that. Of course, my experience is not uncommon: Power Conditioners - Jay's Audio Lab | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers Vibroacoustics Really, we are just babes-in-the-woods as regards music's effects on us. There is a much wider arena of influence that may explain our befuddlement with the differences we hear between scoped measurements and our perceptions. ****... | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line It's not component noise based on what I am not hearing through my horns. If it's noise or voltage on the lines I have no way of knowing that. | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line My dedicated line made a big difference in system sound quality, but still it sounds best after midnight and into the witching hours. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Amperex Bugle Boy f your amps are running 12au7’s the Amperex Bugle Boy tubes placed in the central "gain" positions can be very good. However, buyer beware as I have heard these are sometimes Asian fakes. The two linked above look almost too goo... | |
| Sound and Music Some would consider this a cop out, but I find that a mild cannabis high does wonders for filling in the blanks. I consider cannabis to be a sort of sonic filter that nearly always agrees with me and is a part of my "system." Lots of musicians wou... | |
| Preamp for a GaN-FET amp... Yeah, I was wondering why Guttenberg had been ignoring it. He still hasn't touched on the May. |