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| Bi-wiring/Bi-amping...worth the fuss and expense? Bi-amping can definitely make sense. Whether it'll make a difference depends on the load your speakers present and the quality of your amplifier.Very few people bi-amp, however, so speaker manufacturers, especially at the low end, may not feel the... | |
| Digitally remastered vinyl? Anyone who thinks such LPs sound like CDs cannot have listened to one. A vinyl LP of a digital master is going to have all the sonic quirks of vinyl--good and bad. These recordings were presumably digitally remastered in the course of producing CD... | |
| Any opinions on NAD quality? A dealer would say that. NAD seems to change factories frequently, or else use multiple ones (in different countries). That seems to be part of the problem, and my experience says it has been a recurring one. | |
| New DAC or New CDP? I'd take a one-piece Arcam over everything else you mentioned. | |
| The triumph of mid-fi Ozfly: The high end is a pretty small market, and only a subset of that has embraced either of these formats. Given that, it's not surprising that smaller companies are sticking to the sidelines for now. There just isn't a big enough market for th... | |
| Why is Double Blind Testing Controversial? Rzado: My point on retesting is this: If something really is audible, sooner or later somebody is going to hear it, and get a significant response, for the same reason that sooner or later, somebody is going to flip heads instead of tails. If you ... | |
| Why is Double Blind Testing Controversial? Thanks, Rzado, for the refresher course. Let me try to summarize for anyone who fell asleep in class. In a DBT, if you get a statistically significant result (at least 12 correct out of 16 in one of Radzo's examples), you can safely conclude that ... | |
| Why is Double Blind Testing Controversial? Socrates: You've asked a mouthful of questions. I'd suggest you start out with this site: www.pcabx.com, where you can download software that will allow you to conduct your own DBTs.I don't want to get into statistics, except to say that's usually... | |
| Why is Double Blind Testing Controversial? Drubin's right about double-blind: it means that nobody in the room knows which is which. And researchers use it because they've learned that there are all sorts of ways that someone can subconsciously indicate which is which to whoever is actuall... | |
| A question about cable break-in Gentlemen, let's calm down here. Sean, thanks for the offer, but the difference between you and me is not that you hear something and that I do not. The difference between us is that you believe the change you hear is the result of some physical c... | |
| A question about cable break-in Dave, even better advice would be to consult any basic electrical engineering textbook. That will tell you everything you need to know about cable break-in. | |
| A question about cable break-in It doesn't really matter how you do it. The result will be the same. | |
| Is 5.1 Really This Bad? Well, Perk, I must admit that even before this experience I wasn't planning to go out and invest in a 5.1 system anytime soon. But I recognize the inherent superiority of multichannel over 2-channel reproduction, if done right. And this was a lot ... | |
| Copper v. Silver The only meaningful difference between silver and copper is that silver is about 6% less resistant, for the same gauge. Go one gauge lower (i.e., thicker) on the copper, and it's a horse apiece. (I'm speaking only about the metal here, obviously, ... | |
| CD vs LP - Who cares when it's a crappy recording? There really are substantial differences between vinyl and digital; among the digital formats, the differences are much more subtle (excepting the number of channels, of course). But overall, I'd rather listen to a good performance on a boom box t... |