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| Paradigm v/s PSB Find a way to get them both home, where you can test and compare in situ, as they say. Some dealers will lend speakers for trial. You might have to plunk down a credit card and buy them both--just make sure you know what the return policies are. I... | |
| Best inexpensive integrated for PSB Gold speakers. Well, going from 80 to 120 watts is not going to make much difference. As I recall, the PSBs are quite sensitive, so an 80-watt amp with plenty of headroom (a la NAD) should drive them pretty well, unless you've got a big room or a thing for ear-s... | |
| Do cables really need "breaking in"? A couple of cautions about Sean's "protocol" for comparisons. The side-by-side mono test does not cut it: If the two speakers are not in exactly the same place (a physical impossibility, of course), you get room effects, which can be very audible.... | |
| Do cables really need "breaking in"? Sean: First of all, I don't like participating in discussions in which someone tells me to "shut up." As for your "flat earth" reference, I don't think anyone here wants a discussion on scientific method, so I will only state that all of your expe... | |
| Do cables really need "breaking in"? More likely it was invented by cable purveyors, who wanted to discourage returns. "Don't like it? Let it break in some more." I've never heard of a properly controlled comparison of old and new cables, though you can expect lots of personal testim... | |
| Which is better XRCD or a 24 Bit CD? Remember that both of these are marketing terms to describe a mastering process. Or, rather, they are shorthand descriptions. That something is mastered in 24 bits means little. (I suspect an awful lot of conventional CDs are recorded and mastered... | |
| I can't believe there is no difference Well, Gunbunny, people here are always telling us to trust our ears, so my advice is to trust your ears. If you don't hear a difference between two components, the most likely explanation is that there is no difference. And given the state of the ... | |
| how to best a/b cables People who study hearing for a living use quick switching because they've found that humans do not remember subtle differences for very long (like measured in fractions of seconds). But there are lots of audiophiles who believe otherwise. Nonethel... | |
| how to best a/b cables I think your approach will work just fine--much better than switching cables in and out, which introduces a time delay that will be far more confounding than any minute increase in load from having a second set of cables attached.As long as you're... | |
| 2 channel home theatre? If it's just you watching, mute the TV. Ditto if it's you and someone sitting close to you. You'll only want the TV on as a "center channel" if people are scattered about the room, in which case at least some of them are likely to hear voices comi... | |
| Will people buy Snake Oil? Not until it gets reviewed. How big is your advertising budget? | |
| Simple, one-box solutions for HT-- Recomendations? Mezmo: It's probably too late for this, but my advice would be to NOT give your parents a whole home theater. They probably don't want five or six speakers scattered around the living room, plus even the simplest HT receiver is a complicated devic... | |
| Most Honest Audio Magazine? Pbb: If all receivers and CD players measure and sound great (Bose? Bose??!!), there's still a great hobby to be had working on speakers, speaker-room interactions, finding great software, even DSP, if that's your cup of tea. And that's not to men... | |
| Law of Diminishing Returns; where does it kick in? Your question contains a false premise, I think: that there's some real relationship between price and sound quality. There is, today, some wonderful stuff at very reasonable prices, and some really bad stuff with price tags in the stratosphere. A... | |
| How much money do you want to waste? Cable companies have a right to charge whatever they want, and consumers who can afford such extravagances are free to indulge. Some who can afford it but understand why it is that cables sound different will choose to spend their money in other w... |