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| 1s are 1s, 0s are 0s, right? Picking up on your last paragraph, I'd say you are probably just hearing things in this case. (Which doesn't mean you're crazy, by the way. Tests show that humans have a tendency to hear differences even when none exist.) There probably are some r... | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? What makes you think there have been any great advances in analog gear in the last 20 years? It's a dead technology, kept alive at hugely inefficient cost to serve a small corps of avid fans. Anybody with any engineering ability is working on some... | |
| your top 5 classical cds There is no accounting for taste, as I am about to demonstrate:--Bach: Lute Suites (guitar transcription); John Williams. --Mozart: Concerto No. 5, Sonata (K. 378), Quintet, (K. 516); Heifetz, Piatigorsky, Primrose.--Beethoven, Symphony Nos. 5 &am... | |
| Unequal cable lengths for home theater???? The difference is resistance is actually trivial. Remember that resistance faced by your amp includes both the cable and the speaker. So if you're using 12 AWG cable, the difference in resistance between a 2-foot length (0.0034 ohms) and a 10-foot... | |
| Paradigm Monitor or Studio? Given that you have a sub, the rear port may be less of an issue on the bookshelf. But as far as I know, Paradigm makes no bookshelf speakers with a front port. Are you sure about the Monitor 3s? (Maybe I'm just looking at an old catalogue, but I ... | |
| XRCD Technology What it's indicative of, Bus, is the median age of purchasers of high-priced audiophile disks. | |
| XRCD Technology XRCD, as you seem to have deduced, is a mastering process. The resolution, and other technical details, aren't really important. The JVC guys simply do a very, very good job of mastering. That's why they sound better than the original releases (an... | |
| inferior p-mount cartridge? P-mounts, as you might imagine, involve inevitable compromises, and what audiophile wants to compromise? How much more fun to be able to tweak VTA and such. But if you aren't familiar with VTA and such, installing a conventional cartridge can be d... | |
| hardwood floors and spikes I always thought the point of spikes WAS to "drive" them into the flooring, in order to anchor the speakers securely. If that's the case, what's the point of putting the spikes on something hard, that the spikes can't penetrate? What am I missing ... | |
| converting to gitital Well, I didn't do that. I added up the cost of replacing the LPs I didn't want to be without, and bought a new TT for about a third of that amount. Since then, I've replaced a fair number of those LPs with CDs, anyway--partly because I found mysel... | |
| What is your cost for each system category ? Here's an example of why such questions are next to meaningless. I'm in the process of replacing an integrated amp with separates. (I'm getting a new cabinet, with somewhat limited ventilation, and I don't want to put an amp inside.)Now, this will... | |
| What componant degrades the signal least/most? Speakers (and the room). | |
| Technics SL-BD20D? It's the only choice under $150 complete. (Everything else comes with a heavy-tracking, proprietary cartridge that will slowly grind your discs to powder.) If you can stretch it, however, a much better value is the SL-BD22, available at www.jandr.... | |
| Diagonal setup of system... Standing waves, which are a function of room dimensions more than speaker placement, are probably not the main factor here. What you've really done is changed the inflection points (where the sound bounces off the walls) and the arrival times of r... | |
| Technics TT question...Psychicanimal? Grado makes a p-mount version of its lower-range cartridges. At the high end, Grado has both fans and detractors, but in the sub-$100 range, their offerings are tough to beat. |