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| How crucial is the quality of a digital cable? Hello motown-l. The cable quality is critical. Yes, it's "just" ones and zeros. But how distinct is the difference between them? How "fast" is the cable? Is the difference between them quick, clean, and sharp? You hear about "jitter." That is time... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable Hello davidvanderbilt. The Zavfino is the best USB cable I have. It beats Wireworld and Furuteck in my systems. More detailed and refined sound. You can hear that the wall behind a particular orchestra is made of brick. | |
| Open Baffle Experience Try it! You'll probably like it. Placement in the room can be critical. My best system is the Linkwitz 521 with one amp per speaker, eight amps in total. Very easy to build; no annoying joints to master! Enjoy the music. | |
| Why do Tube Amps sound more romantic v SS amps Sadly, the warmpth of the tube amp is caused by the 2nd order harmonic distortion the tube amps tend to produce. You will notice that often, tube amp's power rating re rated at 1% to 10% harmonic distortion. It gives a richer, more "warm" sound th... | |
| Do I need a streamer? It seems to me that the issue revolves around the ownership of the music. Streaming gives you access to an enormous library of music - almost everything ever recorded! Streaming enthusiasts are often not interested in owning physical media, since ... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp Hello calieng! Nice photography! That cap looks pretty good. It's purpose is to keep high frequency noise from riding out on the B+ line. I would add a .01 capacitor in parallel as well. Keep the leads as short as possible. I'd use the fanciest ... | |
| Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? I am using 3 different DSP technologies and they all improved the sound in the rooms in which they are used. I use: whatever Emotiva offers in the MC 700, whatever Integra offers in its receivers, and whatever DSpeaker (model 2 or some such) uses.... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment Hello Paul6001. All the sound waves move at the same speed. The wavelengths vary with frequency, but not the speed of their travel. We are trying to reproduce music that arrived sometime in the past on the diaphragm of a microphone. We do not wan... | |
| Does Equipment Break In, or Does Our Hearing Adjust? Hello tcotruvo. Equipment, cables, speakers, etc do "break in." While Nordost uses 8 or 9 conductors for each leg of a cable to a speaker, you can buy 50 conductor ribbon cable ($0.65/foot) and have 25 silver plated conductors in each leg of "sp... | |
| Focal Sopra No 3 vs Goldenear Triton One.R I have been very impressed by the Triton series and own three different models. I think they are some of the best values in audio. Give them 5 hours or so to break in if you purchase them brand new. They sound a bit cold out of the box. | |
| Help finding a subwoofer Subwoofers ar very profitabe but not very difficult to build. Checkout Parts Express for a wide selection of pasive and active kits. You can save $eriou$ $$. Don't spend thousands. Happy Listening! | |
| Magnepan .7 Alternatives Hello flasd! The Maggies are telling you the truth. If the music sounds bad, it's because the music was badly recorded. Although dynamics are a bit compressed with Maggies, the details are what they are famous for. I'm on my third set of Maggies ... | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? Hi danager! If you bought your gear at WalMart, cables probably won't help. If your gear is from well known, quality companies, it's worth an experiment. Are you using ordinary lamp cord for speaker wire? Lots of us do. It should be 14 gauge or l... | |
| WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Hello jiii 12. You have good gear. I think you may have a problem that can be solved by changing/upgrading cables. Here's a cheap and easy experiment: Get some ordinary 14 gauge zip cord (lamp cord) from a local hardware store. Get enough for two... | |
| Did you notice.... I must agree, a good CD player outperforms any streaming service I have used. It is handy to listening to new music that gets a good review. But I seldom agree with the reviewer. If I really like it, I buy the CD. Happy Listening! |