bruce19
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| Bob Carver C-500 worth restoring and/or upgrading?? Nice story, your situation is almost to duplicate of mine except the 40 year old amplifier in question for me is an Adcom GFA-1. I have been told that both Bob Carver and Nelson Pass were employed by Adcom in those early days. Updating the hardwir... | |
| Bob Carver C-500 worth restoring and/or upgrading?? Nice story, your situation is almost to duplicate of mine except the 40 year old amplifier in question for me is an Adcom GFA-1. I have been told that both Bob Carver and Nelson Pass were employed by Adcom in those early days. Updating the hardwir... | |
| Why do we want to distortions? This growing consensus about the appealing nature of low and even order harmonics and repellent nature of high an odd order harmonics is fascinating. From a biological standpoint it suggests the question, “how did this come to be“? If we step outs... | |
| Why do we want to distortions? @atmasphere thank you thank you thank you!I have enshrined your message in Apple notes where I am sure I will refer to it frequently in the future | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... @dletch2 this has been a great discussion and as a technically conversant DIYer I learned a lot. In particular this statement of yours:“We end up where we started R, L, C. Take a cable with low R and high L, and it will sound warm, the bass even m... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Ohm said:“Yes and if you can manage, cold press the ends, no solder. Treat the bare wire before you install it into the bore with a good enhancer. Graphite dust works great. If you have to solder, use GREAT solder, that is another boo boo, people ... | |
| Initial disappointment with 1st set of “expensive’ IC’s... I wonder if anybody has ever put together two identical systems except for the cables and done listening tests? Seems like the only way to get around the qualifiers that you can’t move a cable and it Has to burn/break in for hundreds of hours. An... | |
| Favorite cable brand. Thanks @cromaudionut I like the blue jeans site and I like that schmitt cable site posted earlier in this discussion by @bob540. They tell you how the cable is constructed and charge reasonable prices based on that. This sitehttp://diyaudioproject... | |
| Favorite cable brand. Reason suggests that a cable’s properties would be the result of A) type of wire used, B) the geometry (weaving wrapping twisting), C) the insulation or covering and D) the cable ends. So if we don’t have things that we can measure that help us un... | |
| Favorite cable brand. @clearthinker you make a good point. I read this thread thinking that there would be some consensus among all the golden ears and deep pockets, but the preferences seem all over the map. I like the comments by @cromaudionut and @urbie because at l... | |
| MQA actually tested Wow, if this is true, and at this point it feels like it is, a lot of high-end manufacturers have some ‘splaining to do as to why they incorporated this and charge their customers for it. And I agree with the earlier comment this certainly seems t... | |
| Suddenly...one third of my tracks are 'unavailable' using Qobuz I couldn’t find that exact title either but a search turned up no less than 13 albums by Ray Charles with the word genius in them. I suspect that because his material has been re-packaged so many times the album you’re looking for is under one of ... | |
| Has Digital Audio Tech Plateaued - Is It Safe To Come Out Now? @rooze I think you answered your own question at the outset..."Yeah, I think I’ll just buy another tonearm.."Perhaps you can tell me, do you think analog audio has plateaued yet? If so why are people still "upgrading"? Why are there so many turnta... | |
| Is the appeal to euphonic distortion learned? @erik_squires You got me thinking and it might be learned but not from equipment. My hypothesis is that certain harmonics are more pleasing to the ear but they may be conditioned by the musical system we are accustomed to. My reading of Nelson Pa... | |
| Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk @nhb1 Because you love Folk and Jazz you get where this music came from. You want to enjoy the music more. Music that wasn't made for royalty or oligarchs, it is from and for regular people with challenging lives. You enjoy the soul of the music.... |