cakyol
Responses from cakyol
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? JBL S3900 | |
| $10K Budget for Speakers: Martin Logan Masterpiece vs Tannoy JBL S3900/4429 if you have the amp to drive them... | |
| Are Shakti Stones effective? I hear that there are some stones from Mars that really improve the sound, especially in a vacuum. They are a bit costly at over 23 million bucks a piece but well worth the money :-) | |
| Should I use long interconnects, or long speaker cables? The rumble could simply be the fact that your tt bearing is worn, which means changing the cables will not make a difference.As for cables, both for speakers & interconnects, the shorter they are, the better they are. | |
| Basic technical question about digital source signals The relevance comes from the fact that the infinitesimally small jaggednesses that any instrumentation can see, if any, is irrelevant to the human ear. | |
| Basic technical question about digital source signals Read about Nyquist’s theorem.Today’s samplers are even higher. Philips (and others) made a study of this during the 70s before the first CD’s were defined and introduced, and used thousands of people in listening experiments to reach a conclusion.... | |
| The Great Cartridge Shootout Many reasons to stick with digital :-) | |
| Bass Driver Size - how much better is an extra inch? It is an engineering compromise, just like almost everything is in life. It is basic physics.The larger cones move more air and hence provide a much more realistic and voluminous bass. However, the larger the cone gets, the less rigid it becomes, ... | |
| Are cable recommendations worth anything? As you have also noticed, it does NOT make any sense and you will not hear any difference. A $50 cable is good enuf as long as properly shielded. Any similar priced phono cable will do just as well.millercarbon is from another planet who can hear ... | |
| Is there anyone out there who has expert knowledge of upc1237 ? Thanks,You are right. It is probably much safer to go with maybe an external 24 volt transformer giving about rectified 35 VDC. This way, I can keep the capacitors at lower voltages (hence a bit cheaper) anyway.Thanks | |
| Amplifier warm up Yes.Temperature changes will change the biases in transistors and hence make differences.It is almost like an ICE engine. It runs better when it is warm. | |
| Do pure copper banana plugs make a difference in the quality of the speaker sound. These are the desirable things in a speaker wire/connectors:Must have low resistance so as to not increase the output impedance of the amp. You get that by using better and thicker conductors. Copper is fantastic. So, the purer the copper, the bet... | |
| Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo? It is all a personal taste. Some do like it, some do not. I do. | |
| High end stereo preamps? Worth it? The breakpoint where the price of a preamp can no longer be justified is probably around $2k or so. Anything over that, you will not hear the difference :-) | |
| Footers Under Power Conditioners? I wonder if a meteor passing a million miles away could change the earth’s magnetic field to a point where it may affect the output of my MM cartridge..... |