carl109
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| How do you protect your cables on the floor? If you have timber floors, and access under your house, I'd drill two small holes in the floor and run the cable under the floor.You can easily fill the holes later when you no longer need them. | |
| Best Speaker Cable Terminations I'd do my best to fit the cable straight into the binding posts if possible; the less connections the better.It's true copper oxidises, but this happens slowly on the exposed copper (not the bit clamped inside the post), and it's nothing that can'... | |
| CD Player break in period Cerrot: "made the flaw in the recording evident"...This is a bit of a tangent, but if you spent just five minutes in a professional recording studio, you might realise there's no such thing as a perfect recording.In my former life as a muso and ha... | |
| CD Player break in period "After a half a day, I hooked it up and the sound was incredibly poor. Very hard sounding, harsh mids and highs, narrow soundstage, no impact to bass, no definition."That's a pretty damning review of a piece of high-end gear, warmed up or not, and... | |
| Need budget CHEAP speaker cables This was just posted a few days ago in a similar thread, and is definitely worth reading:http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm#introductionThe gist of it is that provided you buy decent quality copper with sufficient gauge for the length of c... | |
| DAC or new player ? "I wanted to embrace the digital way"... me too! That's why I found your thread interesting. I wanted to buy a good CD player, but was told I might be better off buying a separate DAC for my Denon DVD player, until I saw how expensive they are. No... | |
| DAC or new player ? Along the lines of this thread, can someone explain to me why stand-alone DAC's are so much more expensive than some of the great-sounding integrated CD players? Given the high quality DAC's already built-in to many modern CD players, I can't get ... | |
| "The Death of High Fidelity" There seems to be a big problem with "Remastered" CD's that get released too. I still enjoy my Duran Duran, and was recently excited to find one of my old vinyl favorites, "Seven & the Ragged Tiger" on CD. That excitement plumeted when I playe... | |
| Silver-plated or single metal IC's? Thanks folks. And Leica man, wow what a memory. I'd forgotten my own post!I'm in Australia, and most audio stores here sell stuff prepackaged. There's a few places that are serious about their hifi, so I will try to follow my own advice and find s... | |
| James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all The only way $1M can be won is if the cables are tested scientifically, using a tone generator and oscilloscope, to feed a signal in one end and measure how perfectly that signal arrives at the other end. A listening test will never work due to th... | |
| Food for thought for all us audiophiles Curious that the response to this article has led a few members to actually fall into the holes the article refers to. S7horton has decided they "disagree"(?!) with the graph; on what basis? Because it might be right? Of course it's true that not ... | |
| Are most budget & mid range amps under-powered? Porziob: "Not everyone chooses to listen 105 db @ 3 meters."I wasn't suggesting a constant listening level of 105dB! The articles I read referred to a system being able to deliver an unclipped momentary PEAK of 105dB, which equates roughly to a li... | |
| Uneven speaker wire runs Just a point of order, audio signals don't travel at anywhere near the speed of light. Only light in a vacuum travels at 300,000km/sec. Even light travels at less than this depending on anything (eg. gases) it must pass through. The speed of an el... | |
| Why are there no high end cheater plugs? At the risk of sounding naiive, surely the potential improvement in sound by removing the earth is well and truly overshadowed by the risk of killing yourself or a family member from a live chassis or case, should a mains fault develop?Just my 2CW. | |
| Accurate vs Musical It's actually quite straightforward to me. I would use the term "accurate" as an objective term to describe how well a speaker reproduces the exact waveform as fed to it, without any frequency troughs or peaks or other tonal coloration. Such speak... |