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| Chinese fake cables How fake, how good? I’ll take Chinese ’fake’ OFC copper (99.95% copper or the higher purity 99.99% copper) cables anytime of the day over extortionately priced strange hybrids be they interconnects or speaker wires. I have absolutely no need to be deceived by ’genuin... | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? @jafreeman, agree totally - it evolves and moves to satisfy different demands. Times change and needs and demands change. Money will follow demand.Headphones and Bluetooth speakers bring unprecedented levels of quality and portability. YouTube and... | |
| The sonic rightness of a mono system. @bdp24, I much prefer colour film to black & white yet somehow virtually all of my favourite films happen to be in black & white (The General, Sunrise, Kane, Casablanca, Wuthering Heights, Psycho, The Last Picture Show, Manhattan etc)!As f... | |
| The sonic rightness of a mono system. Perhaps the key is this -"Maybe our brain gets fatigued trying to fill in for what is missing stereo is an artificial technology designed to fool the ear brain system maybe that in itself is the problem. Mono just sounds right."Mono generally feel... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? @mikelavigne, the classic red and yellow 'Iron Man' look of the darTZeel 108 is surely a matter of taste. I think that the looks are impressive and must play some psychological role in the appreciation of it's sound. Others may find it rather out ... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? @mikelavigne , "basically i’m a tube guy who owns solid state."That's also true of most of us here, isn't it? I just wish someone would put out a solid state amp in tube disguise. They say looks aren't everything, but they're certainly something. | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? @lewm too modest. That should be clear to anyone (wherever their vested interests may lie). | |
| Mag Lev Turntable. Your Thoughts? @folkfreak , good link. Glowing review with lots of positive signs already. Interesting also to read the following:"I also know companies around the world are looking at upgrades for the ML1 and the engineers at Maglevaudio.com are also working la... | |
| I lied to my wife about the price of Stax 009S headphone It appears there's quite a variety of buying gear approaches adopted by the various dissolute members of the audiophile tribal communities.@jnovak , now there's an understanding woman with her priorities the right way round!My wife also wouldn't s... | |
| Am I the only one who doesn’t love Harbeth P3esr? @rambo21, it can be a little disconcerting when you start wondering whether it's the world or you that's wrong.The Harbeth P3ESRs are almost the cornerstone of the loudspeaker world (at least when it comes to mini - monitors) in the same way that ... | |
| Mag Lev Turntable. Your Thoughts? Intriguing it is, spectacularly so. Without having heard it I'd guess it's as good as anything under $1000. Why wouldn't it be?If it can be made to work properly it could get rid of two of vinyl's inherent bugbears (rumble + wow and flutter) in on... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? @brianlucey, Thanks for the input! Great to have someone with hands on experience chime in here."1. Mastering and production are most of it. You’re playing in the margins for subjective enjoyment NOT for better quality with SRC" (sample rate conve... | |
| Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Well there is no question that since 2009 all the digital versions have had the bass turned up a notch or two compared to the version George Martin himself put out in 1987. I would have preferred a far more subtle increase in bass as a result of p... | |
| What does the term "Speed" mean in a speaker? The issue of loudspeaker speed (like almost everything else about loudspeakers) seems to be endlessly complex.Here's an interesting interview with Allan Hendry of Monopulse loudspeakers.https://www.monopulse.co.uk/quest.htmIf what he's saying is c... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? @beetlemania,"In blind testing with foobar "comparator", I could reliably distinguish 24/44 from 16/44 but not 24/44 from either 24/96 or 24/192. So, I am a fan of 24-bit files!’If you’re attempting to generalise then that’s a hugely iconoclastic ... |