cd318
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| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? <@marklingsShort answer, no they don't.Long answer. There is such a small differnce that the average person would not be able to pick up. Thos golden ears that will be able to do so will not experience an enlightenment of their musical enjoymen... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Yes, quite right. Let's abandon blind testing. In fact let's abandon all scientific criteria altogether and wallow in subjectivity going round and round ad infinitum according to mood.If that floats your boat, by all means go for it. Just don't tr... | |
| Speakers for aging audiophiles - What's with today bass emphasis ? @marklings, couldn’t agree more with your conclusions except to add that ported designs can also sound a little more relaxed in the bass regions. The bass often seems able to breathe a little better albeit at the cost of some definition. Many are ... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @djones51 some will always argue that blind tests are useless. If this is so, then sighted ones must be ten times more useless because vision adds nothing to the objective evaluation of sound as anyone working in sound production will readily test... | |
| Speakers for aging audiophiles - What's with today bass emphasis ? The Harbeth M30s are more refined and better balanced and it's difficult to think of anything better of a similar size. Before making that investment though it may be worth trying some form of isolation underneath your Dynaudio BM6s. Either some f... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Everyone should buy more expensive cables, especially if they can't hear the difference between what they already have. You have to consider directionality, skin effect, interference by gamma, cosmic and Wi-Fi signals plus secret government wavele... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Oxygen free copper cable is very difficult to better. In fact any copper cable is difficult to beat.Solid core, silver plated, directionality all seem to make no difference to me. In fact I recall a demonstration by QED at a Hi-Fi show in London w... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? @timlub , Spendor SP1s are huge by modern day UK standards, but point taken. I think I’m kind of fixated with the idea that the 50s and 60s were ruled by loudspeakers often the size of wardrobes. Probably seen too many vintage ads where some attra... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @stevecham It's also funny how no pictures of ghosts or other supernatural phenomena have appeared in recent times despite the number of cameras now in use worldwide going off the scale.Kind of puts centuries of anecdotal evidence into context. Hu... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? @johnk, do you feel that your experience explains why audio history is littered with mainly classic large speaker designs such as JBL L100s, the Klipschorn, various Tannoys including Westminsters /Golds and many many others?Yet it's hard to recal... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? @kosst_amojan, yes it can be a very complicated business getting good sound. Some get lucky with their setup and room from the get-go. They seem to be easily pleased with modest equipment, whilst others suffer for years on the treadmill to audio n... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? @kosst_amojan, yes I can remember reading Ken Kessler writing about how the fabulous Apogee Scintilla's with their 1 ohm load only came to life spectacularly with Krell amps.Unfortunately reading about them is as far as I will ever get with such a... | |
| Have l become unstable? No, not unstable, at least no more than the most of us, given the territory.As far as your ATC's go, it might be worth considering whether if any loudspeaker/amp combos get much better than yours. Exemplary engineering, legendary midrange unit, fi... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? @wolf_garcia wide, short, fat but definitely not small. I wonder whether efficiency (or should I also say ease of drive?) is a key factor in creating the illusion of reality. Ease of drive has been a Klipsch hallmark since the beginning of audio ... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @prof If a blind/double test can’t reveal obvious benefits of vastly more expensive cables then it’s like throwing money at the moon. It may make you feel feel reassured by quietening the audio paranoia symptoms induced by clever marketing and pse... |