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| Longer speaker cables or interconnects It’s not an issue. Even cables running thousands of miles exhibit minimum loss or signal or time distortion as long as there are no breaks and freedom from interference.The speed of a signal through a cable is not far off the speed of light. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Isn't this all a bit like trying out different waxes and polishes on your roadster and then waxing lyrical about the performance gains?Wouldn't all this energy not be better used in finding improvements in engines and transmissions? ie transducers... | |
| DeVote Fidelity O/96 versus Wilson Audio Sabrina/Yvette You have my sympathies, you really do. This sort of thing is really difficult as I know from experience. You do the research, narrow down the candidates, arrange listening sessions with specifically prepared test disc - checking dynamics, timbre, ... | |
| please help! which turntable , michell gyro se ,, pro ject rpm 10 carbon ,, avid diva 2 ? If it has to be one of the three, then I would say the Michell. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic There is a whole lot of frantic trick cycling going on here and subsequently a damn lot of persistent peddling. Zero clock times though. Or evidence of any kind other than anecdotal.A $10 CD player sounding like a $10,000 one after contact cleaner... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Before we get carried away by the wondrous qualities of various contact enhancers etc please bear in mind the size of the electrical tracks on circuit boards, coil wires inside loudspeakers crossovers and cartridges etc. Somehow, miraculously the ... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic @geoffkait <cd318@amg56 I wouldn't get too upset about these ad hominem arguments. These are usually the last resort of desperate individuals who have little interest in sharing the truth, but maximum interest in peddling their wares under pret... | |
| Are The Hi-rez portable media players of today that good About a year ago I began to use my budget Android smartphone instead of my Sony mp3 player. I had been putting it off for ages because I 'knew' it wouldn't sound as good. It didn't.However with a little tweaking of the built in equalizer (did that... | |
| Fundamentalist Fervor Anyone with an interest in audio is at liberty to spend as much money as they wish. Some may simply want maximum sound quality for their money, some may want certain features eg tone controls, equalizers, USB inputs, some may want certain aesthet... | |
| Sorry to hear about David Wilson- I was particularly saddened to hear the news about Dave Wilson. He genuinely seemed to be one of the most sincere and earnest characters in audio. He made no bones about what he was after regardless of price, and what he was after seems to please... | |
| Which is the best audio magazine? Peter Aczel was a man of strong views but he had an enormous amount of experience in audio. He could be described as the James Randi (supernatural sceptic/ buster) of the audio world. His views were never refuted and its unlikely they ever will be... | |
| Which is the best audio magazine? @roberjerman, yes you're right. It's difficult to get past the feeling that audio journalism is still nothing more than a way to pay the bills. Most of it should be seen in a similar context to pornography, glossy images that are fun and easy on t... | |
| Which is the best audio magazine? I agree with the poster who said none. The best ever was probably Peter Aczel's The Audio Critic http://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic_down.htmHugely controversial unsurprisingly, much vilified but never refuted. It took me ages to accept... | |
| Floor standing speaker isolation advice needed. @jriggy Yes, you shouldn’t need fancy stands but it definitely a good idea to let all the speaker panels breathe freely. All Harbeths are constructed that way to allow the resonances to fall below the threshold of hearing in terms of frequency ran... | |
| Floor standing speaker isolation advice needed. @jriggy Whilst you may see improvement by trying out different stands with the Hatbeths don't forget that they are probably the most advanced speakers ever built when it comes to controlling resonances.Everything from driver material, driver mount... |