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| Your experiences with system synergy It may not be 'system synergy' at all. It is more likely just OP's listening preferences. | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @ricevs Thank you for insulting me. Of course I listen. Listen, not imagine. | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @roxy54 Don't mean to be condescending but you and some others perceive that it does. The only way of being sure is a properly staged double blind listening test. These are difficult but not impossible to arrange. Just changing a power cord i... | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @jasonbourne71 Indeed! But what about the 400 yards of cable from the local 8kV transformer to your home? And the 10 miles or whatever to the power station? You can't change those. Why these people think six feet of cable, or a wall outlet,... | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @jasonbourne71 Hi Jason. Re your first post, most of us keep our ESLs connected to power full-time. So when OP switched cords the speakers were already fully powered with electricity supplied via the low quality cord. The low quality electric... | |
| The new Linn LP12 50th Anniversary edition It is still just a Linn but with more trick components. However much is spent it will never overcome the flaws in the original design | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers 1. My CLX Anniversaries came with pretty heavy trick expensive looking power cords. They sound wonderful to my ears. What I say is substitute them with regular 12 gauge and see if you hear any deterioration. 2. OP says he substituted the tr... | |
| AI and the future of music You listen to it if you like. Ref new Beatles songs, we've been there with The Rutles. The brilliant parodies, all written by Neil Innes, were: "Hold My Hand" - 2:31 "Number One" - 2:50 "With a Girl Like You" - 1:50 "I Must Be in Love" - 2... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? Stealthcraft Mute Specials. Never buy speakers without listening first. Nor any other component. | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? @roxy54 If we limit this to sound quality I will answer. Back in the late 1980s I did a day's auditioning with a friend. Between us we had a lot of mainly Audio Research and Krell gear - one all valve, the other solid state. We consistently fo... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? DACs are the bane of digital. Once you smash the music up into billions of tiny pieces, no-one can put it together accurately. Dither and clock error cannot be eliminated. This is why people spend big bucks on 'better' DACs. But the pieces sti... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Bald statement with little evidence. This is trolling. IGNORE | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium "Like a pair of Louis Vuitton sneakers @ $650 a pair vs. New Balance runners @ 60/pr. It's snobby bragging rights stuff I'm describing here- perceived vs. actual value in a product." Perceived value is more complex than that. If I can sell the L... | |
| Turntables: 2 Tonearms. What do you Have or Know About? If you have a Simon Yorke Aeroarm you can swap out carriages with ready set-up carts in about a minute. Spare carriages are much cheaper than additional arms. | |
| Is simpler better? Invariably. And it's more elegant too. |