clearthinker
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| Why should audiophile deniers be allowed on an audiophile forum? Free speech is mostly utilised as an opportunity to state one's ignorance. This thread has been a complete waste of time and energy. I did not open pages 2, 3 and 4. I am sure they were the same as pages 1 and 5. | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? Back in the day I bought a lot of LPs from Roger Hewland who had a shop near Waterloo Station in London. All his stock was shelved totally at random and he had a lot of shelves. His only concession to order was to put new arrivals in a separate ... | |
| recommended speaker cables and interconnects Not a sensible question OP. Most people accept that interconnect and speaker cable changes can have effects on the sound. These effects arise mainly because of the interaction of the cables with the active components they are connecting rather t... | |
| Favorite religious song There are 10 or 12 really great songs from Dylan's 3 album Christian period. When the greatest lyricist of the last 100 years writes something, it's likely to be ground-breaking. There are a few duds as well but hey, he was totally committed. S... | |
| Do power supply units/cables make a difference in sound quality? We've been through all this dozens of times in the last year. Clearthinker has his head screwed on properly. I'm not with the dreamers who think they can hear differences in passive well designed mains cable and even fuses but they will never ag... | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. Good luck! I hope you surface in a place that suits you. | |
| Amir and Blind Testing "So, playing a piece of music the subjects don’t know on a system that is not like their own and asking them to compare that sample to a slightly changed subsequent sample is a waste of time, not a universal truth. Most of us have several pieces o... | |
| A CD PLAYER whose sound quality NOT AFFECTED by the DAC? Don't be silly. Digital sound cannot be heard without a DAC unless you have digital ears. But OP is correct in implying that DACs are the Achilles Heel (or is that Hell?) for all digital sound. Clock error and dither can never be eliminated. | |
| Is it ok to stack LPs horizontally? @heretobuy Goodness, that rig looks highly unstable on its tiny angled feet. Anyone who has lifted that number of LPs knows how heavy they are. A dog or a small child could accidentally knock it over and the falling LPs cause injury or wors... | |
| I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day Carriers can be careless and sometimes stupid. But responsibility lies with the manufacturer. Original packaging must be engineered to take what the shippers hand out. After that, if the packaging fails and the item is damaged, the manufacturer... | |
| “House” Character of Popular $20-$30k Speakers @nyev Some many years ago now Martin Logan realised that if the driven membrane is arrayed in an outward curve the sound waves spread wider and widen the sweet spot. Since then all MLs have a curved panel or, where there is a two-way system, e... | |
| SQ or performance? Why are you all putting up YouTube presentations in a thread about sound quality? The SQ is dire. Recordings made after about 1950 can be very good SQ. Before then not really; you are listening for the performance. | |
| Installing dedicated 10 gauge lines @mrskeptic Love it! You are utterly and totally correct. You may join my club. But a blind testing rig could be created in a large lab. The power cable and fuse guys and all the other snake oil people hate blind testing because it proves ... | |
| Is it ok to stack LPs horizontally? OP has 'run out of storage space'. So why does piling records horizontally occupy less space than vertically? The records have a fixed volume. And yes, horizontally will cause warping after a while. Gravity will act on the less well supported ... | |
| “House” Character of Popular $20-$30k Speakers @nyev You like fast? You think Magico is fast? Try panels. Especially electrostatics. |