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| Premium Power Cable Survey: The Results Are IN +1 @mrskeptic The survey was of OPINIONS. Not hearing. It has no value. Only double-blind tests have value. Hearing is not purely a mechanical process. Unfortunately there is your brain between the sound and what you hear. | |
| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? This just demonstrates how we are ruled by the sub-conscious. Such irrational excitement goes a long way to explain reinforcement syndrome because we WANT the new piece to sound better. Beware, and try to be objective. But actually there is not... | |
| Do You Clean Your Ears? ...what? | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? @roxy54 You nailed it. Massed violins. Far too often they sound like mush, even on costly systems. Especially on digital. It seems the digits have trouble resolving multiple HF sounds that are all playing the same tune. If you can hear ind... | |
| ONE MINUTE Premium Power Cable Survey One minute is too long to spend worrying about power cables that cannot affect sound. Spend your money on stuff that makes a difference. | |
| Question: Sound Treatment behind the Listener? You will get some reflection from the back wall but it will be low intensity as those waves will have travelled some 20 feet before they reach you. Being of a practical disposition, I suggest you hang some heavy blankets on the wall behind you an... | |
| Meandering Pitch, Where’s The Problem? Hey everybody, let's get clear about off-centre spindle holes. Do you have speed instability on EVERY record? if so, it can't be off-centre records - they can't all be off-centre. Anyway, you can see an off-centre record when it's in play - the... | |
| Cartridge Advice Please @mijostyn OK. I don't do politically correct, running Krell KRS200s. Anyway, how can Anna Netrebko, or Ortofon for that matter, be responsible for Putin invading Ukraine, any more than I am responsible for the British slave trade. And why ca... | |
| Tidal class-action No good can ever come from this streaming pigs in poke false tech. And chapter 11 bankruptcy is usually used so owners of bust companies can cheat their creditors and get back into business the next week, free of debt. It should be stopped. Its... | |
| Is It Common For Questions About Gear For Sale To Go Unanswered? Yup, leave him along if he can't be bothered to reply. | |
| Cartridge Advice Please I have ART1000, Ortofons Verismo and Anna, amongst others, mounted on Simon Yorke S10. All are very truthful and have wonderful tonality. The Anna has a little more authority and dynamics, if you like that, but you need a hi-mass arm to balance ... | |
| Budget re-cabling Speaker cable for $5 per foot? Hmmmm. I think this post is a piss-take. | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? We've all been here before. Over and over. Look at old threads. Basically..... Concrete floor, especially laid on the ground - spikes Suspended wood floors and most everyrhing else - decoupling. | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? I think 'snooty' is where a dealer is disdaining or dismissive of a customer, particularly a young customer, who hasn't much money to spend. This happens quite a lot. | |
| Power Cable for CDP @mrskeptic +1 @chikin2000 No. All sources require the maximum spend on power cords. A good rule of thumb is to spend no less than three times the cost of the player. |