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| Audiophile Fuses - Are We Certain They Provide Protection? three_easy_payments Is it reasonable to expect consumers of fuses to spend hundred of dollars on an accurate power supply in order to test and trust the fuses ...Don't be silly. I don't think anyone has that expectation. But audiophiles buy all... | |
| Critical listening and altered states hilde45What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening?The plus: You’ve altered your state of mind.The minus: You’ve altered your state of mind. | |
| Herron VTPH-2A vs Rogers PA-2 Phono Preamplifier lewm ... if you’re using an LOMC cartridge, you’re basically listening to an FET. If I understand the Herron phono correctly.Not really. It's not unusual for a tube phono section to use an FET at the MC input. ARC does this in its Ref Phono pre... | |
| older CD transport vs newer ones. audio-union... CEC transports use belt drive systems to reduce error rate, also know as jitter ...Error rate and jitter are two different things. Errors result from inability to read data. That is actually rare - because the data is interleaved a... | |
| Sound-Smith retipping chakster... when it comes to cartridges he is the one ...No, @chakster he is not "the one." There is a staff there that works on cartridges. I’ve been to Soundsmith - it’s a very impressive place. | |
| Sound-Smith retipping chakster... who is David Moskowitz ? Peter Ledermann did not touch this cartridge.Soundsmith is not a one-person shop. Not even close. | |
| What CD player/transport has the most stable mechanism? hgonzal ... I did pick up the K-05 and it is very, very nice ... when you put a CD in the tray and press Play, it sounds like a Ferrari ...That does not sound like a good thing at all. | |
| 8-Tracks and Open-Reels: Who’s Got ‘Em and Whatcha Got? I usually try to avoid absolutes but I think the 8-track may be hands-down the worst consumer audio format ever - perhaps even worse than 78 rpm shellacs. I never messed with it. A properly made cassette could walk all over any 8-track.And yet, th... | |
| DAC general question ibmjunkman As I understand it the actual DA function is done by a single chip ... Am I wrong?Yes. It's quite common for DACs use multiple chips, such as in balanced configurations. And as @verdantaudio noted, some use FPGA chips, which are esse... | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread oregonpapaBe assured that I have only one membership.Same here, and I’ll also keep reporting the off-topic or spam posts. Enough is enough. | |
| Thinking Out Loud bob540 A bigger issue surfaced when I realized the Freya+ doesn’t have a dac, not even for phono use. Why would you need a DAC for phono? | |
| Auditioning headphones (ethically)? freediver... Nowdays dealers REFUSE to discount ...Not true. Dealers give discounts to their best customers. | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... douglas_schroederWe will always have half the audiophile community who build poor systems.Huh? It seems to me that most audiophiles are fairly happy with their systems. Isn’t that what counts? The cable skeptics do so brilliantly. Do you think the... | |
| MC cartridges rdk777There's no such thing as bad manners, especially if you're the buyer.Ahhhh, but there is such a thing as bad manners. Customers who understand that are the ones who get the get the best deals. | |
| RMAF 2021 Cancelled larry5729... why don’t audio manufacturers advertise in magazines and TV. I think the manufacturers are leaving a lot on the table.Most audio manufacturers lack the economy of scale to advertise in mass media, which isn’t really suitable for niche... |