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| How do you all ensure correct polarity with aftermarket cables? testpilotTerminals are clearly marked for polarity for the sole purpose to insure that both the Left and Right speakers are wired with the same polarity.That is mistaken. There can be other reasons that it's necessary to maintain polarity.For ... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp tomic601... ALL tubes to some degree ARE microphonic. Some less so than others- certainly a classic case is the 6922 vs 6DJ8. Huh? A 6922 is a 6DJ8. They're the same tube, just different nomenclature. | |
| AT-ART9 cartridge on Marantz TT-15s1 - I don't think I'm getting the performance I should izgoblin ... my cart doesn't appear to be tracking a lot of records well at all ... I've played a lot of '80s hard rock and metal, and I can almost count on any album from that era cut on the Atlantic label in these subgenres to give me dist... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital djones51If it’s digital in and digital out why do you have a modem?C’mon, are you really claiming that your ISP provides you with an analog signal? I suppose it’s possible, but it’s difficult to believe.Modem = 𝗠𝗼dulate𝗗𝗲𝗺odulate.My cable modem (... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital djones51... Consider how much time and money you have invested in your internet modem the device that reconstructs the analog to digital signal ...Huh? What kind of ISP are you using? My modem doesn't "reconstruct" analog to digital. It's digi... | |
| Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda! Loudness Wars. This is why some people still play LPs - the best sounding version of many recordings is on vinyl. | |
| Is there a magic formula for spending on components in a system winnardtHey millercarbon, You always seem to be a huge proponent of power cables and speaker wires having a huge impact on the sound quality. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but James Randi has offered a prize of $1 million to anyone who can demonstr... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? roberttdidNow if only someone had some independent double blind tests that compared competent and expensive cables ...hmm... 10’s of manufacturers, not one public test to promote their wares. Weird huh dude?Actually that’s not weird at all. I susp... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? speedbumpcleeds, Robert doesn’t even realize when he’s been out scienced on his blind testing theories, he never will ...@speedbump6, I’m not sure you’re right. I think Robert is a pretty smart guy. He’s a sophist who’s sometimes here to argue for... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? roberttdid You are being needlessly pedantic yet illustrating you have not actually done double blind testing and don’t understand design of experiments ... And again, you are wrong ... Wow, it’s like you really don’t understand design of experim... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? roberttdidYou just raised pedantic to a whole new level.If you think the presentation of facts is pedantry, then you’re confused. Here’s an example of pedantry: roberttdid Let me type this slowly so that it is totally clear. I have run many blin... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? roberttdidLet me type this slowly so that it is totally clear. I have run many blind tests with other people as the listeners. If I have a bias it is meaningless as I was not the test subject.You’ve just invalided every blind test that you have ev... | |
| Harbeth vs Vandersteen vs Sonner clearthinkerDon't even talk about the 'blades' used by amputees ...Yea, who decided to let amputees into the Olympics? Why should they be allowed to compete? They should know their place, right? | |
| Will a $700 turntable outperform a CD player? relaks... if you are going to collect recent shiny issues to play on your new TT, just forget about outperforming a good digital source. Simply because this "analogue" record is a conversion of a digital studio recording ...It isn't that simp... | |
| LP - first needle drop or 2nd or 3rd?? Handled properly, an LP can endure hundreds and hundreds of playings with no noticeable degradation, so I don't think it matters on which playing you decide to record it. I certainly don't think an LP becomes "accustomed" to a stylus and if it doe... |