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| Silky and soft highs: product of coloration? Jaybo, you mean the other way around? Grainy violins that turn silky smooth through amplifier? Either way, violins in real life do have a certain graininess and texture but also bloom and airiness, which are altogether difficult to reproduce.Chris | |
| Does Shunyata Hydra sound best with just one unit I have the original Hydra that doesn't have current/power limitation (except for the fuse). Does anyone also own this unit and which units are you plugging in to? Thank you.Chris (Netherlands)dazzdax@xs4all.nl | |
| Silky and soft highs: product of coloration? The reason why people are thinking that you shouldn't spend that much money on power amplifiers is: they have never heard how world's best power amplifiers sound! 90% of the amplifiers sound the same, that's why it will never become obvious with 9... | |
| Silky and soft highs: product of coloration? Dave, hmm, I don't know. I know at least one person (who owns only the finest audio gear) that the poweramp has the most profound effect on final sound, even more than the speakers.Chris | |
| Loudspeaker 'Back EMF' Back EMF is a phenomenon that has been used often for marketing reasons: to praise one's product (let's say a poweramp), because of it's handling of back EMF. But what does it actually mean? Nothing. Back EMF is a highly overrated phenomenon that ... | |
| Cambridge 840C, YES it is as good as the reviews Giant killers don't exists in high end audio. Period. Of course a $4k CDP sounds better than the very compromized (in terms of design and execution) Cambridge. This is a fact. The concept could be priceless, but the selling price is the limitation... | |
| Review: Straight Wire Crescendo Interconnect Hi again, do you know if the conductors withing the Crescendo interconnects are pure copper or are they silver plated copper? I notice a slight brightness in the upper treble (5-8kHz). Btw, are you familiar with Nirvana SX Ltd.? I think the Nirvan... | |
| Shootout: AMR CD-77 vs. AR CD7 vs. Wadia 581se Hi folks, I have a somewhat off topic question. If two brands are making/designing a SOTA CDP, one brand is a well known, well established one with big R&D department (let's say Audio Research) while the other one is a smallish company with on... | |
| Should I get the Art Audio Jota A phase that is being inverted by a component doesn't require correction elsewhere because up to 50% of all recording have been recorded with inverted absolute phase (unintentionally).Chris | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock So, why not go for I2S?Chris | |
| Threadbare and grainy treble, a DAC issue? Thank you for your recommendations Ken.Chris | |
| The Ten Rules of high-end audio Chadnliz, do you have some additional comments on the "rules" that have being posted?Chris | |
| The Ten Rules of high-end audio Bigbucks5: the examples you mentioned are two extremes of the spectrum. None will combine SOTA speakers with lousy speakers and none will spend only $99 for front end while owning mega $$$ speakers. Front end is relatively speaking more important ... | |
| AC plug benefit? Chadnliz is right, these kind of "tweaks" could give some improvements, but they are never "day and night" differences. That is one of the rules of high-end audio.Chris | |
| Customizing sound through digital interconnect Amfi, so if a digital cable sounds "different" than other digital cables, even if the sound has a more "natural" presentation (warmer, more fleshed out midrange, silkier highs and greater PRaT), this cable isn't a very good cable in theory because... |