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| Classics and Cults. Bogus Journalism? Oh there was the Beverdige preamp, a Roger Modjieski design, beautifully made and executed, an early two chassis job and expensive, done and financed by the speaker people, also long defunct. Harry Pearson at the time was so infatuated by the SP 8... | |
| Classics and Cults. Bogus Journalism? Again a great thread you are starting. The amp you mention, was it the Rapaport? If the audio writers would not "discover" new stuff to rave over, their rags would bore us stiff, no one would read them anymore, no more advertising. Finito. All thi... | |
| Blind Listening Tests? Musicians have to be trained to listen to "systems" in very much the same way we've trained our listening acuity through the long years of our hobby. This is, because when you sit and perform in the middle of other performers, such things as sound... | |
| Blind Listening Tests? Hi Sugarbrie, fascinating point you are making. My experience were rather to the contrary though. Will put it to a double blind test (; and yes Jademo6, tell your wife its purely scientific and between you and me, they should be over 16.... | |
| RCA vs XLR Thanks Brauser for your sensible post. XLR against RCA is neither a matter of faith nor of simple specs and "science" generalised. The proof lies in the listening! At least that has been my experience too. An afterthought: Balanced power lines, be... | |
| Blind Listening Tests? I've found blind tests, be it in a rudementary fashion or through elaborate setups, always helpful. What is wrong about trying to objectify, what we are percieving? I tend to rely heavily on female ears. Women, as far as our hobby is concerned, se... | |
| Burn In = Voodoo? Jim, Megasm gave you the infos I also would have, had he not come first. Its definitely worth a try. The Cable Company is very serious business. Robert Stein is very helpful. I've been dealing with them for over ten years now and never got bad adv... | |
| New tubes every year...or every five? ? Hi Garfish, this is just a guess, but I think its probably the Sovtecs and not the SF. My experience has been, that Sovtecs seem to age rather quickly with exactly the sound-effects, which you describe and this not only in the Jadis, but also in t... | |
| New CAT owner with a few questions???? Grandpoobah, I have never owned a CAT, except those with furs of course, so take my remarks as being general:Cartridge loading:If you like big and spacious soundstages, do not load, just leave it at 47k ohms. Loading makes a big difference in soun... | |
| Burn In = Voodoo? Sean, I like your post, simply because I can underwrite every point you make. Incidentally, I also have this nifty German machine, which indeed DOES nake a difference.(Careful though, because Jostler rightly pointed out my autosuggestibility (; Wo... | |
| New tubes every year...or every five? ? Musicslug, true what you say, but then there is also tube aging with its slow and gentle deterioration, which is indeed hardly noticable. Generally you only realise the need for change when you have indeed done so. That's what's bugging us. So rig... | |
| New tubes every year...or every five? ? Hi Gregm, what a great story! What we should probably get, is a tube tester with the necessary charts, then we could objectify what we hear. If remember correctly, there was a thread also about Jadis and the Aesthetix Io where Albert Porter told u... | |
| New tubes every year...or every five? ? CWlondon, hi! I have a Jadis front end for about five years now. I listen dayly from one to three hours plus one hour warm up time. I use Telefunkens salvaged from old gear, however paired and measured for noise in my headamp and the phonopart in ... | |
| Burn In = Voodoo? Jostler, good point, had to grin when I wrote my thread, thinking, that finally it would prove nothing, because it might only prove my own suggestibility. About phonewires though, aren't phone signals very narrow band? Well whatever, your point is... | |
| Burn In = Voodoo? Jostler, would you mind doing an experiment: Step one: Listen to your system with music, you know well.Step two: Without detaching your wires from you gear, i.e. ic's, speaker- and power cables, lift them up, shake them vigorously, place them diff... |