dgarretson
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| Sundsmith rebuild. How long did you have to wait for the work to be done? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? To whip the horse's eyes with one more water analogy, "You can bring a horticulture but you can't make her think."Too much abstraction, Dorothy Parker? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon wrote, "by improving the way you think about things, you improve the way you perceive things."Similarly, as an English teacher once told me, if you can't communicate clearly in words, you are not thinking clearly. This thread evidenced clear... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? A fuller extract of ideas from G. Holt’s audio glossary seems relevant in context:1. Frequency response: Phase shift and distortion can sound like frequency-response aberrations.(Note 1: Perception of neutral frequency response may be subjectively... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Newbee, Sorry I was inhospitable. Your speculation that the entirety of this thread constitutes trolling is interesting. Even more interesting, the derivation of internet trolling comes from the practice of TROLLING FOR NEWBIES, as popularized by ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tolstoy: "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."Similar to Barnard Malamud's Roy Hobbs in the "The Natural", who tried with futility to hit a hectoring dwarf (troll?) in the grands... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Which part didn't you like, the Viagra or the sex? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Without disgorging the entire critical vocabulary, it may be worth exploring several aspects of coloration that relate to one listener's perception of neutrality. Anyone who prefers a boomy cabinet may go at it. It would be particularly interestin... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? The little blue pill may be a case in point regarding preference choices relating to neutrality and coloration. Of course there are more Subjectivists than Objectivists in this particular coloratura, so consensus tends to move in an upward bias to... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Mrtennis, For me the interesting aspect is deconstruction of the notion of coloration, which is often left unexamined by subjectivists focused purely on aesthetic enjoyment. Unlike a live acoustic performance, audio playback is at the intersection... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Byron replied to my last post with questions:(i) What about situations where you change a component and you get the result that SOME characteristics have improved and SOME have stayed constant. Is that an improvement in neutrality?(ii) Can you say... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw723 wrote, "All that has been suggested is that components may have either more or less coloration, and that it may be possible to distinguish one of those conditions from the other."My point is not too different from yours. Movement along a co... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? The process of incremental modding leads me to the hypothesis that most of the qualitative measures of sound are linked variables depending upon the independent variable of a circuit change. When a circuit is changed in small ways according to rat... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon wrote: "Admittedly, my operationalization is only a way to judge the RELATIVE level of coloration/neutrality of a system, not its ABSOLUTE level of coloration/neutrality."Maybe it's possible to move the discussion in a slightly different dir... | |
| Slagle AVC Modules & Lightspeed Attenuator I missed this review the first time around. I have been thinking about both approaches for an interstage volume control in my tube preamp. I will probably try the LDR approach first as it is so simple & inexpensive. |