dgarretson
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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? @chakster I'm not so sure about that. I removed the stock switch box from under my PD444 and substituted a thick, dense wenge wood subplinth that projects forward as a subplinth for a third tonearm mounted to a Micro Seiki brass tonearm board. T... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Gambling introduces one more variable. While some "claimants" may be stimulated to listen closely, others may become distracted and confused by stress. I hypothesize that the latter case characterizes most audiophiles... The best thing would be ... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @jinjukuThe main problem with your test(if I understand it correctly) is that it is a multivariable experiment. You swap cables 7-10 times at regular intervals throughout one track. Unfortunately the music is changing on top of the cable changes... | |
| What speaker cable made a major difference in the sound quality of your speakers?? The latter: as a shield floated from the conductors. I soldered a wire to the braided copper sleeve and connected that wire to the ground pin in an AC outlet. Each conductor is in a separate sleeve. Shielding improved upon the earlier unshielded ... | |
| What speaker cable made a major difference in the sound quality of your speakers?? An 8’ long DIY stack of 3/8" wide .999 silver foil, each foil wrapped in Teflon tape, stacked, and drawn through an earth-grounded shield of tinned copper-braided tubing. About 1.5 lbs. of silver in all, at the commodity price of $750 plus a long ... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Doug, if you listen to Jinjuku’s two posted hi-res files you will understand that he knows how to make an excellent recording from ADC to DAC to ADC. If the files are played back through your system, that’s all that’s important here. | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... That test is more Where's Waldo than ABX. Post two files of the same music, each recorded with a different Ethernet cable, and the opportunity to compare them at leisure. | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @jinjukuI’m afraid that your approach violates the basics of a proper ABX test. As ClarityCap’s OEM Sales Manager, I’m privy to research that we did with focus groups ABX testing coupling capacitors. This was done in conjunction with the graduate-... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @unreceivedogmaNo foul. I’m a cable skeptic myself. However, I’m more skeptical about the high price of commercial cables than about differences in sound between cables. All DIY cables in my system. | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @jinjukuTwo nice hi-res files and lots of fun listening. I could hazard a guess as to which sounds the best, but for a meaningful test kept to one variable we need to compare identical songs across the two cables. Any possibility of your replicati... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @jinjukuCan your test files be downloaded for playback? If so, let us know how to find them. | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... (Sigh) For this thread it would be nice to confine the "great cable debate" to Ethernet-- which is at least a fresh context for cable discussions. To paraphrase The Kinks, other Kable Kontroveries are sufficiently covered in the archives. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt, I think you over-estimate the depth of the DIY "rabbit-hole." In the past year, the approach of using a single-software package like Roon on top of an i5 or i7 NAS, together with a EN renderer, has become almost plug & play with performa... | |
| Should high-end shops be "OBLIGATED" to advise about component matching for best sound? @stringreen If it was an Accord then you're not as old as you think. The brand was introduced in '76. | |
| How often do you clean cables? And which types do you clean most often? Doug, discolored oxidation on unplated silver and unplated copper is often visible, but contaminants on gold plate that appear transparent on the connector(or hidden inside RCA and XLR panel plugs) become obvious with transfer to a swab. Whatever ... |