dgarretson
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| Audiophile quality streamer/server-in-one without a DAC. Does this exist? Unfortunately I’m reminded once more of the South Park character Mr. Hankey the Christmas poo. It was based on Trey Parker’s early toilet training. He refused to flush the toilet, and his father told him that if he did not flush down his stool, wh... | |
| Clarity Cap lines All legacy ClarityCap models remain in production, but our retailers take different stocking positions depending on their individual marketing strategies. As CMR and CSA are priced close to MR and ESA, there is not much point in stocking deep inve... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? There are a couple of photos of the modded PD444 on my system page:https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/702#&gid=1&pid=2 I replaced the stock feet with machined brass towers and Stillpoints Ultra 5s-- with a fifth U5 under the motor housin... | |
| Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left/ Is it just a bad recording Listening now to FLL early Antilles/Island LP. It sounds wide open and lifelike and is very well recorded. | |
| 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. |