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| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @mahgister There are lots of ways to make records sound good and volume level is probably the best but then you get the industry corrupting volume wars of the 80s it was horrible. Tubes make things sound better you would have to be slightly dead n... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @mahgister Here is a story about perception that I've never forgot. I was doing the production sound (recording the actors on stage) on the TV show "Bones" about 5 years ago. I was using an excellent sound package with all the very best analog r... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @hilde45 Here's a little cut and past of my studio speakers on some of the benefits of being powered in just the crossovers. A small part of the design. The active crossover design offers multiple benefits: The frequency response becomes in... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I would say the only advance I’ve seen to XLRs in 40 years of professional recording is star quad it uses a ground and 2x + and - signals that phase out physically along the cable. Nearly all of the studios and all the production sound I’ve done w... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @hilde45 #1 Speakers and amps need to be made synergistically. Why "made"? Why not just matched? I know being an audiophile is really pretty tame and doesn't hurt anyone but I really don't like to see smart people believing in not so true id... | |
| 10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world. @mahgister Hey brother I'm cheering you on every time I se you sticking up for acoustics and psychoacoustics. There is a famous story about a recording studio in LA that was very popular they had a box called the "funk box" sitting between the mon... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @jon_5912 Yes, I mentioned those blue horn speakers because they are the speakers that mixers say “dude I got to mix on the blue horns”. They are fairly new and changing monitoring as well as the Genelec “The Ones” speakers that are much les exp... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mahgister Sorry brother you are still wrong about getting better sound than the studio for at least 2 reasons. #1 The 2nd law of thermo dynamics is entropy it says that you can’t make more information unless an outside source adds it, we’ve tal... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... I must say I agree with @mahgister in an important way, acoustics is missing in so many audiophiles rooms that are very serious about playback it's sad. The point of this thread is very simple - if you were serious about playback you would .... ... | |
| I Cried Today People here know the feeling of being lifted to another level of feeling and community that's why your post was so special. Thank you. | |
| Two questions to make you mad. @texbychoice Thanks for the thoughtful post and the reference. To your question I bought a Boulder Preamp and that made a huge difference, and I just added 2x power filters (old Firman AC conditioners) for my Subs that are always noisy, I've been ... | |
| Two questions to make you mad. @texbychoice When you have a logic problem you extrapolate and extend the terms, you do this in math and physics all the time to see if your idea is valid logically. I'll take the extended criteria down a little. The standard piece of test equipm... | |
| Two questions to make you mad. @texbychoice Ok you win fancy AC cables have nothing to do with accuracy in an electronic signal. | |
| Two questions to make you mad. @texbychoice Nearly all electronics (not electrical) changes AC to DC. After the power is changed to DC the AC part is done, yes the transformer, rectifier and down powering circuits are important but any audiophile grade AC to DC conversion is ... | |
| Two questions to make you mad. @mijostyn One of the reasons I'm not a big cable guy is because good equipment should have a good power supply, and audio equipment uses DC at low voltages so I've never understood pre transformer and pre voltage regulation in the last 6 feet be... |