edstrelow
Responses from edstrelow
| The science of opinion ... This looks like it was published in an on-line forum. As a one-time experimental psychologist I would say that this paper does not meet basic standards for publication because of the lack of documentation of the procedure followed in its experi... | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Hole CD Mat - Wow! I am not sure if I will buy this although I suspect that it could be good and I agree with the importance of the cd vibration issue. When I take out my old portable cd player I am astonished at the amount of vibration that you cane hear and feel. ... | |
| Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking... I can certainly see why you would like the effects of adding sorbothane to headphones. I have been pointing this out for some time. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/damping-mechanical-energy-distortion-of-stax-and-other-phones-with-sorbothane-a... | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? So annoying to hear categorical claims such as 'all do' or 'all don't.' Does it not occur to the people making such claims that 'some may' and 'some may not?' Like many claims of physical characteristics in audio, these should be amenable to ph... | |
| Phase Inversion, to flip polarity or not Interesting analysis kost_amojon, I will have to think about this. For my part when I have had a phase switch I seemed to notice changes on transients such as cymbals. Otherwise I haven't ever noticed much. I take notice about the observatio... | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement I agree with several suggestions here including cleaning your ears. I suspect that most here are male and older and thus already losing high frequency hearing. Ear wax build-up definitely makes this worse.I also recently tightened the drivers in... | |
| Shocked removed spikes, used blue tack, what other non spike footer There are a number of separate issues regarding the mounting of speakers on spikes and footers. Some folks may need to decouple their speakers from things like wooden floors which are bouncy. I have seen some people report that sorbothane foot... | |
| I'm having a really hard time with: "Power cable reduced my soundstage"... I recall my first upgraded power cable, hooked up to my Stax headphone amp. I was sceptical and would not pay more than $50.00 as an experiment. I was surprised just how much benefit it gave, increased dynamics and bass in particular. I assume... | |
| Differences between cd transports? Curious the number of persons who want to argue about the merits of cable vs toslink even though the initial poster is using toslink with both transports. So this is irrelevant. That said, the cable crowd seem to think there is only one kind of t... | |
| The Science of Cables Thank-you taras22. As for eric_squires all I get from you is an appearance of personal jealousy. Dismissing a detailed argument as irrelevant shows no analytic skill and is a lazy thinker's way of trying to dominate a conversation. You have bee... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? I have owned only B+O linear trackers over the last 40 years and have been very happy with them. Very elegant looking, simple to operate, no fiddling and extraordinary sound. I started with the original 4000, I believe it was called. I modified... | |
| The invention of measurements and perception I am more struck by the absence of basic measurements of physics in this field. One problem that I have been working on is the extent of vibration especially in headphone cases and speaker enclosures. I have never seen one measurement reported ... | |
| The invention of measurements and perception "Foundations of Measurement" in 3 volumes, Krantz, Luce, Suppes, and Tversky. Academic Press.You might know the last author as a Nobel Laureate."This I believe refers to Amos Tversky who did not win a Nobel Prize. | |
| Brilliant Pebbles, a new tweak, cheaper than high end cables. These things have been around for quite a while I believe, and still not even a hint of what principle of physics is supposed to be involved. The statements about them are just meaningless generalizations. | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound There is a lot of confusion here between theories and evidence. Merely having a plausible explanation for some phenomenon does not mean it is a correct explanation of that phenomenon, e.g. a suggestion that good cables have less susceptibility to ... |