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| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About I found most of these expensive so made some myself but didn't like the result. Judging from what is now available and the prices, I think many audiophiles may have lost interest. I'm going to try them on my new system but found that jack pad ad... | |
| Power Conditioners My electric company put a whole house surge protector behind the electric meter. It's something only the utility can do, but is the best way to prevent surge. It comes with a multi-thousand dollar insurance policy. Costs $10/mo. on my bill. On... | |
| Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry? My experience is that the tech is not all mumbo jumbo. That said, in my new system I shopped for cables last and found that the prices in many cases were out of sight. I found that the cost of new cables even in the middle of most manufacturers ... | |
| o.k anybody know anything about shm-cd they claim there indistinguishable from the master? I have a couple of SHM's that do sound better, including Black Sabbath Paranoid. Also excellent are Sony's Blu Spec CD's and Blu Spec CD2's which are made using Blu-ray machinery and laser processes. The thing to do is try these in your system p... | |
| Beryllium Tweets Regarding the Yamaha NS-5000, here are some "specs" for zylon vs. beryllium. Yamaha says the "sound velocity" is comparable to beryllium. Keep in mind the same material is used for all 3 drivers and Yamaha uses a big dome midrange, not a cone. ... | |
| What are the sexiest components ever made? Transcriptors original turntable is in MOMA - the Museum of Modern Art in NYC - for a reason. It was resurrected and remanufactured by different investors twice I believe. If it was modernized again I might find a reason to get into vinyl just t... | |
| Unbelievable None of the worldwide reviews on the NS-5000 mention the effect of the finish as improving the signal to noise ratio, just that the finish improves cabinet rigidity. With the introduction of the speakers to the US, Yamaha I believe changed this c... | |
| How many NICE looking high end floor standing speaker are there at present Research on the topic "Influence of Visual Appearance on Loudspeaker Sound Quality Evaluation": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282774936_Influence_of_Visual_Appearance_on_Loudspeaker_Sound Quality Evaluation. This appeared in the Octobe... | |
| CD sound quality: original pressings vs regular remaster vs MFSL, etc I recently found there is a disc from Japan called Blu-spec and Blu-spec2. Both produce redbook CD using Sony blue-ray production equipment and have been available since 2008. The process was improved in 2012. As an experiment I purchased the s... | |
| Amps with meters ... With your eyes closed, green ketchup tastes the same as red ketchup. Open your eyes and it doesn't. | |
| Technics SL-G700 SACD\Network Audio Player I'm looking at this as well, especially because it plays MQA-cd's, of which there are a few from Japan. I'm confused though because it says it upscales PCM redbook cd's or DSD encoded redbook cd's but does not convert PCM cd's to DSD, which the M... | |
| Well maybe it IS my hearing One overlooked area of hearing is....wait for it....ear wax! If you don't irrigate your ears regularly - and properly - you'll be amazed at the sound after you do. There's only one way to do it properly, the way physicians recommend, with some w... | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers OK, I'm not an expert but in a review of a speaker with a 328mm base driver (12.9") it says the 2 speakers left and right together would output 1,060 square centimeters of air, while a speaker with 4 - 170mm drivers (6.7" ea. speaker, or 8 total s... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! There's great bang for the buck at every investment level because audio and video electronics have consistently delivered more value over time. Today, it's pretty hard to buy a crappy system at the $15k total level if you read reviews and listen.... |