eldartford
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| 1s are 1s, 0s are 0s, right? Unsound...The electrical signal that transmits digital data (a pulse train) can be greatly distorted, and the receiver can still reconstruct the original data perfectly,Your example: 010101 vs 0 1 0 1 0 1. I believe you are thinking of jitter.How ... | |
| Do we break in our componets or do our componets ? Just one point about "believing one's ears" as opposed to trusting electrical engineering science.I fly airplanes, sometimes in the clouds. When flying on instruments it is quite common to have a very strong feeling that you are turning left or ri... | |
| Do we break in our componets or do our componets ? Mrowlands...It is impossible to prove a negative. It's a darned good bet that the air in your listening room doesn't require breakin, but I can't prove that to your satisfaction, and if you want to believe that it does, be my guest. | |
| Center Channels sound crappy Mborner...If this "redirection" was not being done, center channel info would be missing. In other words, if you were set up for 5 channels, and the speaker wire fell off the center front speaker, something would be missing. | |
| Arm Differences ...... ,etc. Audiophiles love arms because there are so many complex angles and dangles to adjust!The dirty little secret is that a Linear Tracking arm eliminates all these sources of error, many of which cannot be eliminated over the full range of arm motion ... | |
| What LP shows what analog can do? Vannorm...I tried it for-30 plus years.Some CD's are lousy, as you describe, but others are good. Same can be said for LPs. | |
| Do we break in our componets or do our componets ? I am sure that EVERYONE agrees that Loudspeakers change (hopefully improve) with initial use. The compliant surround softens up with flexing, so that the dynamic characteristics of the unit change. There is similar logical reason to accept that ph... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy Mborner...Semantics again! I took "phantom" to mean the sound image that occurs naturally between two good speakers that play the same sound, and which can be very convincing. I think that a better word for what you describe would be "synthesized". | |
| Center Channels sound crappy Edesilva...I think we have a semantics problem. When I say "center" I mean where the thing is located, and when you say "center" you mean a particular design of speaker. For music I use, and advocate a center (located) speaker that is identical to... | |
| XRCD Technology The message I am getting is that XRCD technology is no different from other CDs, but the folks who are making these particular discs are simply doing a consistently good job of mastering. I have long been aware that audio quality varies a great de... | |
| AV Racks. What difference does it make? Viggen...Shape, damping..AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES is what I said. Some materials are easier to make resonate than others. Bells are usually made of metal, not styrofoam. However, a metal structure can also be non-resonant if it is designed and buil... | |
| Need to wire up my house Maybe you should run conduit, rather than wires, so that you can change your mind about wires from time to time, without tearing up your house. | |
| Another Time and Phase thread Viridian...Say the word and we'll beam you up. | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Chucknms...In discrete multichannel recordings (SACD or DVD-A) the center channel carries sounds that are simply not there at all in the Left and Right channels. No amount of superb imaging can recover this information.You really ought to take the... | |
| AV Racks. What difference does it make? Materials don't have any natural frequency. They have properties like mass, elasticity, etc. Natural frequency is determined by the shape into which the material is formed, how it is attached to other objects or otherwise damped, and the abovement... |