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| Shieded power cable with small gauge conductors I am still laughing. If you tell me a PS needs small gauge wiring to sound good, it means the designers skimped on it and are using the very expensive cable to act like part of an RL filter which should have built into the design in the first plac... | |
| Calling all room treatment type specialists... Talk to your local printing and sign store. They may have a scanner big enough, or e able to point you to a photographer who could do it justice. | |
| MQA - Music Discussion @ahendler Hi! To rephrase what you have heard, it seems that MQA did not add much for you. I did the same thing and I didn’t hear any MQA benefit either, but to be fair, the provenance of those tracks is unknown. How they got to be MQA I’m not sur... | |
| DEQX Beginner seeking advice Actually, plugging ports is a good thing to do when using active EQ. :) It reduces the acoustic order from 4th to 2nd, and increases dynamic range. The end result is a 4th order electro+acoustic high pass instead of 6th order, not to mention the ... | |
| MQA - Music Discussion What I’m most afraid of is that I may just not like how 2L records classical music, at all. :) It's far too close to the bridge of the violin for me. So I wish i had another MQA source. I may end up going with Buena Vista Social Club if I can get... | |
| MQA - Music Discussion Right now, MQA is making grandiose claims about improving sound quality. Then when I ask for a demonstration the MQA Apologists start saying it's subtle..... :) If I have to hunt for the benefits wiht a microsope and tweezers it's DOA for me. Best... | |
| MQA - Music Discussion I just re-read Paul McGowan's blog post and so far my feelings mirror his. Don't read it if you haven't though, listen for yourself first. :) Best,Erik | |
| MQA - Music Discussion I like your choices. :) Try them! I honestly don't know. Personally I've been comparing 96/24 to MQA with the idea that it's about the same file size, so let's see which one sound better per gigabyte. :) But this is not a highly controlled experi... | |
| Shieded power cable with small gauge conductors A $300 power supply needs a $500 cable? Hahahahaha. :) Best,Erik | |
| MQA - Music Discussion Well, not sure I"d buy EVERY copy, but treat the re-mix as a remix as opposed to an A/B comparison. If you've ever heard say, the John Coltrane remix, you may have heard how different it sounded from the original CD release, which has nothing to ... | |
| MQA - Music Discussion Yes, correcting for errors at input and end part of the cycle is how they claim MQA sounds better They have a "generic" mode when you don’t have access to the original A/D to measure though, so it IS possible to take a Redbook CD track, MQA it and... | |
| Wilson Maxx II problem I don't think that's what they are saying.What they mean is that the specific characteristics of the custom Focal woofer can't be recreated by an off the shelf driver, so you must buy Wilson's since they are the only source. In other words, no oth... | |
| MQA - Music Discussion One of the cool things about HD Tracks (though I know many always want to beat up on Chesky) is that if you click on "About This Album" it will give you details about that. They state for this album, that they went back to the original recordings ... | |
| Wilson Maxx II problem Not really. I mean the luckiest you could get is that the crackling is caused by a bug or other trash getting stuck inside that you could blow out, but that's highly unlikely. I'm actually surprised by the way you are describing the sound, that's... | |
| Shieded power cable with small gauge conductors Shaq,Build some yourself if you'd like. DH Labs makes reasonably good cables at normalish prices of $5/foot. http://www.partsconnexion.com/DHLABS-75520.html |