erik_squires
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| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? There are three types of wine tasters:1. Those who don't know or care about differences. 2. Those who are delight in buying $300 bottles of wine3. Those who know what a $300 bottle of wine tastes like and buys a $30 that is just as good and deligh... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? @elizabeth Spraketh thus: I agree you CAN make a satisfying system, but you are totally fooling yourself that it is, IN FACT, as good as systems ten times the price.So we can infer your arguments are:Price always equals performance and qualityThe ... | |
| Soulution preamp DC-offset protection Gang,This is a unique, but by no means the only, DC offset solution.Many solid state electronic makers employ some sort of servo circuit with very long time constants to actively correct incoming or outgoing DC bias. I say SS makers, because 99% o... | |
| My experience after lost of 20k$ Is this thread a joke?? | |
| Do different routers affect sound quality Also, USB from Laptop is very good, but often the Laptop power supplies are crap. Same advice as above. Keep the power supplies away from your audio electronics. | |
| Do different routers affect sound quality No, but the wall warts do. Keep them outside of your AC power conditioner.Also, keep wifi devices physically far away to minimize chances of picking up RFI/EMI | |
| Where can find the circuit of this power distributor Are you sure you didn't alter room acoustics at the same time? Erik | |
| Making my own power cord. You do realize that any IEC with a ground will fit, right? It's perfectly safe. What is not safe is when the equipment requires a ground, and you disable it. | |
| 20 Amp Power Cables into a 15A Power Conditioner None at all assuming the plugs fit. :) You can always go thicker than spec, but not thinner. :) | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers Perfect. :) | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers Be sure you ask Lee for advice before you buy your crossover. He knows his stuff inside and out. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Listening to lots of acoustic live music gives the best benchmark for building an audio system. If that's what you want to reproduce. Accuracy is not the goal for every audiophile. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Conversely, hearing what reviewers claim is "the best" which costs a million dollars, and knowing your are happier with your system that was quite affordable can certainly make you an insufferably smug bastard. That's pretty much what happened to ... | |
| Best receiver/amp for warming up Monitor Audio Gold 300’s Arcam | |
| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? Important to note that a lot of SACD's aren't just re-issues, they are completely remastered. Listen to the one that sounds best to you, but we can't judge the relative encoding merits with those. |