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| AV Racks. What difference does it make? Slappy, vibrations affect sound by smearing it. With turntables the relationship is intuitively obvious, but the fact is that vibration affects transformers, which are present in all audio components, motorized devices (like cd platters), wires (m... | |
| Avalon Opus without bass ? Though I've never had a problem with woofer height and bass, I agree with Tom on the issue of distance to the wall behind the speakers. Usually in speaker setup, one of the first issues to solve is the distance from that wall so that bass is neith... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Okay Corona, supposing that it were somehow possible to eliminate the modulating effect of vibrational motion on the fields carried on a/c cords (and I'm assuming you're talking about mechanical and not electrical resonance), what percentage of th... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Nothing is completely neutral but there are degrees of closeness. Audio electronics companies like Meridian, Spectral, Linn, Levinson, Goldmund that design complete systems do strive to convey the signal end-to-end with as much linearity and as lo... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Good idea, now there's one Everest missed in his acoustics book :-)Why would it be so hard to look for component synergy? There are probably only a small number of components and speakers you would seriously consider anyway. It's the cable voodoo ... | |
| Which cables go with what????? With all respect, Nighthawk, I disagree on the first paragraph. People usually do their best thinking in the areas they work in, and its pretty easy to distinguish serious content from a sales pitch. RCrump actually writes all the time at the AA C... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Audioengr's original post and replies to it like Sean's constitute what I think is an interesting and important question. As an engineer, I'm well aware that the putting together of optimized systems is normally done by a design team that would ne... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Keep at it Audioengr. This is an area long overdue for both measurements and some consistent engineering thinking on how to put systems together intelligently. Most audiophiles can probably agree that the wire game, including and especially power ... | |
| Which cables go with what????? In response to the original post, cable differences go deeper than coloration. Two cables can be equally neutral on chromatic scale, yet differ greatly in macro/micro dynamics, noise floor, speed, clarity, detail resolution versus smoothness, and ... | |
| Best amp for Avalon Eidolon speakers? Lloyd, I honestly don't believe there is a single best amp for Eidolons. Provided you give them enough power and current, Eidolons are so neutral that they will reflect whatever character is passed to them. In that case, it is mainly a matter of ... | |
| SACD/DVD-A Anyone tried Yamaha or Integra? Sorry, Socrates, what I'm saying is that I have this equipment available because that's the way my high end system is set up so that's what I use, and the Denon sounds good this way. I just added it to my main system and routed the output to my pr... | |
| I just puked Shubertmaniac, there is another dynamic at work here which you're not giving credit to. In the 20th century, for the first time ever, music become recordable. This probably CREATED 'classical music'. That is, in previous times, people concerned th... | |
| SACD/DVD-A Anyone tried Yamaha or Integra? I cannot afford an expensive universal right now, and I don't want two separate boxes for dvd-a and sacd, both of which formats I want. And I don't need cd since I have an excellent high end system. Hence I recently bought the Denon dv2900 after i... | |
| SACD/DVD-A and 2-channel recordings I know of no companies doing SACD multichannel without including a 2 channel SACD mix, but Tacet's DVD-A recordings are generally multichannel without the corresponding 2-ch high rez mix. It's certainly not an industry trend at this point.The CD m... | |
| SACD's dsd to analog conversion? Please read Ric Shultz's response below to a similar question posed on AA. The question in that case related to universal players but the idea is the same:http://www.AudioAsylum.com/forums/hirez/messages/144056.htmlAlso bear in mind that most sacd... |