folkfreak
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| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera Few to no reviews of DCS players?not sure you’ve been doing decent research then, the Rossini and Vivaldi have been reviewed at length on every mag and the network box is now getting a bunch of reviewshttps://www.dcsltd.co.uk/products/vivaldi-dac/... | |
| Room acoustical treatments What you are looking for is commonly referred to as a GOBO I have a pair from GIK and they are cheap and work wellhttp://www.gikacoustics.com/product/freestand-acoustic-panel-gobo/ | |
| Synergistic Research Powercell 12UEF Thanks for the question @oppezzi -- there's actually two reasons why I have two 12SE UEFs -- firstly my system is set up with all the sources and pre-amp on one side of the room, and the power amps on the other, connected by a 30' length of AQ WEL... | |
| Balanced cables While I have nothing to disagree with in the thread @almarg refers too the entire discussion is at a fairly basic/EE theory level in the cable controversy canon. To whit if you believe cables are sensitive to external vibration, interference from ... | |
| Balanced cables Yes. Most of the aspects of cable design that affect performance apply to balanced cables just like single ended, you just don’t have to worry about directionality 😉 assuming the manufacturer got this right in construction.Seriously however you wi... | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning Just wanted to chime in on this thread with a shout out for the after sales service from Klaudio on their cleaners. I’ve had an LP200 since last August and love it but in the past month the motor driving the LP started to whine and in many cases w... | |
| Using shunyata power cords with a synergistic research powercell 10 UEF Sorry @spinner1 although I own both Galileo LE Digital and Atmosphere L3 digital I have never compared them Head to Head (I need 4 digital power cords for my DCS stack). The atmospheres were the newest ones I got and they replaced a Tesla which th... | |
| Using shunyata power cords with a synergistic research powercell 10 UEF Thanks for the kind words spinner1 -- I do like how the system is performing at present but I can always think of ways of making things better!I'm a big fan of the new generation of AQ power cords -- especially what they do for power amps. My expe... | |
| Using shunyata power cords with a synergistic research powercell 10 UEF My SR 12UEF works delightfully with a mix of SR, AQ and Marigo cords. I think you should have no issues and can find the cord that works best for each solution do however look into what is under your PowerCell. Mine currently sits on a custom Mari... | |
| Buying an item from Canada Best shipping is via the mail, shouldn’t take too long. If it’s used goods I don’t think there any duty. If new they may be but for most things I’ve bought I’ve never been charged it. All in all buying and selling across this border is about as ... | |
| How to "mount" acoustic foam ? @gdhal you will not hear any problems with foam and a clap test. However try playing female vocal, listen with and without the foam and listen to tonality rather than frequency response (ie try to tune out the Echo you are using the foam to addres... | |
| How to "mount" acoustic foam ? I’m sorry I was not able to communicate clearly enough. I’m not denying that acoustic foam will perform sonically and damp midrange tones. The issue is that in doing this it also imparts an audible sonic signature that is harsh and ultimately unde... | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge cartridge taken to the next level A ex US importer will not charge US sales tax. That’s the buyers responsibility to pay as a “use tax”. There may be import duty however, although I’ve imported loads of stuff from the UK at this sort of price and never paid it | |
| How to "mount" acoustic foam ? @ether the point @geoffkait is making is that any amount of acoustic foam is audible and deleterious.I have a fully treated room with tube traps and diffusion along with a range of SR treatments. I was using small (6”x12”) bits of foam to break up... | |
| Grading phono cartridges Part 2. ... perhaps the removal of the OPs post had less to do with his opinions on audio and more to do with his blatant casual and irrelevant misogyny? |