fsonicsmith
Responses from fsonicsmith
| Directionality of wire I'm new here. I posted my OP with sincere interest. I have been informed the topic has been beaten to death previously. I did NOT intend to fan the flames of past bad blood between longstanding participants. I obviously don't get to play referee o... | |
| Directionality of wire How will you do that? You can’t flip balanced cables end to end. All you can hope is the manufacture assembled the ends with the wire direction the same for each balanced cable.Doh! This dumbass goof on my part demonstrates my lack of experience w... | |
| Directionality of wire When it comes to cables, I am open to the majority of concepts that can't be explained or measured by electrical engineers. I DO find it difficult to ignore the advice/philosophy of the maker of the cable on hand. Until recently I was using Chris ... | |
| Directionality of wire As I've posted elsewhere, it IS true that I am new to the A-Gon fora. That's because I used to be a regular on AA and it sufficed. But that asylum has become dead and this one seems more active so I've migrated here. I have 40 years experience in ... | |
| Directionality of wire Further, Audioquest, a strong advocate of wire directionality, is hardly a one man operation. I apologize for sounding rude, but please read carefully before you pipe-off. I specifically contrasted AQ as a "big boy" operation.As to the rest, I don... | |
| Warm, rich sounding interconnects? As a true cynic, warm, to me, means just enough 2nd harmonic distoetion, such as Conrad Johnson and Audio Research have been purported to intentionally add to their designs.OK. With respect, you need to read up on the inherent electrical character... | |
| Upgrading amplifiera. Without picking on anyone in particular, there are some wayward responses above. The correct answer is that it all depends. The amp has to mate with the loudspeaker. A 16 ohm ultra sensitive horn doesn't need much more than a watt or three and a p... | |
| Anyone spend more on their system than their car? Stingreen; are you using Quickies and the Quicksilver Full Pre? Which speakers? Just curious. | |
| Aurender A10 setup - loading from CDs XLD makes it easy. When you burn the disc a window pops up with a tab up top for "Obtain Metadata". 95% of the time it recovers the cover art and stores it with the music (each song presumably) such that the iPad app shows the cover art. Aurender ... | |
| Aurender A10 setup - loading from CDs For the last two years I have been using XLD (free download) rather than iTunes on my MBP to burn discs. The process remains cumbersome but do-able. Maybe the following will help, maybe not. You tell me. First off, make sure your Aurender is ON. M... | |
| Weakest link http://www.audioresearch.com/ContentsFiles/Hierarchy.pdfSays it all. Start at the source, evaluate, and work your way down the chain. | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia simao, well said and a few posts above I tried-not as well-to express the same thing. Music triggers something in our brains that is addictive to us, but above that, fidelity or quality is necessary to feel what we need to feel. We all know people... | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy the only real trick I've found is if you need more PRAT in your system, the speaker wires need to run downhill all the way to the spkr terminals. or at least put a chair in the way so the last part of the trip is all down hill. Trust me. its magic... | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia fsonicsmith,I'm in the business, and believe me, watch enthusiasts complain about prices of timepieces and service plenty, as well as the cost of straps and bracelets.REAL watch people? That means Patek Phillipe Vacheron, Jaeger-Lecoultre, IWC, an... | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia It's thought-provoking. It may be meant for non-audiophiles, but it prompts a fair bit of introspection upon this audiophile. My own belief is that we audiophiles at our very core rely on music to alter our sense of the World, just like endurance ... |