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| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND From the website of things that Einstein never said,8. "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."It’s a pleasant point to be made, but Einstein never said this. Quote Investigator points to a 1963 p... | |
| Magico and Symposium ebm OP3,412 posts07-31-2016 10:35am"Symposium is much better than Townsend or Stillpoints Symposium will isolate the speaker from the room and floor."Huh? Aren't you actually isolating the rest of the system from the speakers? Why would you worry ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 / Paray/Detroit/Mercury Living Presence on CD or LP. This is not chopped liver. | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND To all - most likely the 5% for the THD of that amplifier is a typo or whatever! maybe language issue! who knows. The generic great sounding tube amps back when this whole THD was big like 30 or 35 years ago came in with what was then thought to b... | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND derrickengineer OP31 posts07-31-2016 3:16amgeoffkait3,776 posts07-30-2016 4:58pm"I went out for a mild mannered troll and got a sucker on the line."to which drrekengineer replied,"Well since you said it mr. kaits, is there a bit of quilt coming ou... | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND yogiboy1,321 posts07-31-2016 7:02amHow would you know that a manufacturer is not fudging the specs ? If an amp is not reviewed and tested you would never really know if the listed specs are accurate. Just sayin’good point, but I doubt they would b... | |
| Equipment Rack Audiopoint wrote, "Wow, as I’m finishing up with this post, I just read your latest one liner with regards to one of our members! Believe me Mr Kate, you do not want to compare your career to hers nor do you want to go head to head in a science de... | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND derrickengineer OP28 posts07-30-2016 6:24pmI know he was re my comment to geoffkait. Well me feeling I was sucked into Mr. Kaitts mumbo jumbo and $ 250 rip off prompted my reply.to geoff. 10% THD sounding better than 5% yeah that speaks volumes..... | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND derrickengineer OP25 posts07-30-2016 3:21pmjeffkait..My point is they BOTH sound great in my two examples of amplifiers having the opposite end of THD specs.. Arnet you the guy ( asstrophysisist )selling those wacky trinkets to fool the mind into ... | |
| Equipment Rack Tom - Better hire a new seismologist. | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND Let’s see...if 5% THD sounds better than 0.005% THD does that mean 10% THD might sound better than 5% THD? Sign me up! | |
| Equipment Rack theaudiotweak1,355 posts07-30-2016 11:32amHence creating motion artifacts and larger amounts of interfering energy within the component that is placed in "isolation" TomNo, Tom. The motion is imperceptible and only at one frequency, you know, the ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... "...If you take the time to talk with Ray, you'll find him to be a perfect gentleman with a ton of patients."I'm not sure it's fair to refer to his customers as his patients, on the other hand....;-) | |
| Why so many headphones for sale with less than 10 hours of listening time? OMG, can you catch cooties? | |
| Equipment Rack Folkfreak wrote,"others with more knowldge of springs (Geoff?) may comment on whether the setup transmits higher frequencies, it may."The springs are simply part of the mass/spring iso system. Analogous to seismic vibration isolation, isolating th... |