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| Preamp inverts signal. Onhwy61 wrote,"Not every listener is sensitive to absolute polarity.">> I never said they were. Some people hear better than others, no doubt about it. And there are exceptions to every rule. I suspect it’s probably true that people need to ... | |
| Have you gotten great sound in a small er room? In a small room early reflections and slap echoes will be louder than for large rooms all things being equal since the acoustic waves don't have as far to travel; consequently I operate on the assumption that smaller rooms require more aggressive ... | |
| Preamp inverts signal. "My Croft 25R inverts but reversing speaker leads dulled the dynamics enough to be noticeable. I put them back to the way they are marked. I tried this with a number of recordings and results were consistent."Is it possible something else in your ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... "Geoffkait, if we believed in more, at least PT Barnum would have been better off! As for the rest of us, I feel that is still yet to be proven. :)""All products must be marketed, even the really good ones. " - PT Barnum"You can’t prove anything t... | |
| Preamp inverts signal. Al, unfortunately phase and polarity are sometimes used interchangeably. In the case of the XLO test CD when they refer to "phase" they're actually referring to what we call absolute polarity now, you know, what with the book on polarity by Clark ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Mapman wrote,"Well everyone can rest easier now that machina dynamica geoffkait is convinced these things kick arse. Mopman out."Mopman, you’re putting words in my mouth again. You know what that means? Strawman alert! Take the day off. Come back ... | |
| Preamp inverts signal. "Sidebar, how can I test my system for polarity? Test track?"The most reliable way to test the system for absolute polarity is the in phase and out of phase tracks of the XLO Test CD. Of your system is in the correct absolute polarity the Out of P... | |
| Preamp inverts signal. What is interesting and a little mysterious in George's very thorough explanation of absolute polarity is that entire CD LABEL repertoire are inverted polarity which seems to rule out randomness of CDs being inverted polarity. Mapleshade is an exc... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... "I have a bunch of bottle caps from the dozens of Harp beers consumed at my home on St. Paddy’s day and I am gonna glue them all over the wall to simulate the effect of SR’s dots."For even greater bass extension you might consider gluing the empty... | |
| Have you gotten great sound in a small er room? Gbmcleod wrote,"Geoffkait, just happened to be looking at old threads, and saw your response from 3 years ago, and laughed."One naturally assumes you were laughing with me.cheers,G. Kait | |
| Why do all audio forums on the internet seem "dead" ? Mapman, you have how many posts?! Whaaaat? That's priceless!cheers | |
| Why do all audio forums on the internet seem "dead" ? $3000 for a preamp? You really think that’s an exorbitant price? Geez, that how much high end preamps like the Berning preamp were when I first got into high end audio. And that was 35 years ago. Hel-loo! Wake up and smell the coffee! You know, if... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... At all, even the SR claim that the WA Quantum Chip for fuses interferes with the operation of the Black fuse is probably no longer much of a mystery either since placing a WA Chip, although it’s teeny tiny, on the Black fuse could likely cover up ... | |
| The Best , make that the all time best, 6SN7. "I like the 6F8G's which require an adapter much better then the 6SN7's but better still are the Marconi BL63's which also require an adapter. Before using the latter, you need to make sure your gear is up to the current demands of this wonderful ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Al wrote,"So the mystery continues."Al, sorry to be so contrary but actually there’s really not much mystery left. Didn’t you get my memo? Yeah, yeah, I know, all the world loves a mystery. ;-) Now, don’t get me wrong, manufacturers do use a diffe... |