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| Which CD\SACD? Theothergreg said,"geoffkait, that was an Oppo 103 just like it was a Toyota Camry that won the Daytona 500 yesterday...."That’s why there are such things as modded Oppos or modded anything."You referred to it in the past tense, so why did you giv... | |
| Which CD\SACD? The first and second round of mods were done by Ric Schulz of EVS and included analog and digital mods, the Audio Magic Pulse Gen ZX box, high speed clock, Oppo Mods Linear PS, the one with massive toroidal transformer, with upgraded capacitors. T... | |
| Which CD\SACD? "I’ve never heard the Oppo, modded or unmodded, described as "rich"."My modded Oppo 103 was rich sounding. There, now you’ve heard it. Is it possible my Oppo sounded rich because it was the most extensively modded Oppo on the planet? Maybe. | |
| Taralabs cables One man's holographic is another man's two dimensional paper mâché. When it comes to trying to describe the sonic virtues of just about anything in audio, including cables, words tend to fail to properly convey the full meaning of what's going on... | |
| Led Zeppelin sale... But it was only slightly used. ;-) | |
| Helmholtz Resonators I have a little bit of experience with Helmholtz resonators. The biggest one I built was a fifteen foot long folded resonator, 9 inch diameter with a 2-inch long 1/2" diameter nozzle. It was used to ameliorate a nasty low frequency standing wave i... | |
| Phono pre "Break-In" process? Necessary? "I wonder how designers of well regarded "active" speakers deal with the vibration issues with amp in the same space (essentially) as the drivers. Sort of kicks that issue out the door."That’s an excellent Strawman argument. First, who’s says acti... | |
| Moto_Man's Scam Of The Week From Arthur Clark's third law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," we get the following corollaries or whatever,Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. (Grey's law)[5] (compare H... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Mapman, you might be onto something, if it's anything like the love fest over on the HFC thread. ;-) | |
| I think I've Just Seen Absolute Proof That Audiophiles Are Insanely Gullible Motor Man, that’s why I included knocking off the Mpingo disc in my previous post, because things are often not what they seem when it comes to these things. Like the diamond coating used in the Magico tweeter and the graphene coating used in the... | |
| I think I've Just Seen Absolute Proof That Audiophiles Are Insanely Gullible Motor Man wrote,"@almarg , "The real question, though, would be whether differences could be distinguished between this $6800 weight and another 3+ pound weight having similar contact area and costing say $50 or so."You are exactly right. The ques... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Roger, good explanation. Thnx | |
| Moto_Man's Scam Of The Week "We spend so much money on sympathetic vibration (mostly trying to kill it...tone arm design, speaker cabinets, component chassis, etc)...and then to turn around and say that injecting more of it (even if in an attempt to control it) is somehow be... | |
| Moto_Man's Scam Of The Week Sympathetic vibration I think is the term you’re looking for, which explains why tiny little bowl resonators like Franck Tchang’s gold, platinum and silver bowls, his even tinier Sugar Cubes, Synergistic Research’s tiny little bowls, my tiny littl... | |
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