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| Any "The Civil Wars" Fans? I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the Mercury Living Presence Civil War CDs besides a lot of the music and songs of the Civil War era also contain some of the most well recorded sounds of small and large bore weaponry of the time period o... | |
| Fuses that matter. Tbg wrote,"Geoffkait, I would be surprised if any true audiophile does (not) know this, but perhaps doesn't bother."Uh, right. All 300 of them. | |
| Why does the copy sound better than the original Gbmcleod, it would be a fairly easy experiment to find out if there was something peculiar to CD-Rs that was responsible for copies sounding better than the original. The experiment is: copy a CD-R to another CD-R and see if that copy is better th... | |
| Isolation for DAC/Class D Power Amp Even for concrete floors structureborne vibration is an issue, trumping airborne vibration. The Earth's crust motion forces the building structure, including cement slab, to move at low frequencies circa 0-20 Hz. | |
| Fuses that matter. It's worth pointing out someone can get an improvement to the sound without spending ANY money. By reversing existing original fuses in the system one at time and deciding by ear which direction sounds better you can get quite a significant improv... | |
| Need a monitor while floorstanders in storage Geez, what doesn't beat out the LS35a's in dynamics? Or bass extension? LS35a's are the poster boy for whimpy, albeit clear and realistic, sound. | |
| Cables more hype than value? Next up, speakers - more hype than value? Then, turntables - more hype than value? Then, cartridges - more hype than value? | |
| Why does the copy sound better than the original Gbmcleod wrote,"As it turned out (on CD at least), the CD-R/RW pits are wider than the commercial CD pits, and so the copy is cleaner, and sounds better than the original'"That's weird. The pits are narrower on Blu Ray discs and Blu Rays sound bet... | |
| Which songs or musical standards have haunted you? Ode to Billie Joe. Geez, why did Billie Joe MacAllister jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge? | |
| For the sound, or????? I was one of Pacific Valve's first customers having purchased a Bada PH12 Hybrid SET headphone amp. This little jewel was recently pressed back into service, driven by a modded Oppo 103. | |
| KUHL tube treatment - is this black smoke???? Rrog wrote,"Many complaints about premature failures on cryoed tubes. Extremely low temperatures may be stressing internal parts."Yeah, right. | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Mapman wrote,""I reiterate: merchants like yourself who wish to trawl the forums for commercial purposes should use the advertising services available at Audiogon."It might be illegal to obfuscate there."Ouch!Et tu, Brute? I thought we were buds. ... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Sabai, you have completely avoided the discussion and while I can appreciate your angst and frustration with respect to the subject of holographic sound and in particular the very expensive devices like the SteinMusic Harmonizer and the Schumann F... | |
| KUHL tube treatment - is this black smoke???? Cryo improves the performance of glass, plastic, metal so why not use cryo for tubes, cables, wires, tonearms, LPs, CDs, transformers, etc.? You don't think for one second Ferarri doesn't use cryo for racing engine parts, do you? All the best cabl... | |
| Bungee Cords Essentialaudio - The copper foil I'm referring to is 1 inch by 1/2 inch. One per window. Non-conductive adhesive. |