geoffkait
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| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test It's possible that sonic improvements via cryoing cables and wires are not the result of lowering electrical resistance of the wire. For example, sonic advantages to cryoing CDs and vinyl records are not a function of electrical resistance, at lea... | |
| Is the significance of room acoustics overrated? Unfortunately the room itself, by virtue of its box-like structure and hard, flat surfaces, influences the sound. Slap echo, standing waves and the tremendous build-up of sound pressure levels in all (8) room corners are three big problems that sp... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment As i recall there is no guarantee that 20 degrees is the VTA used for a given recording. It would be great if there were a standard that everyone used, but alas....In many cases the angle used is 20 degrees, but in many others the actual angle is ... | |
| How to track down bad tube and what can it mean? The distortion appears to be caused by one of the new tubes. Replace the new tubes - one at a time - with equivalent older ones, listening to the amp after each replacement, until distortion disappears. This technique should allow you to identify ... | |
| Digital jitter and disk treament tweak Along the lines of the charge/discharge of the disc while spinning, thus causing the disc to wobble, if the transport/spindle is not absolutely level, the disc will wobble, causing the same effect (jitter). Unfortunately, obtaining level of the ch... | |
| Dylan, Richards, and Waits I believe it | |
| Does your system's sound change with the weather? The speed of sound is slower in denser/colder air than in thinner/warmer air; the relationship of temperature, pressure and volume is of course PV= nRT. Why sound might be perceived differently for different ambient air conditions, esp. when chang... | |
| Does your system's sound change with the weather? speed of sound in air changes with temperature and/or humidity; that might be responsible for perceived changes in sound; but lots of things affect sound and hard to prove something else not responsible if you ask me... | |
| Purpose of triangular placement of cones/spikes? Unfortunately, perhaps - size, shape, material of cones, location of component in room (rack vs floor), vibration environment (urban, suburban, country) are all part of the puzzle, IMO. geoffkait, Machina Dynamica (yikes! Another isolation/vibrati... | |
| Please help, obsessive audiophile question slap echo can seem worse than it is, there are worse things that could happen. Attempts to cure slap echo often result in killing the "openness" of the sound. IMOM the panels can do more harm than good. I still have several panels here, but not in... | |
| Please help, obsessive audiophile question You're prob. not going to want to hear this one, but IMHO the panels - even one or two - can have dramatic (negative) influence on the sound - esp. soundstage, balance, transparency. I always prefer the sound w/o any panels in the room, tho' I rea... | |
| Please help, obsessive audiophile question Just in case you haven't tried this, track 3 on XLO CD is the best channel balance and soundstage focus track (assuming you do not have a problem somewhere along the line). The objective of the Out of Phase track 3 is to obtain perfectly diffuse s... | |
| Traffic "John Barleycorn Must Die" - Why no mfsl As good as JBMD might be artistically or sonically, it was simply not popular enough to make the MFSL "list" - they can't make money on something they can't sell many of. Plain and simple. | |
| Best overall Speakers for $2,500.00 or less, New? For magical midrange and staging, brand new BBC LS3/5A mini-monitors from Stirling Broadcast with "reference" outboard crossover and "reference" cabinets will set you back 2300+ duckaleros. Stands available from Stirling will bring total to 2500. ... | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? Psychicanimal - I did not mean to imply that. Anything not "properly isolated" from structural vibration (seismic, trains, traffic, etc.) will certainly move, such as the entire house, as you pointed out. I tend to focus on the frequencies of vibr... |