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| Something For The Fuse Guys ... With around 100,000 fancy audiophile fuses sold in the last fifteen years it’s highly improbable that they are a hoax or that expectation bias or any other psychological explanation is to blame. There is an ever increasing chasm between the high e... | |
| Interconnect Directionality If only there could be more of me. Sigh | |
| Active isolation; what can it do for music reproduction? Three things. Isolation platforms are not (rpt not) limited to 200 Hz. The way they work is that as vibration frequency goes up so does isolation effectiveness. Thus, for a 3 Hz passive platform the effectiveness at 10 Hz is about 50%, at 20 Hz ab... | |
| Active isolation; what can it do for music reproduction? For informational porpoises 🐬 only, The description of the various isolation techniques used in LIGO, the Mother of all Isolation Techniques, https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/vibration-isolationGeoff KaitMachina DynamicaGive me the right spring a... | |
| Active isolation; what can it do for music reproduction? Passive isolation gets a bad rap. If you take a gander at the various isolation techniques employed by LIGO the project to detect gravity waves, most of the methods of isolation are passive, and fairly traditional mass-on-spring isolation. And the... | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... News flash! 💥 Exhibitors at audio shows do not (rpt not) employ tweaks. They eschew them. Maybe a few that I’m aware of use tweaks to any extent, but most prefer to exhibit brand new components. Are they still living in the 80s? The only ones who ... | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... That’s so cute. The mouse timidly taunts the rattlesnake. 🤡 | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... Amp manufacturers have too much to lose by being wrapped around the axle with a snake oil controversy. 🐍 If they are even aware of it which they probably aren’t. More than anyone else, amp designers are from the “good solid engineering principles”... | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... Also, as I’ve oft opined, even if you’re a real cheapskate or hard-core non-believer, you can get that 5% boost by simply flipping the stock fuse you’re currently using around. 🔜 There is a risk, obviously, that you may experience a 5% drop in SQ ... | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... Good question. No, actually they’re just like you. They’ve never heard of audiophile fuses, either. | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... George? Do I win a prize? | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Hole CD Mat - Wow! Apparently they didn’t teach you very much, Mr. Eels. For starters the CD laser isn’t red. Don’t tell anybody. It’ll be our little secret. 🤫 How ‘bout them apples, Mr. Smarty Pants? 🍎 🍎 | |
| HAIL TO THE KING..GINGER BAKER On the Kalahari you don’t have to be the fastest Wildebeest you only have to be faster than the slowest one. Same with drummers, as long as the drummer fits the group, he’s golden. With that criterion in mind there’s been a bunch of terrific drum... | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Hole CD Mat - Wow! Mr. Eels, I realize you think you know something about this subject but you don’t. First of all, as I just got through saying, NDM is not a CD mat or any such thing. The scattered light levels inside the CD transport can be quite high, up to 100% ... | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Hole CD Mat - Wow! NDM is not a CD mat. NDM is a set of 10 ultra thin adhesive plastic squares that are placed on the top surface of the CD tray and the surface of the Mini CD tray, if there is one. I estimate total thickness of NDM to be no more than 1/32”. There i... |