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| Perception Let’s briefly explore what the OP is referring to in his statement that his “larger point is how our perception of the sound is influenced by external factors.” Which I assume he means non-audio system related factors. That’s why I think the state... | |
| Best Headphone under 1k$? In the case of HIFIMAN HE-600S V2 earphones it certainly appears the review I linked to early in this thread was probably correct - there is no real change to the rather horrid (my word) sound until one reaches the 200 hour mark. And most likely 3... | |
| Perception rvpiano OPMy larger point with this post (other than my friend’s opinion) is how our perception of sound can be influenced by outside factors.>>>>Danger! Danger! Memory buffer register limit exceeded!! | |
| Fuse replacement in the Exposure 2010S integrated amplifier Outlier alert 🚨 Looks like it’s going to be close, though. Wolfie vs 50,000 others. Perhaps that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, Wolf Man. Or maybe you psyched yourself out. | |
| Perception Audiophiles oft feel a little bit sensitive about performance. It’s completely natural, everybody does it. The more you worry about it sometimes the worse it gets. 🥵 | |
| What brands tend to have the worst resale value? At least you won’t lose much money on Sound Design. 😁 | |
| Perception It’s quite common for audiophiles to wonder where their system stacks up in the overall scheme of things. It doesn’t even necessarily help matters to go to the shows and go listen to friends’ system since almost everybody is in the same boat. How ... | |
| Jumpers - how long is long enough I strongly suspect direction of the jumper cable is more important than the length, all other things being equal. | |
| WHAT SHOULD BE MY NEXT SYSTEM UPGRADE? Speaking of speaker placement, as it turns out most speakers are placed too far apart. It seems that audiophiles believe that a wider soundstage will result if speakers are placed far apart. However, the best, most accurate soundstage and sound ge... | |
| Blind fold hearing test cd318Perhaps we audiophiles are not seeing the wood for the trees. Perhaps most of the so-called huge, night and day differences in performance we often read about are in fact barely perceptible? >>>>Not everyone reports night and day ... | |
| What brands tend to have the worst resale value? Pioneer, Kenwood, Sony, Onkyo, Harmon Kardon. Even big honking Sony and Onkyo receivers are a dime a dozen. | |
| Phase Inversion, to flip polarity or not It all depends. If the system is in Correct Polarity (phase) and the recording is in Reverse Polarity the sound will be in Reverse Polarity. There are no Standards for Polarity or requirements that CDs or LPs must conform to some standard for Pola... | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? If speaker break-in isn’t real then Pierre of Mapleshade berated the Gallo dude for nothing when he sent new Gallo Reference speakers to CES without breaking them in first like he promised. It was not a pretty sight, newbies. 🤭 | |
| Blind fold hearing test Nonoise“I’ll trust my own, five, senses, thank you.”One sense we don’t have is to stay out of threads that have no real porpoise 🐬. | |
| Blind fold hearing test I absolutely refuse to get sucked into another blind testing debate but suffice it to say if blind testing was such a critical thing don’t you think, gentle readers, that amplifier designers and speaker designers would employ blind testing to obta... |