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| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? That’s weird! The exact same thing just about happens for CD players - the incessant hunt and peck action of the laser servo system trying to keep the nanoscale laser beam on track produces audible distortion. The continual servo action is due to ... | |
| The Science of Cables It is with mixed emotions I interject into a nice scientific cable discussion the observation that -all things being equal - a white jacketed cable or power cord whatever will sound better than one with another color jacket. As the little mice in ... | |
| regarding the Tiger Paw tranquility I suspect there is sufficient friction between the bearing and the platter to prevent slippage whilst record is playing. | |
| 'Unlistenable' early digital recordings? My vote goes to Ry Cooder’s Bop til you Drop. | |
| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? mzkmxcv765 posts06-04-2019 9:36pm@geoffkait Sighted listening tests are useless data unless combined with double-blind, quick-switching, and level-matched, as a way to demonstrate bias. >>>>If you can’t tell the difference between a ch... | |
| Careful if buying Purist Audio Neptune fluid cables. A faint heart ne’er won fair maiden. 💃 | |
| What is the least compressed signal? My understanding is that Redbook CD is actually limited in dynamic range, compared to live sound. Let’s say Redbook CD can provide up to 90 dB of dynamic range theoretically (and 90 dB of Signal to Noise Ratio). However, the actual dynamic range o... | |
| Worth of current system Ten dollars. The cost of a poster of a 911. Yes, I realize I’m bringing down the curve. As Bob Dylan says at the end of all of his songs, good luck to everybody! 🤗 I hazard a guess the sound I am getting now with a portable Sony Walkman and Grado ... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? We’ve already covered that. Snooze, you lose. The break in of speakers, cables, capacitors, etc. is a physical, a mechanical phenomenon. It manifests itself electrically, as fate would have it. Try to keep up with the discussion. | |
| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? There is no proof of anything in audio. There is evidence, though. Empirical evidence such as listening tests appear to support the proposition that there are differences between all types of cables. Speaker cables, interconnects, digital cables, ... | |
| What is the least compressed signal? If the engineer compresses the data what do you think appears on the CD? Three guesses. The first two don’t count. There is no evidence of ANY advantage to overly aggressive dynamic range compression other than being able to make the CD louder. Th... | |
| What is the least compressed signal? Sorry to be disagreeable the data on the CD is compressed. That’s why they sound compressed. That’s what compression means, that it’s dynamic range is compressed, squeezed down, suffocated, strangled, flatlined. | |
| Careful if buying Purist Audio Neptune fluid cables. The solution (no pun intended) is to make the fluid more viscous. | |
| Why all or most audiophiles are men? Do you have something against aging out of shape overweight bald men? Only joking. | |
| Caster Wheels vs. Spikes Wheels are much easier to roll than spikes. |