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| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. I’m generalizing but - at least for me - cassettes sound rich, natural, dynamic, sweet, have more sparkle and presence compared directly to their CD counterparts, which sound thin, compressed, synthetic, bland and uninteresting. Cassettes are port... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? “What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak?”>>>>>Look at it like a Venn diagram. 🥨 The three criteria you name are mutually exclusive except in rare cases. You got your ridiculous tweaks, which may or m... | |
| Frequency response + or - 1 dB ?? Nothing is perfect. Even NASA screws up from time to time. | |
| Frequency response + or - 1 dB ?? Gosh, no kidding? 😳 | |
| How loud do you play music? What with the aggressive dynamic range compression that’s all the rage these days, the main problem is turning the volume down before you listen, you know, so you don’t blow your ear drums out. It’s also a clue as to whether the CD or LP or SACD i... | |
| Helmhotz resonators for audiophile at almost no cost and without calculus... Note - for a given volume V of the bottle the operating frequency of the resonator is completely controlled by the neck or nozzle, length and cross section area. Everything else in the Helmholtz equation is a constant. | |
| Finding a Power Cord that sounds great tweak1Most power cords have very little to no science and/or engineering behind them, but can still cost a small fortune.>>>>Gosh, I did not know that. Got any examples? Or is this just another shill? | |
| Helmhotz resonators for audiophile at almost no cost and without calculus... You can find sound pressure peaks using an empty sealed box and a test tone (for example 315 Hz). Walk around the room holding the box with test tone playing moderately loud on REPEAT. When the box starts to vibrate in your hand that’s where a sou... | |
| Anticable Cables: what do you like about them thread? They probably connected them backwards. | |
| Diffusion vs. Sound Absorption views What’s really needed is a test tone such as found on test CDs, say 315 Hz, which works fine, and an SPL meter. Then, determine locations in the room where sound pressure peaks 6 dB or higher than the average sound pressure in the room at moderatel... | |
| Polyfill placement question in monitor speakers. As it turns out almost everyone puts way too much stuffing in speakers. Didn’t anyone ever think, geez, isn’t that suffocating the sound? I guess not. Monkey see, monkey do. You might be surprised to know speakers will sound much better - more op... | |
| Colorado-Based Manufacturers Starbuds. 12 locations. 😳 | |
| Colorado-Based Manufacturers Boulder. Duh! | |
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| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. Imho untreated CDs played on untreated CDPs sound thin, two-dimensional, bland, wooly, rolled off, bass shy, generic, like there’s missing information, synthetic, unmusical, metallic, weird, uninteresting, non-coherent, laughable, screechy, thumpy... |