geoffkait
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| Whats playing on your system today? Voodoo Lounge. With NDM + Mystery CD Tweak. Holy crap! | |
| Ultimate power condotioner Would the Japanese audiophile who ensure the transformer wire was wrapped in the right direction be considered normal or eccentric? | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? fleschler, the irony for you is that all that time and expense and you still have a long way to go. The reason I say that is because the problems with scattered laser light and the vibrating and fluttering CD can not (rpt not) be recovered by anyt... | |
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components Well,, that’s not really true either. Mods encompass a wide range of things, from power supply mods to Super Clocks to RFI/EMI filters to aftermarket fuses to WA Quantum Chips to damping the chassis, damping the transport mechanism, damping the tr... | |
| Distortions that the human ear likes. Are there any ? OK, here’s the problem with believing anyone who claims audiophiles prefer or like certain types of distortion. Let’s suppose there is a desirable type distortion, or one that some people like, whatever it might be, and I’m not saying there isn’t ... | |
| Distortions that the human ear likes. Are there any ? This just in!“The higher harmonics, above the 7th, give the tone "edge" or "bite." The basic cause of the difference in tube and transistor sound is the weighting of harmonic distortion in the amplifier’s overload region (the italics are mine). Tr... | |
| Moderately priced audio I hate to judge too quickly but I suspect I’m bringing down the curve just a little bit with my $10 system. A thousand pardons. 😬Knowledge is what’s left after you subtract out all that good stuff you forgot from school. | |
| Replaced CDP w/ Transport; Now, Soundstage Changes Dramatically w/each CD. Why? Question, why you think CD vibration would hurt the sound? I mean, after all the player has error correction and a laser Servo Tracking system, no? | |
| Distortions that the human ear likes. Are there any ? It’s not the harmonics. It’s the harmonic distortion. Harmonic distortion is a technical term. Specifically,The total harmonic distortion (THD) is a measurement of the harmonic distortion present in a signal and is defined as the ratio of the sum ... | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? It was a lucky guess. | |
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components Was it redacted? | |
| Replaced CDP w/ Transport; Now, Soundstage Changes Dramatically w/each CD. Why? Of course. All CDPs have a transport. The stray laser light fills up the transport compartment like a Christmas tree light. 💡 | |
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components The Big Secret nobody wants you to know about. The big secret - problems caused by the stray laser light AND the fluttering and vibratory nature of the CD. The degradation to the sound can never NEVER be restored no matter what you do upstream of ... | |
| Replaced CDP w/ Transport; Now, Soundstage Changes Dramatically w/each CD. Why? Unfortunately the scattered light inside the transport reduces soundstage performance of all CDs. Palpability, stability, localization of musicians, separation of instruments and notes and the dimensions of the expanding, enveloping sphere. The fl... | |
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components I owned the World’s Most Extensively Modded OPPO 103 several years ago. I’m not interested too much what others do or don’t do. I broke the OPPO warranty the very first day. There was so much stuff in there at the end the cover would no longer fit... |