geoffkait
Responses from geoffkait
| The Science of Cables To answer your question, yes I have. The only thing to fear is fear itself. 🤡 | |
| Digital, Low Mass, ClassD, Less expensive, Let it happen! Those vintage Sony Walkman lightweight headphones are worth their weight in gold. I just sold a pair for $75. That’s more than new Grados. Reason? Sound quality. Metaphors be with you. 👻 👻 👻 You might think you know something but you don’t. | |
| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. Even if it’s a myth I’ll take it...as long as it works. A myth is as good as a mile. Metaphors be with you. | |
| The Science of Cables Complex and mysterious? You have no idea.Noah Cross to Jake Geddes in Chinatown:Â You may think you know what you're dealing with, but, believe me, you don't ... | |
| Which courier do you prefer? Say, how come it costs thirty bucks to ship stuff to China but only a buck to ship from China to the US? | |
| The Science of Cables It just goes to illustrate one definition of an expert is someone who used to be a drip under pressure. | |
| What was your favorite musical artist best album? Are there two George Gobels? | |
| I'm getting my digital closer to analog while retaining the "good" qualities of digital... No argument here. Nevertheless.... | |
| Talk but not walk? Q - Mr. Dylan, why did you go from playing protest songs to playing folk rock?Dylan - I don’t play folk rock.Q - How would you describe your music?Dylan - I’d call it mathematical music. | |
| The Science of Cables One assumes that’s an example of the soft sell. Nice! | |
| The Science of Cables I went for the Audioquest Carbon HDMI Cable that’s controlled for directionality. Fabulous, film quality video. Forget about it. Having said that, there’s no such thing as a silver bullet. Sometimes there’s not much that can be done. That goes for... | |
| Talk but not walk? Corners are interesting. If you ever map out the room for sound pressure peaks, I.e., reflection points, echo locations, standing waves, etc. what you’ll find is that corners are where very high pressure standing waves set up. Using a SPL meter an... | |
| Vibration Isolation Any mass-on-spring system works both for vibrations going up to the component or speaker and those going down. What I had in mind is another layer of resonance control that addresses the “residual vibration” on the top plate of an iso platform, e.... | |
| Talk but not walk? It’s a fluid situation in the room. The whole dynamics of speaker locations, listener position, the size and shape of the room and type and number of room treatments, among other variables, combine to determine the sound quality, all other things ... | |
| How I would measure cables cleedsOne thing that strikes me odd about those who seek measurements of things such as cables is that they don’t seem to be interested in conducting valid, scientific, double-blind listening tests. The protocols for conducting such tests are pret... |