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| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money The real percentage remaining for most audiophiles, from what I can tell, is probably about 200%. If not more. Heck, there were some weeks SQ would double when I got up a full head of steam. Or maybe easier to say it that the system performance ha... | |
| Digital Remasters, Tapes & Records Question: why don’t we hear tape hiss on CDs? You know, the tape hiss from the original master tape. Has is been removed? | |
| Headphone cable, what do you do? Interesting. Seems like a missed opportunity for them. You know, what with all their cables controlled for directionality and everything. Oh, well... | |
| Headphone cable, what do you do? Gee, I wonder if Audioquest makes a headphone cable. And what are the odds it’s controlled for directionality? Hmmmmmm....pop quiz: what 3 things should you always do to a headphone cable not matter which one you choose? Prize to the winner. | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money “It’s filled with stars.” | |
| Talk but not walk? Well, I hope I’m not going to be accused of being an internet bully or of shooting fish in a barrel 🐟 🐠 🐟 🐟 but the reason folks use a break in machine is because simply playing music through cables is not sufficient to break them in. Not by a lon... | |
| Talk but not walk? This is just a simple case of people hyper focusing on gear. Or hyper focusing on circuits. Or caught up in the upgrade stampede. What’s missing in these kinds of obsessive type syndromes is The Big Picture. They don’t call it Audio Nervosa for no... | |
| mapleshade cable recomendations Ah, you have the Omega Mikros? I’m green with jealousy. 🤢 | |
| Recommendations for a few high SQ classical CDs Wagner Ring by either Von Karajan or Solti. From the golden age of Vienna and Berlin orchestras. | |
| mapleshade cable recomendations I stepped on the super delicate speaker cables at the Show in Vegas with Pierre and Ron. There was some yelling if I recall correctly. The super Skinny stuff sounds wonderful. Omega Mikro. | |
| Is It Possible? Fulton Nuance floorstanders replaced my naked Quad 57s. What a speaker! Better high end extension, very dynamic and wow! What bass! | |
| Is there actually a difference? sktn77aThey have to do it over and over again to prove to the "golden ears" that there truly is no real difference!!!>>>>You’re close. Very close! It’s actually to prove to themselves they’re not deaf and that it’s OK to have a mediocr... | |
| Is there actually a difference? vtvmtodvm@geoffkait —Well, I don't know the answer to your question, but, as (apocryphally) credited to Mark Twain…“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”So I guess some people always need more proof.>>... | |
| blue jeans cable? Parts and power? No problemo.“The MiG-29 has been manufactured in several major variants, including the multirole Mikoyan MiG-29M and the navalised Mikoyan MiG-29K; the most advanced member of the family to date is the Mikoyan MiG-35. Later models... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat Magnetic field strength falls off with the square of the distance. If the mats are only “magnetic enough” to attack to ferrous objects, it’s not an issue. |