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| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? I have commercial CDs with DSD marked on them. Rolling Stones early catelogue came out on DSD whenever. And they sound fantastic! | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) Wouldn’t three preamps be better? | |
| How to tell if a CD is Encoded? The word recorded should not be in the question. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Unfortunately, the old audiophile axiom is mostly true, that our IDEAL of great sound, I.e., the sound we tend to strive for, is only as good as the best system we’ve ever heard. That right there explains a lot. | |
| Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap? I’m personally not a big fan of EAR damping productsl having had very mediocre results (I.e., poor) with their blue damping sheets 🦋 and blue footers 🐬 but I say, “never say never” as I haven’t tried the EAR viscoelastic tape. The EAR stuff seems ... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Not necessarily. If it did matter, anyone could win any argument simply by claiming he’s heard the best of high end equipment. At its core it’s really a logical fallacy. Case in point, go to a big audio show sometime and you can observe just how d... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat Uh, if the clamp hurts the sound it’s crap. | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat Drastic is not really the word you were looking for. Perhaps dramatic. Perhaps another synonym of dramatic. Perhaps pronounced. But not drastic. Besides, by your own words you’ve been using that crap record clamp for what, like forever? Hopefully,... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat The drastic lowering of the noise floor? Whoa! Dude! | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Just curious, are your cables controlled for directionality? | |
| Am I using the right speaker cables? audiobunkerI am a cable manufacturer but not going to promote mine here. >>>>>That’s mighty decent of ya, partner. 😬 | |
| Cable Burn In Whoa! Back up! Beep! Beep! Did somebody say nano tubes? Is that like a really small bicycle inner tube? | |
| Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap? The trick with the Sumiko wrap was is was rather stretchy, so you stretch the tape as you wrap, achieving more compression to the tonearm than ordinary tape. It may have also been viscoelastic. You don’t have to wrap the entire length of the arm. ... | |
| The Absolute Sound vs Stereophile One assumes you mean while waiting to do a couple of lines of coke. | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat Whaaa? Was that an 🍑🎩 that just flew by? |