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| Isolation stands: snakeoil? The big Basis TT has proper isolation built in but it’s $100K. The Rockport TT if it’s still made has a dedicated isolation system built in but it’s $80K. All the rest of them, the squishy feet, the springy feet, are Masquerading as built-in isola... | |
| Speakers least affected by room acoustics I know for a fact that most Hollywood celebrities do not want tweaks or stuff hanging off the walls or cable lifters or other little shiny obnoxious do dads all over the place. Look at Fabio’s system sometime. His room is clean, well organized, es... | |
| Isolation stands: snakeoil? I don’t like pneumatic systems either for the same reason. Once they develop a leak they will never sound right because there’s a certain design pressure that obviously goes bye bye once a leak appears. And if you have to prop one side up then the... | |
| Isolation stands: snakeoil? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Untreated CDs on untreated CD players almost always sound thin, wiry, airless, synthetic, boomy, rolled off, unnatural, bland, two dimensional, undynamic, metallic, electronic, congealed, uninvolving, unm... | |
| Isolation stands: snakeoil? And the Laughing Goat Award for the funniest post of the week goes to....Baaaaaaa! 🐐 | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Whoa! What? Hey, I swear that looks like carbon fiber sleeves on those cables. Not too crazy about the big shiny square do dads. | |
| Good Used Speakers ($8K-10K) For A Little Listening Room Did the character in the Peanuts comic strip get his name from the Schroeder frequency? He played the piano and was cuckoo for Cocoa Pops about classical music. 😳 | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I just ran across what you’re referring to. Looks like a really really good copy of a Shun Mook Giant Diamond Resonator. Very nice! | |
| We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses Whoa! Hey, you were the one that started all this. I’m just trying to be helpful. 😳 | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Unless I’m missing something the $3K Dalby feet do not employ ebony or even wood of any kind. Better check it out. 🙄 - your friend and humble scribe (onwards and upwards!)The D7-CBF isolation feet preserves all of the delicate nuances within the r... | |
| We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses The last time I looked audiophiles do not (rpt not) agree on much of anything. Do you seriously think any self respecting skeptic or audiophile would agree with the notion he can’t really hear or that his system is not all that. I mean, come on! T... | |
| We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses Dear Mr Chef, I’m afraid we’re having a bit of a communications problem. I’ve explained what I meant already. You want the fuse oriented so the direction of the current or the signal is toward the speakers. And yes, we know all about why fuses are... | |
| We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses douglas_schroeder OPIn all matters of what can be heard in systems we cannot discount the influence of hearing loss, ambient room noise, and the level of equipment. That varies across the audiophile universe, so we should expect a certain amount o... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Shun Mook Diamond Resonators are even more complicated than the Mpingo disc. Maybe there should be a course on how to knock off Shun Mook resonators. Like the Shun Mook Spatial Kit, that has three Mpingo... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Here’s the thing. The Shun Mook Mpingo disc is probably not what you think it is. It’s actually two different woods, Gabon ebony and Mpingo wood, a variety of rosewood as I recall. Also, inside the cutout, if you remove the small disc of wood embe... |