geoffkait
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| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Whoa! Hey, look at it this way. It gives audiophiles something to talk about. These cable debates, discussions, arguments, whatever have been going on for what, 40 years, now? They're the meat and potatoes of audio forums. 🍔🍟 | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... It appears ptss is taking the sage advice he dispensed earlier on this thread, "If you can’t attack the argument attack the person." Bravo, ptss! | |
| Woo Audio - Best headphone amps ever? I had the Woo headphone amp, the least expensive one. Very simple, elegant and well made, gorgeous chassis. Certainly replacing the original tubes is necessary to get the best sound. I also wrapped both transformers with mu metal and used two coun... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Sweet! 🐝 | |
| Why not batteries instead of power supplies? There are lots of reasons to avoid the house AC if at all possible. Aside from voltage regulation there's also the issue of RFI/EMI coming in along with the voltage and current, the cost of power cords, the high cost of a good power supply especia... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? There are a great many reasons why digital needs a lot of help. The reasons are not limited to RFI/EMI, "quantum noise," or Gaussian noise. Other reasons include but are not limited to seismic and internally produced vibration such as transformer ... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? Ivan_nosnibor"But I would say the main conclusion from my experiences so far is that the notion that digital itself is somehow Inherently inferior sound quality-wise is actually a complete myth. It just needs some serious help."Hmmmm, sounds like ... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? Costco, I see no reason for you to refer to me as God. Explosion proof? Maybe, but audiophile outlets and power cord plugs are still better sounding than hospital ones anyway. Just like audiophile fuses are better sounding than military ones. So w... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? From a quick scan of military fuses it appears anyone can buy them from at least two sources, our old friends Littelfuse and Bussmann. I think the problem for audiophiles - aside from the obvious one, what they sound like - is that they are appare... | |
| Test I don't test well. | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? I didn’t realize the military had so many audiophiles. 😬 Are the highest level fuses directional? Do they have military grade fuse holders, too? I will say I have tried and like very much the MIL SPEC Silver on copper Teflon wire from US Navy surp... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? I would go a little bit further. I’d say CDs, especially untreated CDs, sound not only too bright, but distorted, boomy, thin, harsh, hard, dry, threadbare, rolled off, bass shy, metallic, electronic, dull, generic, closed in, congealed, and like ... | |
| Audio Desk Systeme CD lathe Sound Improver One more thing. The way the Audio Deske System bevels the edge at some number of degrees illustrates the importance of dealing with the background scattered light that hurts the sound by getting into the photodetector and being detected by the not... | |
| Cable Elevators - What do you use? Quick shout out to LIGO gravity wave detection experiment for winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Couldn't have done it without tremendous team of vibration isolation experts. | |
| Audio Desk Systeme CD lathe Sound Improver Free tip: since the primary objective of the Audio Deske System is to correct the Out of Round condition of many CDs, which causes the CD to wobble during play, a similar decrease in wobble can be obtained by using ordinary black electrical tape, ... |