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| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters It’s not really a mass issue for the tops of speakers. It’s placing something that acts like a diode and allows the otherwise trapped energy in the speaker cabinet to rapidly escape to the outside air via a path of least resistance. This is why t... | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control You’re close, very close. You actually want to target the resonant frequencies of the platter, tonearm and cartridge, which are designed to exhibit resonant frequencies well below the lowest frequency of speakers, around 10 Hz to 15 Hz. So all you... | |
| whats the very best sounding cables for realistic money I had some PWB Electronics speaker cables along with TG Audio speaker cables for my bi wired Fultons. The PWB cables are very good and quite exotic but affordable. Dunno if they still sell cables but they might. | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? nonoise@almarg I see what you’re getting at. Lest anyone else (other than Al, who knows) confuse the matter of in-room SPLs and volume setting, what I was referring to is volume settings. How that translates to in room SPLs, I can’t say. What I ca... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? Whoa! What? Hey, I was totally unaware you could have a $60K system and NOT be an audiophile. What’s up with that? Have I been living in a cave? 🙄 Well, now that I think about it, I have a $50 system and am definitely an audiophile. So I guess any... | |
| Directionality of wire That's So funny! Thanks for the laugh. 😄 | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 A bigger transformer translates to bigger magnetic fields and more vibration and since the big transformer is bolted to the chassis, guess what? That’s right, worse sound! And magnetic fields are not (rpt not) exactly good for the sound, either. I... | |
| Best Bang For The Buck I've Ever Spent Half right? I'll take it! Hey, How do plants do with Rachmaninov? | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? krosst_emoji, I posted them already. Snooze you lose, cowboy. 💤 | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? I used to use a headphone amp, a Woo Audio pure tube Class A headphone amp with WWII era tubes. Today I use a Walkman CD player and Walkman cassette player. With Grado SR 60 headphones and Sony Ultralight headphones and Radio Shack Pro 35 titanium... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? Just for the record, it was krosst_emoji and Al who first commented that 2-3 dB was impossible, as I recall impossible was Al’s word. Whereas krosst indicated no phenomenon in the universe could account for such a change. Credit where credit is du... | |
| Maestro faceplate - does it make a difference? shadorne@geoffkait "No war path. Just pointing out that audio equipment is designed and built to produce high fidelity audio reliably without all manner of tin foil tweaks.">>>>>Not only is that statement not true it’s not even clos... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? phdgeoffkait, that’s definately a different but interesting approach but how were you able to get rid of the house ac?Batteries. No more ground issues. No more expensive power cords. No more bad power from the wall. No more big power supplies. No ... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? Pretty sure the whole THD cat was out of the bag back in the late 70’s and early 80’s when relatively high THD tube amps crushed relatively low THD solid state amps in terms of sound quality. So, it’s not exactly news. The tube amps in question sp... | |
| Maestro faceplate - does it make a difference? Whoa!! Look out! Shadorne’s on the warpath again. 🦃 His splendid anti-audiophile rant reminds me to start a thread sometime on the dodgy subject, How small can something be and still make a noticeable improvement to the sound? Suggested candidates... |