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| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? AgearI read Naked Lunch in HS. Burroughs was hardly a font of wisdom with his penchant for heroin and young boys. maybe you should read it again."In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 198... | |
| Quack System Upgrades jetter"They don’t believe in cable directionality making a sonic difference. IME, this doesn’t hold water."You may not think their wire achieves the proper status for your system, but regarding the cable directionality issue, I would counter that ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? grannyringCan we all agree wire cannot obtain the sonic pot of gold?In this hobby it’s sometimes best not to try and draw any conclusions about anything, no matter how convinced we might be that it's true. Nothing is true. Everything is true. | |
| Dielectric grease on connection ends The best contact enhancer of all time was Quicksilver Gold. Unfortunately it’s no longer available as Brian Kyle of Xtreme AV passed a couple years ago. It’s not for amateurs or folks with shakey hands. 😁 I would be remiss if I didn't add that ALL... | |
| Burn in time for a new CD transport? Most people don't really know what they're listening to anyway so best not to worry about it too much. Besides real audiophiles are constantly breaking in something, probably more than one thing at a time, to be honest, so it kind of comes with th... | |
| Quack System Upgrades The Red X Pen is much funnier than Quantum Tunneling. Even the Mpingo disc is funnier than Quantum Tunneling. | |
| Quack System Upgrades randy-11Quantum Tunneling sounds like a tweak but is real...Quantum Tunneling as concocted by SR might be real but it's not quantum tunneling. | |
| Quack System Upgrades Morphic Message Foils are pretty funny. Maybe not laugh out loud funny.🙄 | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Nathan_Winer wrote,"I noticed that you quote people like JA and John Curl in lieu of providing evidence. If you read my many articles and watch my many videos, you’ll see they all include lots of evidence. Microphones capturing the sound of differ... | |
| Quack System Upgrades The Intelligent Chip used to be good for a few yucks. I wonder if there's any more juice in it. Hmmmm..... | |
| Quack System Upgrades Ain't it funny how threads that start off about quack products and snake oil turn into cable debates in the blink of an eye? Carry on. Smoke if ya got em. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? shadorneIf a system is resolving of or highly sensitive to the wires then it is designed incorrectly. I don’t invest in audio gear to hear the wires - I prefer to hear the source music.do you invest in the internal wires of the component that conn... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? ethan_winerRalph said: " You can have a fair amount of THD and still have relatively low IMD figures."I doubt it, though I'll be glad to be proven wrongJuror #3 in 12 Angry Men: "You can't prove it!" | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? mapman"Waste of money IMHO"so sayeth the man who's got a lifetime subscription to The Audio Cheapskate. Of course I'm one to talk since I don't use cables or interconnects. Is that wrong? | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? This whole thread has taken a nasty and totally unnecessary turn. In the first place ever since the bullet headed amplifier reviewer from Audio Review opined that all amplifiers that measure about the same sound the same, audiophiles who actually ... |