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| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Someone posted,"Perhaps it might help to know that in the last ten years, Dr. Herbert Melcher has shown that the human ear/brain system has tipping points. An example of that is if the playback has insufficient speed (risetime) the brain has a tip... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? It all gets very complicated. Results one gets with a particular cable or interconnect are system dependent, and dependent on the composition of the metal conductor, whether it’s silver or copper, the purity of the metal, the dielectric employed, ... | |
| Cabinet mb1audio02meerzistar: it insulates current, not vibration. Thats pretty clear cut. So was the OP's question." Not worried about the vibration,I can work that out. I’m concerned if there would be any unwanted frequencies from the porcelain? I als... | |
| Quack System Upgrades rlawryFunny that this subject comes up from time to time. Having an advanced engineering degree, do tell. Which one?many of these tweaks fail the smell test, wreak of alchemy, and cause my internal BS meter to peg and flash wildly. Many of the... | |
| Quack System Upgrades How odd...nobody's mentioned the Teleportation Tweak. 😛 | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Blind tests are for sissies. They don't prove anything.😎 | |
| Quack System Upgrades crazyeddy OP68 postsAlong the humorous line, does anyone know if machinadynamica is realOr is this a "tongue and cheek" humorous web site? (perhaps administrated my Nigel Tuffnel himself) I saw a few months back an add they had for beach sand or p... | |
| Cabinet Porcelain is the poor man’s ceramics, which is an excellent vibration damper, I.e., resonator. And I’m not hot doggin ya. | |
| Quack System Upgrades almargShadorne 12-26-2016Good quality and well designed equipment should be highly sensitive and revealing of the source and not the wires used to connect equipment together. Audio 101 basics in design and quality."Good point, Shadorne. My percept... | |
| Lemon HiFi-Tuning Fuse? bcowen"Even "non-audiophile" fuses give up sometimes after a period of use. I've had Buss and Littelfuses pop for no apparent reason."I suspect it's safe to assume that happens a hundred times more often than for aftermarket audiophile fuses. | |
| Quack System Upgrades Yamamura Q-151 CD treatment contained shark oil. That's not snake oil. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? bdp24Things that are more noticed when they are removed than they were by virtue of their presence. It wasn't until I heard the transparency provided by an electrostatic loudspeaker that I realized just how colored, veiled, and opaque cone speak... | |
| Quack System Upgrades I'm getting a bad feeling. | |
| What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism "Provide a citation to a study showing the 75%reflectivity."Google it. Google is your friend. Would I kid you? | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... "Hate going through the break in process."What’s the difference? Something should always be breaking in, shouldn’t it?😀 |