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| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature mapman OP13,766 posts10-13-2016 11:18amGeof from what I've read I suspect one thing we would agree on is admiration for Bob Dylan.You probably need to watch Don't Look Back again.;-) | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? noromance380 posts10-13-2016 8:32amThe worst part is when people think they have to spend 20% of their budget on cables.Some people actually aren't on a budget. Whoa! What!! | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Bad link to 21st century isolation. :-( | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature As always the Nobel committee is right on top of it. | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? Expectation bias is actually a quite different phenomenon from placebo effect. Both are frequently used as "the real reason" why audiophiles hear certain hard to swallow tweaks or expensive cables. | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Use an external fan like the O 2 Cool (get it?) to cool down the offending tubes. Then you can use the Herbies dampers. I used to have the Bada headphone amp, a great hybrid tube amp that runs real hot. I u... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? The word "microphonic" itself is a little ambiguous as even tubes that are referred to or marketed as non-microphonic are in fact slightly microphonic, which can be easily demonstrated by using some effective tube dampers. Furthermore even things ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? There are a bunch of really interesting designs for audiophile and non-audiophile iso stands, many of which are actually not active designs, not the least of which is the complicated Minus K negative stiffness stand and the magentic levitation typ... | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK I think it's worth mentioning that for larger tubes like 6SN7 and large rectifier tubes such as the coke bottle Tung Sol, a second Herbies damper placed on the base of the tube will further improve upon the first damper (which should be located on... | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK one observation is that all or almost all other dampers have a lot of contact surface area with the glass whereas Herbies dampers have the extreme minimum contact area due to their very clever construction. As Isoclean the Japanese high end empori... | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK Audiolover718 wrote,"The ARC rings sound constricted by comparison and almost give, dare I say "nervous" kind of presentation. The herbies brought a very relaxed sound, with an added sense of ease and weight to the sound. I believe the rings have ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Mitch wrote,"If you pile enough technical jargon in one place you can pretty much use that as copy to sell audiophiles just about anything but, Geoff, you don’t need me to tell you that.This is not quite the most fun I have had today but it is pro... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... mapman13,754 posts10-08-2016 1:20pmSeinfeld. Revenge of the Nerds Part 2 | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... mitch21,297 posts10-08-2016 2:54pm Geoffkait: "I suspect you’re confusing evidence with proof."to which Mitch replied,"The essence of audio cable marketing 101....Mad Men"How is marking cables or fuses for direction a marketing ploy? Share, share.... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... mitch21,296 posts10-08-2016 2:06pmcontradictory views and evidence against them...Geoffkait: "Many high end interconnects and speaker cables are marked for directionality and have been for 25 years. High end fuses have been marked for directionali... |