gerryah930
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| What do audiophiles do in their cars? Great!!! (sarcasm intended)I always end up with a bunch of Porsche racer types...like me. The flat six has a heavenly sound, no need to listen to anything but that, except for the vocalizations that I emit when I instruct a novice driver in Porsch... | |
| Science that explains why we hear differences in cables? mc-Feynman was a great scientist but a bit of a showoff. He had an unusual combination of traits for a physicist - great intelligence as well as the ability to explain his research. I knew him at Caltech many decades ago...those were the days!As i... | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 Good discussion. I use network equipment to stream, and the dedicated audio streamers sound better in my limited experience. I use an Esoteric K-01XD with a FPGA-based sigma alpha DAC ("master discrete") like the N-01XD because I like to spin disk... | |
| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) millercarbon-Robert Harley' book is a great pragmatic guide on how to set up a high end audio system. I also highly recommend a book from Floyd E. Toole called "Sound Reproduction: The acoustics and psychoacoustics of loudspeakers and rooms." I ha... | |
| Two Cables From One? I hate to discourage DYI projects because good cables can be made by hand. However, I have to agree with the general sentiment here - I would not modify an existing cable product in this manner, and the length may be an important variable in why t... | |
| Tiny bridges everywhere, but why? The floor of my listening room is concrete and it is underground, and my house is in the middle of a hundred acres in rural Michigan. I have no detectable noise from anywhere in the room or anywhere, including the AC power lines into the house. Ze... | |
| Has Nordost forgotton who pays the bills? I understand the concern of the OP. Counterfeiting of expensive audio products is a big problem and you are not going to get a great deal of sympathy or help from federal entities that police this domain. Your options are limited, and I do not thi... | |
| what's going on with specs? The biggest variable in the determination of how good something sounds when listening to reproduced or actual live music is the human auditory system. Thus, it is not true that 2 amplifiers that measure the same will sound identical, even if they ... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? 1. Yehudi Menuhin, Bach's partitas and sonatas for solo violin, Washington CT Congregational Church, 1973;2. Dave Brubeck quartet, complete Take Five and Time Further Out (Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Gene Wright, Joe Morello), my family's living r... | |
| DAC That Punches Above Its Price Point If you want to see punching, go to a boxing match..if you want the best DAC, I highly recommend the MSB Discrete, Premier, Reference or Select.People have different opinions that are meaningless in the context of your sound reproduction system and... | |
| Need help buying new speaker cable Dear OP - Ignore what people say here. I am not sure if any of them even listen to music - they seem to like the sound of their own voice better... | |
| Aren't you sorry you missed out on this one? It's already sold out! LOL They do not even have the parts for all of them because they are waiting on their Chinese manufacturers. Current delay is 12 months. | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? Good advice all around. To my ears, being formerly a violinist in a well-regarded orchestra and currently a research scientist, I suggest that the best western classical music available now is contained on high resolution CD disk. Much better than... | |
| Welcome to Smart Home Good luck on your quest. It will be difficult for some of us who grew up in the shadow of WWII, have witnessed the horrors committed by the powers-to-be using unbridled surveillance methods under the guise of national security, and reared on books... | |
| REL vs JL AUDIO This thread has convinced me of something I already knew - since I am strictly a 2 channel audio fan, and do not care a wit about "home theatre", there is no need for me ever to buy a subwoofer. What nonsense... |