hifiman5
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| Opening a can of worms All wire conductors encapsulated by a dielectric benefit from burn in. I can't help it if you can't hear the sonic effect of that. I can have sympathy for you though... and I do. 😔 | |
| Opening a can of worms @blindjim An ambassador of forum peace. Ahhhhhh 😇 | |
| Speaker Placement - When it's perfect! @fourwnds Nicely done. It is amazing what a relatively minor adjustment to speaker placement can do to lock in the sound! | |
| Opening a can of worms @kosst_amojan " Nobody ages steaks until they rot. Wine goes corked all the time. A lot of things have an optimal aging period, but forever is never it. I think this cable burn in jazz is pure snake oil. I’ve never heard it. Caps breaking in is ex... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? For me, in my system, it is tube pre into SS amp. However, upon listening to a friend's Martin Logan speakers with a SS pre and top notch Audio Research all tube amp, I realized that the other way around can be just as rewarding in the right set-... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? Are some of us becoming a little too "dogmatic"? And yes Inna, there really are many roads to Rome, so to speak. I am often astonished to hear about the combinations of components and wires and other set-up tweaks that yield great results for li... | |
| Opening a can of worms @whitestix "I often hear folks espouse these run-in beneficial claims, but I never hear about anyone that says after X number of hours that the "components", particularly wire, sounds worst than it did in the beginning. Statistically, it is ... | |
| Anybody still using soft rubber isolation devices? @milpai +1! | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? Tubes are inherently great sounding devices when implemented properly in a circuit design. Tubes always make the best rectifiers in a circuit. If I didn't love the sweet sound of my SS amp I really would consider a tube amp especially as it does... | |
| Anybody still using soft rubber isolation devices? @addyson815 Your point being? I do believe the issue of whether to couple or decouple, whether to drain energy from components or absorb vibrations are still very relevant and will remain so until levitation technology is perfected.😉 | |
| Anybody still using soft rubber isolation devices? Many years ago I bought into the hype around Black Diamond Racing cones/pucks. I invested quite a i bit in their products which now sit abandoned on a shelf in my listening room closet. With as musical as my system should have sounded, there was... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? @rvpiano Thanks! | |
| Opening a can of worms @whitestix I don't think jafant was talking about the wire burning in. That would be silly! What's burning in, or more appropriately "forming" to the wire inside of it, is the dielectric; be it teflon or polyethylene or whatever... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio Physics meets metaphysics?🤨 | |
| Ayre KX-R or PS Audio BHK Pre @srafi There is a lot of fine gear available. You've garnered some good suggestions here. Now is probably the time for research. Make a list of preamps you would be interested in learning more about and set to it. Hopefully as you read of oth... |