holmz
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| At a given price point, better to go late vintage or modern? I have heard these in person… https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/loudspeakers/march_audio_sointuva/ They have an Olive score of 6.7, The 2C have an Olive score of 4.4, which is pretty remarkable for speakers in that vintage. I don’t think you ca... | |
| How Big of a Difference? I do Not hear a difference between cables on the floor as opposed to elevated....therefore they will stay on the floor... Confucius Say, “That well grounded system.” | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? Oh man, I feel for you. But then, I glanced at your profile picture, and realized you speak the truth. There are less thing to remember that way. 😎 | |
| At a given price point, better to go late vintage or modern? So to my ears, you are really picking among two very different schools of thought … They are both designed as time and phase correct, They are more similar than dissimilar (IMO). So one should be able to DSP there way to taste, or the room’... | |
| How Big of a Difference? I am not anti-cables and my view is that if someone hears a positive difference between one cable and another (or lifting then off the floor) then that is all that matters. The difference is real for them. This is pretty much how we get to al... | |
| How Big of a Difference? I'm not surprised you didn't hear a difference between the USB cables ... that's because there IS no difference. Any decent USB cable brings the 0's and 1's to the other end perfectly fine without errors. With speaker cable there could be audibl... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? This is a thread with a 140 posts, from people that have years and years of hands on experience at the topic on hand, and in comes a bumbling blow-hard know it all, and proceeds to emphatically claim that everyone here is delusional, and his 5... | |
| Static electricity affecting sound reproduction. Please help!! If it was me, then I would sell that Furman power conditioner. (And probably get a humidifier with the proceeds.) Or at least remove it from the system to see if it is the thing that is correlated with the badness. But at least we know it is ... | |
| At a given price point, better to go late vintage or modern? I have a better idea… What is in the non-vacation house? I have Vandersteen 2Cs, and would suggest that the Treos might be better. And the 2c should be better than 1Cs… depending on age/model, room size, etc. If you upgraded the house and moved ... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? That’s a very long cumbersome way to express your belief that cables have zero impact to the performance of any audio system. And since you are also of the belief that “we hear what we want to hear”, I take it you never tried (as in listen) for y... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? ^That is true^. But the OP asked the question specially about the 4 items he/she mentioned. They did not ask about “the room”, however it is an area which is more likely to get value happening, than a fuse or power cord IMO. Just that it was not ... | |
| Need new headphone setup. What do you mean by “using the IEM without a pad?’ “In Ear Monitor” = (IEM) And I meant with an iPad. If you use an iPad now, then an “In Ear Monitor” (IEM) seem like a progression. For isolation of external noise the order is: IEM Closed... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? Hearing aids work, you should try one 🙏. And anti-psychotic drugs can remove voices. 🙏 We hear what we want to hear, and spending thousands on a piece of copper wire in teflon or some other cover has never been measured to show where the woo... | |
| Small speakers, bass, EQ, Compression That was very well done. | |
| Need new headphone setup. If you currently use cheap ear buds, then maybe another option to consider is something like Etymotic “In Ear Monitors” (IEM)? Even with an iPad dongle, or with a standard iPhone 1/8” audio out they are surprisingly good. If you are looking at c... |