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| Cable Burn In If you hear no difference after time passes, you've lost nothing. If you do perceive an improvement in the openness of your sound then yippee! Riddle me this, Batmen: How do you know it's the cables?Hearing changes all the time. Fatigue, stimulan... | |
| Cable Burn In @n80 Check out http://ielogical.com/Audio/#ConnectorCleansing and http://ielogical.com/Audio/WinterBlues.php for just some of the things that can affect systems on a day to day basis.The universe runs on math.If I have a preamp with a 1KΩ output ... | |
| Speaker spike feet? Spikes must pierce the carpet. Position without the spikes and then set once satisfied with location.Spike geometry, as long as they are sufficiently robust for 100lb speakers, is largely marketing hype / bias confirmation.Be aware that very sharp... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? And just how is someone who barely knows which end of soldering iron to hold supposed to ascertain all the parameters which go into making a functional crossover?For all but the most basic cookbook crossover, which has an extremely slim chance of ... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? Since some capacitors require "hundreds of hours" of burn in, which in itself may be questioned, there will innumerable other changes in line voltage, RF, ambient temperature and pressure, user acuity, etc. so as to make the ratings quite possibly... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? Age is a factor for electrolytic caps. Industry standard life is 15 years. Even if capacitance is still within spec, ESR is probably quite a bit higher than when new.Polypropylene caps usually sound much better than electrolytic or mylar.Replacing... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? I beg to differ on the sand cast resistorsIt depends on the implementation. MRA resistors are wire wound and designed to minimize reactance at RF frequencies.If the original design was tweaked to include the resistor reactance, changing them could... | |
| Should I recap my speakers? If so who can do it? I did my speakers with caps from Erse. VHQ metalized film. http://www.erseaudio.com/Products/PulseX Very reasonable and I could not be happier. Excellent sound.No need to change resistors. I would however, remove the FASTON connectors and solder ... | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? IMO, phase has been ignored because so few people have heard a properly phased system. Designers who don't understand the importance choose to ignore it and the media play along. Few systems are phase correct to begin with and those that are rarel... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? Multiple woofers in a column have a time delay.Assume 3 woofers spaced 12" apart at 1, 2 & 3 feet from floor, a 15 foot listening distance and a 4 foot ear height. Relative to the direct wave from w1, @ 350Hz w2 ≈11° and w3 ≈30° of phase shift... | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? To this point, no one has mentioned phase.Minimum phase error trumps small deviations in frequency response in contribution to a realistic and non fatiguing presentation six ways to Sunday.It is a great failing of the audio press that phase has be... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" @hdm +10 WOW! An informational analysis. What a breath of fresh air. | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? Neither PC desktop speakers or automobile can be considered Hi Fidelity. Most here probably consider your post a troll and hence the lack of typical blatherskite response.An ideal source would is a point as it would have no coloration from cabinet... | |
| Are there any really good cd cleaners out there? then it should be possible to capture the data stream pre and post treatment and do a bit by bit comparison. | |
| Vandersteen Sub woofers v Rythmik Subs @hifiman5 Only a proselyte would believe that it is possible for a dumb amplifier to change characteristics based on it's driving source. If that were possible, changing any of the 'perfect' electronics in our systems would hopelessly dependent on... |