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| Your audiogram and your preferred sound Had the test a few years back, apart from a very minor loss of the deepest tones in my left ear my hearing was normal for someone my age (early 50's, at the time). AFA warm/bright equipment goes, all of that is among people who compare (or should ... | |
| Use Your Own Ears "It's not the price we pay for equipment, it's the music!" Amen to that. It seems I've increasingly seen that idea come home to roost time and again in my 40 years in this hobby. It's now beginning to strike me as fairly commonplace that people ca... | |
| $1500 for a whole system, budding audiophile Also, don't exclude new equipment from online makers that do not have any distributorship for their products (Emotiva comes to mind...and sometimes they have various holiday sales). | |
| Shocking 3D sound in 2 channel Not all speakers can do this (although, I'd be willing to bet there are more speakers out there that can do this than most of us may suppose...and yet, also, I'd bet that most people tend to (mistakenly, IMHO) assume that this is somehow primarily... | |
| Proofreader wanted As to #1) No, they mean "UV" meters, since the new Yamaha has a response "from DC to (ultraviolet) light"!As to #2) It must be great to be a reviewer, since apparently you can upload your write up during happy hour! | |
| Anyone know of a source for long-fiber wool? Geoff, yes indeed, that's what has kicked off my experimentation with it. The manufacturer originally overstuffed it with just plain ol'e fiberglass....yuk. The enclosure is a simple cylinder made of thick sonotube with a flat square of 3/4" mdf g... | |
| Anyone know of a source for long-fiber wool? Didn't realize there was a moth problem, but this is for a sealed midrange. | |
| Anyone know of a source for long-fiber wool? Thanks Geoff! | |
| The Death of Tubes? Thanks everybody, good replies all. I will be keeping an eye on it in the future from time to time, but hopefully it won't be impacting us directly... | |
| Intractable Problem Hi Richard, I'm really echoing Sandstone here, but, from your op, it *looks* like you've narrowed things down to your Ayre (output stage problem???). But, I too would be curious to how long you've had the problem, under what circumstances it arose... | |
| Problems with Mapleshade cables I've used their balanced IC's and digital IC's for about 3 years now. Sold off the digital IC's so I could try something more expensive that was unique in that those IC's provided passive noise reduction - otherwise I don't think I would've been t... | |
| Cost effective Schumann Resonator RW: Thank you very much for the kind words. I think there is at least one alternative that has appeared only in the last month or so from Alan Maher designs (AMd or Alan P Maher on his facebook store). I don't yet know all that much about how it w... | |
| Cost effective Schumann Resonator Hi all, please don't take this the wrong way. I don't want to rain on anybody's parade or anything and I certainly don't doubt what anybody hears with it, but just be aware that it's my understanding that the Schumann Resonator is actually designe... | |
| Tone Controls can be so nice. Every form of EQ or tone controls out there, just from a technical standpoint, have their own set of advantages and disadvantages when it comes to how they can affect sound quality. Phase or noise problems and not being able to do much for time-do... | |
| Can better parts..... Better parts can sometimes translate into better sound. And sometimes not. But simply arranging for better parts to be installed does not make for a better mod or a better modder. The modder needs to be intimately familiar with each particular cir... |