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| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers Audioconnection - We could just quit and declare peace on the topic if you want to. Have talked to R.V. in the past, he said he had a reputation as a grouch but I found him personable and straightforward. Have not bugged him about the minor qualit... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers Audioconnection - "Disparaging a great product should be done carefully with honesty and should not be trivial." Seems like you are implying that either I'm not being truthful or else some of the problems I had should be considered trivial and no... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Figured I'd try one more time. Normally when '60 minutes' or whatever smells a scam they go looking behind the curtain for things like manufacturing plants , u.l. lab test reports, etc. Is there anybody out there that has ever seen a boutique fuse... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers Audioconnection - Actually I soldered lighter gauge wire (less chance of damage from overheating) as I could not find room to fit the connectors on the high pass filters and doing the + - arrangement at the speaker crossovers would have been a rea... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Has anyone ever seen the factories where the hi priced fuses are made?I think this is all about putting decals, shiny plating and fancy packaging on plain old industrial fuses, but if production facilities exist somewhere and can be toured then th... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers Audioconnection - I didn't say that the batteries are a 'bad' design. I said "really awful" :). Not disputing their function in providing bias voltage, I just think that they were probably added as an after thought/ improvement subsequent to testi... | |
| Vandersteen 5a battery biased crossovers Helpful thread, thanks all. When I pulled the crossover boards out of my speakers I found that one battery had apparently shorted, and had blown its guts out the bottom. I'm the original owner and do not know when this happened, my guess is that i... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner Lacee. I read the DTCD stuff/Fremer's article on the cable company's website.Would like to have one of those free to play with, or access to enough detail to be able to see what the thing actually does. Would love to find out that I was entirely w... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner "Look at how many different sounding amplifiers there are today, that on paper all measure the same."That is actually just something someone made up, I guarantee it did not come from an electronics/measurement type person.The goal of a good manufa... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner "Some folks are about sound, some are about measurements and seldom do the twain meet."Agreed, but power cords don't know the difference between signal amplification for sound and signal amplification for measurement or any other purpose. Either t... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner Hmm, noticed that Lacee's favorite power cable manufacturer was using a Yokogawa oscilloscope for some development work.I've got the same scope in our shop at work (and its big brother) and they come with a low cost detachable power cord. Dependin... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner "Either you trust the ears or you don't."If you don't blind test there is no way to know if you are trusting your ears, outside of faith and hope which another person mentioned and which I continue to think of as everyones right and privilege. The... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner >>Audiophilia is about faith and hope, not evidence. :)<<"To me , listening is a learned skill ."I think a lot of it is also about training yourself to believe you hear improvements. Making your music sound better is fun and rewarding ... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner Bradluke0 - Noticed on a couple of other posts that you are also concerned about cable resonances if cable elevators are not spaced correctly and believe that cables have a grain structure which dictates a best direction for the cables. It is your... | |
| Sometimes my system sounds great, sometimes awful "Do we hear differently depending the time of day, our mood, heat, cold... other circumstances?"You left out recent noise exposure, current condition of sinus's, current emotional bias (I just changed this thing so now I'm going to believe music s... |