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| Review: Mad Scientist White Magic Interconnects @foggyus91 Why am I here? I find these pages good for a laugh, and generally chuckle to myself at the voodoo science generally indulged in here. But sometimes, like when a 200 hour burn-in is "necessary" for an AC cord, my brain rails at the utt... | |
| Review: Mad Scientist White Magic Interconnects Shame. So companies can sell run of the mill AC cables and interconnects, claiming they are made from "super secret materials", without the need for verification or proof of their claims with objective, repeatable tests, spewing meaningless pseud... | |
| Review: Mad Scientist White Magic Interconnects @jrdavisphd Because in New Zealand, like the UK, there are laws against false advertising, misrepresentation, and fraud. | |
| Walk-in soundstage @newbee I had the same experience with the same recording (specifically the track "Tiden Bara Gar"). It was in 1981 at Lyric Hi Fi in White Plains, NY, and I was choosing between Mission 770's and DCM Time Windows. The DCM smeared the image and ... | |
| Upgrade from Martin Logan Sequel II's to ???????? Moving from panel speaker to box, prepare to have your soundstage shrunken in width and depth, you image specificity to suffer, your transparency to grow veils, and male (and some female) vocalists to sound chesty and boxy. I estimate 2 weeks bef... | |
| Help please! Something amiss with my digital chain It's often been said, and it's been my experience as well, that a preamplifier can add dynamics and life to your music. So that is my recommendation. The recommendations of others regarding new switches, ethernet cables, power cords and conditio... | |
| Listening Room or Components or my ears? Six feet is very close together. Can you move them apart and toe them out more - get out of the tweeter's death ray? | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? Utter nonsense. I challenge ANYONE here to see if they can hear the difference between a $50,000 DAC and a $5000 one. Hell, even a $1500 DAC. You don't need to spend as much on a DAC as you would on a car. | |
| new Parasound A21+ vs my old Rotel RB-1080 I have ML ESLs, and I've used them with Rotel, Parasound, Conrad-Johnson Sonographe, some Chinese class D's, and Hafler. The ESL are extremely crisp and clean in the high end and the only amp that diminished that was the Parasound (it was a low e... | |
| Which is best, using balanced or non-balanced connection? I have a preamp on my desk and an amp on the shelf above it. The cable runs amongst various other signal and power cables and there was always an audible level of hum coming from the speakers. Substituting RCA for XLR removed the hum completely.... | |
| A cable too perfect? @mclinnguy I practice every day! I spend at least an hour a day banging my head against a brick wall in the hopes I may someday knock all semblance of common-sense out of my brain and truly become a cable-idolizing audiophile. | |
| A cable too perfect? Yes...200 hours. You see when the cables are first connected, a scout electron is deployed whose job it is to examine the route and send back information regarding how far it is to the destination, curves, rises and dips along the way, weather co... | |
| Package Has Disappeared in USPS System A couple of times, when I've gotten notice that my package was delivered, I found it in someone else's mailbox around the corner and down the street. Complaining to the Post Office is less than useless. Turns out they hire totally untrained peop... | |
| B&W 705s3 vs Kef Meta R3 The 705s3 are one of the best sounding of the B&W's. As far as I am concerned, the KEF R3 Meta are just awful sounding - lacking dynamics, excitement, and frequency extension. | |
| SR Tuning Discs, Psychoacoustic Bias and Listening Fatigue I think many of the "night-and-day differences" are attributable to head position, mood, expectation bias, gullibility, nasal conditions, and a host of other issues not related to audio quality. Companies like Synergistic Research, Furutech, Pang... |