jhnnrrs
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| Free Tip for Jumpers You guys do realize that despite all your manipulations all these connections are going to exactly the same point electrically. The claims for "astounding" improvements are just simply hogwash, and represent the wants of the user, not the realiti... | |
| Ethernet cables Except for audioman58's spew of absolute nonsense, I am so glad that no one on this thread has suggested $500+ snake oil Ethernet cables. It gives me hope for this group! | |
| GentooPlayer - A saga of misery Thanks, I will look into AudioLinux. There was quite a sound quality leap (very unexpected!) when I went from Daphile to Volumio, so I'm always out looking for that next leap. | |
| GentooPlayer - A saga of misery I have been grappling with GentooPlayer, trying understand it and just get it to work. I have used Windows, Daphile and Volumio on my mini-PC very successfully over the last few years, but GentooPlayer has proven to be extremely unfriendly. I pu... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? <knock, knock> "Who's there?" "Reality" "Reality who?" "The reality that bit you in the butt when you got suckered into an expensive power cord" | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords Just use a three cord plug. It will be fine. As to whether it will shield RF, that is not the point of the third conductor, which is to ground the chassis of the electronic equipment. Oh, and burn it in, freeze it, bury it in dirt for 30 days... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... @bigtwin Wow! Someone else knows about Opus 3, Test Record 1 - Depth of Image! It has been my standard since first hearing it while demoing Mission 770's back in 1981. The two standout cuts for me for depth are "Tiden Bara Gor" and "Polka from ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @rauliruegas I couldn't relate to what JPM was saying until I started switching between my moving magnet (Shure, A/T), Moving iron (Grado, Stanton) and LOMC (Dynavector Ruby). Then it became more and more apparent. The MC was just more transpare... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? The best explanation came from J. Peter Moncreiff (IIRC) who said that moving magnet/moving iron cartirdges impart a fuzziness to the instruments that is missing from a moving coil. The effect is subtle, but noticeable as an overall cleaner, more... | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? Most garbage speakers I have seen (and heard) had 3 things in common: Cheap connectors, a little tab to pull off the velcro attached front grille, and a frequency response graph showing flat response from 30Hz to 22kHz. | |
| Heavy speakers: How to be able to reposition? It's probably easier to move your chair...or knock down a wall. | |
| How Is This Possible? Must be Counterfeits They may be knockoffs, but they're probably much closer to the actual value of the originals. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review @soix I disagree with your assessment of the sites you mentioned. I find them little more than advertising media for uber-hi-end equipment and useless, expensive audiophile jewelry. Any site that devotes two thirds of its viewing space to ads (the... | |
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can Remarkably, no one's touched on the elephant in the room: You've got all this McIntosh gear and are using a low-fi piece of junk ADC equalizer. First thing I would do is ditch it. You will find that the system suddenly sounds more open, with be... | |
| TAS. The Absolute Sound? @jbmac75 "The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, and HiFi+ are outstanding sources of information and comparisons." Yes...how does this $50,000 amp compare to that $60,000 amp. Very helpful to many of us. How many times have they reviewed a sub $500... |