kijanki
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| Cable Costs Relative to System Muralman - from technical point of view dielectric constant of insulation affects capacitance between wires as well as dielectric absorption. Mylar is horrible and it is leading reason of bright tweeters in cheap speakers. Mylar's dielectric const... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Muralman - Absolutely agree - less is more. 0.5m IC is much better than 1m IC and every addition takes away from clarity. I keep cables as short as possible and use DACs volume control to avoid using preamp. Some people claim that adding preamp im... | |
| Amps direct to wall vs. power conditioner? Brauser - I use Rowland 102 with Furman Elite 20PFi and find cleaner midrange and better controlled bass. I understand that certain conditioners might drop voltage during very high peaks making it sound less dynamic but both Rowland amps, yours an... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System "Yup, the $100/pair IC's were identical in performannce with perhaps an even greater dynamic range and enhanced clarity"Yes, I've heard stories like that before. Next person says that he bought $0.12 wire in Home Depot and it was much better than ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw723 - Don't you have any financial limitations? If not, I can recommend an amp (Stereophile class A few years ago) that costs $350k - perfect sound, no compromises there. For the rest of us it is always choice between many factors. Many audioph... | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Magfan - It is possible that I don't have any loss of dynamics with conditioner because of SMPS that is regulated. If conditioner drops voltage at high current peaks SMPS is responding fast holding regulated voltage on the output. Icepower class D... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "I am actually somewhat agnostic." - don't worry, there is a cream for that. | |
| Hyperion 938 or Defenitive Technology Mythos ST?? Trendy - my dealer told me that it is only a rumor and Hyperion is introducing new speaker in January i $10k range. | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? "Fundamentals count here more than glitz and weird science"Magfan - Open minded people get extra benefit of better sound thru placebo effect while sceptics and "scientists" will never get improvement in cabling. | |
| Line voltage is 116 not 120 why? Magfan - My Conditioner corrects it, but I bough it purely for filtering and good non-sacrificial overvoltage protection. I cannot often understand how things like power cables or conditioners improve (or destroy) sound but I trust experience of f... | |
| Where do you buy good CD recordings? I buy at amazon.com or tower.com. Amazon has better website with reviews and I always had very good luck with Amazon Marketplace - used and new. | |
| DAC benefit compared to denon3930 Loomisjohnson - Only you can decide that. Benefit of upsampling DACs lies in jitter rejection and not conversion frequency. For instance if you deliver 24/192 signal to Benchmark DAC1, it will output it to 24 bit DAC at 110kHz (going in the proces... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Shadorne - I don't question existence of better recordings or better equipment. I just don't want to have gear that sound natural to experts and wrong or boring to me. Somebody mentioned going to studio and listening to what they listen to (to hav... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tvad - You forgot "analog vs. digital" and "tube vs. SS" | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw723 - no I would not adjust sound for individual songs but rather pick affordable system that sounds best to me on average with the type of music I listen to. Whole issue of neutrality is very fishy since there is nothing to compare to. Should ... |