knittersspouse
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| Double up on speaker cables @1971gto455ho Interestingly, I agree with you on almost everything you said, including the gullible market. The challenge is to weed out the real from the pseudo- engineering from the actual effort to make a significant difference by trial and... | |
| Reel to Reel bbarten - Do you want to tinker, or just enjoy? Many Audiophiles seem more focused on the process of how the music is reproduced than the actual music. As an engineer, I suffer from that too. In the case of R-R, it is first and foremost a mech... | |
| Power cords: does length matter? @immatthewj The really short answer to why most stock power cords are similar is that the cord is seldom the reason for purchase. Many customers don’t know enough to care, and the rest will buy what they want and don’t want to pay much for ... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @immatthewj , So would I, and also if it was the exact same length, strung in the exact location across their room and compared based on the same source playing at the same level. Finally, changing any other characteristic of the room, in... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? davetheoilguy and jpwarren58 : Completely avoiding the issue of value and the ability to discern any differences between a stock cord and an upscale one - I applaud your efforts to focus on what can make a difference vs. whether that dif... | |
| The Midnight Effect - Who-How? Our electrical grid is an amazing thing where your power can be coming from a solar panel this morning, a wind farm this afternoon, a fossil fuel plant this evening, and a hydro station overnight - with none of them being anywhere near you. On its... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape Mijostyn - Many of the old Nagra decks were truly amazing, and if refurbished well, can hold their own against some of the best today. Streaming HRes saves you most of the fuss and the physical interaction with your media. If you just want to ... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape Ah, Retirement! Jan 1 2024! Now I can have some time to play with my toys again. Back in the dark past when decent R2R was all new and I was single, I bulked up on MoR Teac 6010's and TDK or Maxell tapes. (I ran an FM station out of my dorm ro... | |
| Why whole house surge protectors are not enough Mfinch - You may be right that it is hard to get the utility to pay for a new WHSP box, but my goal is to protect my audio equipment investment, and if I can just replace a couple of hundred bucks worth of surge protection and still have my soun... | |
| Why whole house surge protectors are not enough Erik - I totally agree. I speak from the hard experience where the contractor originally building my home ran out of positions in the SE panel and rather than put in breakers with two circuits per box position or add a secondary panel, they jus... | |
| Why whole house surge protectors are not enough Erik - If the spike your equipment encounters is coming from the same branch circuit feeding it (say a wonky vacuum cleaner in the next room), the spike will probably get to your components before it is snubbed by the WHSP back at the service en... | |
| Why whole house surge protectors are not enough Surge protection and isolation are intended to protect you from something from somewhere else getting to the stuff you want to protect. I designed in Whole House protection at the main panel of my home and that protects two ways - between the two... | |
| How acoustic and some simple tweaks can cure audiophile disease for small pocket budget First and foremost, I am not taking sides in the above banter, and as someone who has extremely limited abilities in the area of any language other than a North-Eastern United States variant of what once was English, I can only commend those indiv... | |
| Any High End Tube Preamps with *gasp tone controls? TONE CONTROLS? Blasphemy forthcoming, but hear me out. Equalizers are to help us adjust to the inconvenient truth that there is more than one recording environment in the world. Let us assume for a moment that you are living your dream an... | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? Each to their own in pursuit of a dream… I have a wonderful photo of my listening room that I will not post for reasons of the privacy of the people in the picture. It is of my then-teenage daughter and 20 or so of her friends, enjoying soft dr... |