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| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction I may bbuy a pair of $30 tibetian bowls, set them square center on top of my OHMs, and see/listen what happens.OHMs are uniquely designed to enable placing objects on them and having a better than average chance of hearing something different.If n... | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction The inventor is clueless?Hey, at least I presented some reference material to base a theory on.Clueless inventors are a strange bunch. | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction Ring Dem BElls | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction I am a big believer in the principles of yoga (and martial arts) and practice several times a week.I might have to buy a tibetian bowl. Worst case, for $30 bucks, it makes for an interesting conversation piece. | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction " Maybe??"I'd be willing to bet that the new piece of furniture results in different room acoustics than prior, and would not surprise me at all if audible to a careful listener. | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction Nice ones on Amazon for about $30 for the rookies to try if of interest. | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction Rumor has it those things are really bells, and, well probably also ring like a bell, which most audiophiles normally frown upon. | |
| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction Every thing in a room affects acoustics. The only question is to what extent and if significant, and also value in that most anything marketed to audiophiles is likely to carry a premium price for whatever it may or may not do. | |
| New Thiel Speakers - Post Jim Thiel Era ITs true that THiel faces a lot of competition these days whereas they ruled a certain niche in the audio market in years past, so that has to be a challenge for them. | |
| Is a tube phono better than ss? YEs, getting quiet tubes needed for phono is a real consideration for tube phono.My ARC sp16 has 3 tubes in phono stage. I learned from ARC when replacing that only one of the three must meet higher tolerance for low noise use in it. I appreciated... | |
| Your audiogram and your preferred sound Differences in individual hearing no doubt helps account for the wide variety of gear out there that is generally judged to sound good and be of high quality despite the fact that chances are two individuals are not assured to like the same thing ... | |
| Tubes 101 TUbe #s/model merely identify a set of standard parameters that enable different ones to be used interchangeably. These alone do not assure a certain "sound", only that certain models are more likely to work best in a particular design, case by ca... | |
| Is a tube phono better than ss? Easy answer: it all depends (on too many things to give a single answer conclusively in general).Neither has the market cornered on delivering best results case by case. That's why both are still around and have substantial followings. Like Honda ... | |
| Thiel death do we part . . . BLue point cart is one of the few pieces I have owned over the years that in retrospect I would label as clearly "midfi", ie limited potential to help deliver top notch sound.I owned BLue Point and not the "special" which is reputed to be better, ... | |
| New Thiel Speakers - Post Jim Thiel Era Companies have to make a profit. Thiel will do that by selling new speakers. The plain fact is they will do whatever they decide is best to do that. Companies need to innovate usually to remain relevant but they would be foolish to trash the Thiel... |