mapman
Responses from mapman
| Apple to Acquire Beats Audio Overall, I despise Apples products, mostly due to its closed nature and how that allows Apple to milk money from its dependent customers.On the flip side, Apple stuff is easier to use and learn usually, so if you need that or don't mind doing thin... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "Rather than a believer or a skeptic, I guess you could call me a pragmatist with a technical background."A very healthy and practical perspective for one to have in this arena I would say. | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "the real question then becomes: where does one draw the line"The answer these days is whenever GeoffKait/Machina Dynamica offers up his support.But that's just me. | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs No doubt modern tools for addressing room acoustics can be invaluable, if used correctly.I suspect many high end vendors at shows would rather take a right hook shot from Jon Jones than introduce any external signal processing into their sterling ... | |
| What to do with bad recorded CDs I added a Pangea AC14SE power cord for my DAC recently. The biggest difference I seem to notice with this is that my worst loudness wars CDs that had some edge to them prior are no longer fatiguing to listen to. A good example is Accelerate by REM... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs "These days many shops are only interested in making the most money. The quality is less important."All one has to do is look around to see this more and more and audio is no exception.Luckily there are still many exceptions, but its getting harde... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs Most women feel the same way about jewelry. | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs "I guess I'm thinking; who cares? There are plenty of scams in this world, steer clear if possible. What's the huge revelation?"Apparently, the line between a scam and not is often not as clear in high end audio, since someone can always claim to ... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs "I still don't understand why you and Mapman bother to tell us your view, which many of us think is nonsense. Just enjoy your music. "Well, at least not all then. :^)I hear a lot of nonsense the other way as well.There is something to be said abou... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "Mapman, please just go ahead and buy any fuse that works and stop trying to muck up the discussions that other wish to have with more empirical listeners."Tbg, my ears tell me I am an empirical listener just as yours tell you which direction the ... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "Is it possible the fuse is constructed in such a way that it performs better one way than the other."That is a very good question! | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed ALso, why burden people with a directional fuse and provide no useful guidance on which way to instal it in teh first place? Why not just make it work similarly well both ways and save people the work of trying to figure it out themselves? I can b... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "Mapman, how many times must you recite your mantra?"Until someone acknowledges that there is no direction with AC current so there cannot be a right or wrong.THis is a fact and valid point. TO ignore it shows a disregard for facts when they stand... | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "So there would seem to be no way to know which direction is correct, although in this case the writer at least cites some measurements made, FWIW."Even worse...there IS no direction with AC current, so there CANNOT be a correct or incorrect one. | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "Second, there was less line noise when measured with the orientation of the fuse along current flow within the circuit.Second, there was less line noise when measured with the orientation of the fuse along current flow within the circuit."It's al... |