mikhailark
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| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? Nope. Minor improvements with simple-designed tube amps that naturally have poor input and output impedances and are obviously affected by cable capacitance and inductance. With properly designed gear audio recording studio type XLR is sufficient. | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? You may want to consider entire house surge protection instead. There are commercial/industrial solutions like from Siemens with $75K insurance for 10 years. These are REAL things that WILL protect (Monster never protected mine, it is all lies). A... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @toddalin - It can be done, but who exactly needs it - as in who would pay for it. Audiophile community does not care. Speaker measurements exists because they are used in professional audio where no one "just trust their ears". Now, imaging is a ... | |
| Ethernet @antigrunge2 - where does it mess with USB and how? SPDIF - sure. This is why no one should be using coax. I am yet to hear explanation on USB. Ethernet even more resilient. Everything is retransmitted if there is an error. Again - your email does... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @calvinj OP - have you noticed sound changes with the amount of consumed adult beverages? So there :-) Also, never underestimate how furniture, rearranged by your SO affects the sound! | |
| Yes, digital cables matter too Why would anyone use coax cable? | |
| Ethernet Blue Jeans is what you want. Anything over is a scam. Ask yourself - does Amazon (Tidal, etc) use $1000 Ethernet cables in their data centers? No? Why would you? | |
| ifi LAN iSilencer So what does it "silence" exactly in the Ethernet protocol | |
| Beware, scammers everywhere How’s about this - "no, I don’t see twice the amount on my account. So I am not wiring anything back. You can take it with your bank or sue me. Good luck." Wire per se is not necessarily a bad thing. You know, businesses do it all the time... | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. Mine are actually toed up since otherwise tweeters are too low | |
| XLR cable placement It depends on sensitivity of specific unit to cable change. Tube gear is typically most sensitive, with older, simpler designs being most sensitive. | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. @coppy777 - it is way cheaper to buy an EQ or Dirac-capable DAC than to EQ room by changing speakers. | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. As always, GR is right. Another "audiophile" company sells poorly engineered, but "audiophile" piece of nice furniture. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @toddalin - pretty easily by waterfall and some calculations of the sound field distribution across the room. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @spenav - there is nothing "unknown" in USB or Ethernet protocol. Your signed mortgage documents do not change with time and ripped music does not lose any bits sitting on a hard drive :-) Are you concerned that music file may change when you copy... |