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The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance
 I came to discover quite a few things, like how to make 100% inaudible/lossless IC`s, speakercables, spdif coax & powercord If its inaudible, wouldn't that be a 100% loss? 
Banana Plugs too narrow
Tricky old audiophile? No, that's not it.Don't worry. I'll keep looking! 
Banana Plugs too narrow
It took several videos, but the interweb really does have all the answers. Bananas have split sides. Stick a screwdriver in there, twist it sideways, widen the slit. This will increase your girth. But you will lose a little length. Your banana wil... 
Banana Plugs too narrow
Wouldn't risk going bare, even if you are pretty sure where that speaker has been, it could have had a spade on the side. And.. wait, is this a 3-way we're talking about? Or ... five??? 
Go Active Crossover or Upgrade existing XOs?
Listen fellas, its not just a river in Egypt, okay?Still waiting to hear, if its so great, why all the world’s greatest cost no object systems aren’t doing it? I mean, its not like there’s some vast audiophile industrial complex conspiracy to... O... 
Tekton DI's or Klipsch Forte III
Right.I noticed the YouTube thing quite by accident. Listening to a suggested video of a record being played first thing I noticed the sound was quite a bit different than the usual YouTube sound. Of course as we all know, its impossible for anyon... 
Banana Plugs too narrow
There used to be ads for this in the back of every magazine. Nowadays though I think you have to do a search for banana enlargement. 
Eh hem!...Subwoofers... What do ya know?
Do you have any experience using the Crawl Test for anybody locating less than four subwoofers?This is the one where you put a sub in the listening spot and walk or crawl around looking for where the bass is best, and that's where you put the fi... 
Has to be said
Its not the greatest example, but the info in the link GK posted above is hardly irrelevant, and far from obfuscating. Its probably just that the whiner is unfamiliar with the concepts. Even so, all that means is it takes longer as you have more t... 
Where is the AC fuse located on the SLI-80
If you get hit by lightning, good luck with the UPS. 
Considering the option of "DSP speakers"
If your question is what would it take to make a DSP speaker system sound really good, there's a really simple solution. Its not cheap or easy but guaranteed to make any DSP speaker sound really good.First I went and listened to the flagship Merid... 
Go Active Crossover or Upgrade existing XOs?
That’s the technical version. While technically correct, there must be something else going on, or all the world’s best cost no object million dollar systems would be doing this, and all the statement speakers would be designed for it. Which, wait... 
Where is the AC fuse located on the SLI-80
In amps with one fuse it should be located close to the incoming power and before the power transformer. So look for the IEC, follow the wires...The pdf manual I found didn't say anything about removing a bottom cover. Sometimes the fuse is incorp... 
Whats the popular brand, most musical, digital cable now? What format?
Wait- you want what's "popular"? Or what's good?I ask because you also say, "I hope its not thin sounding."All the really popular stuff is thin sounding, although I prefer to call it hifi as that captures a lot of other faults at the same time and... 
Why no “Break in” period?
litho=stonecephalic=headlithocephalic=head full of rocksExample: One way to come off as pretentious is to use big high falutin words like lithocephalic when plenty of words like dense, dull, dim, etc will do.