millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| What DB level is best for judging audio equipment? One of the very best listeners I ever knew, Stewart Marcantoni, never did play anything louder than about 80-85 dB. But that was Stewart. Me, I like to play at a level where its satisfyingly loud but below the level that starts to hurt or bring on... | |
| Barometric pressure, temperature, moon phase? the stereo sounds ever so slightly, not quite there. It did the other day, but tonight, it’s missing some tiny bit of something. Has this ever been experienced by any of you out there? One day magnificent, another day, just ever so slightly n... | |
| Barometric pressure, temperature, moon phase? Case in point. | |
| Barometric pressure, temperature, moon phase? Perceptions are NOT reality. They are just perceptions. Science provides us with zero evidence the entire known universe is anything other than a lot of particles and charges just zinging around all over the place. There is in this world no light... | |
| A little History lesson on, "High- End" cables: Ted who? | |
| Upgrading sub to get a live feel. Right. As an example of just how well this DBA approach works, when my four were first installed all I did was plop them down facing the walls each one a little different distance from the corners. Instantly and without any adjustment the bass was... | |
| Are these damned brands or not good speakers? I ran into some of these boutique type speakers many years ago. As I recall they all sounded pretty good they just seemed to my inexperienced at that stage ears to be not worth the money. The only one whose name I recall was the Linaeum Model 10 w... | |
| Power cord recommendation for a dac? Synergistic Research Master Coupler. Synergistic is known for just the sound you described, and the Master Coupler is The Gold Standard of power cords, made for 25 years because yes, it is that good. Most of their newer/more expensive ones are eve... | |
| Balanced vs RCA between amp/preamp Beating a dead horse...Balanced are designed for professional use. That is why they are designed with the ground making contact first- professional use sees a lot of stuff being connected/disconnected while powered up. Making the ground connection... | |
| Balanced vs RCA between amp/preamp Actually the performance "hit" is when you pay more for balanced and get less for your money than RCA. Balanced is one of those things that makes a lot of sense for professional use running long distances and lots of connections giving the locking... | |
| I wonder why...... Nonoise, your friend reminds me a lot of this one audiophile I used to know. He couldn’t go two words about wire without turning it into some kind of rant or snide comment. Or for sure the eye roll or like you said, facial expressions and body lan... | |
| Separate Phono Pre - $$ before I will hear a SIGNIFICANT difference vs. integrated? Without knowing anything about your particular NAD, what I have heard from all receivers anywhere and at any price point, they are crap compared to what you can get for the same money in any integrated. Its simple math and economics. Any time you ... | |
| Upgrade from Sumiko Blue Point #2 Sticking with Audio Technica the best you can hope for is "a bit" more. It is AT however. A very technical as in the opposite of warm sounding line. You would probably be more likely to find what you're looking for in a Benz. | |
| Best Record Cleaning Fluid What's missing from the article that's causing the scanning electron microscope kerfuffle is that in order to look at it with the SEM the record is first electroplated. It has to be, because being an electron microscope it uses electrons. As for m... | |
| Hafler PH60 You mean like you should try them and see? |