mitch2
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| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles I have been playing around with cables lately, and they do sound different from each other, IME and IMO. I have about 6 or 7 different variants here, about half are manufactured cable and the rest DIY. None sound particularly bad to me but I do en... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees (and earlier) | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling I am glad to hear he is ok. Thank you for sharing the information. I never tried the design/construction he recommended but he was certainly passionate about it and those who did make the cables seemed to like them. | |
| Belden 8402, 8412, and 8428 The Belden 8402 ICs are sounding pretty good with the Cardas Golden Cross speaker cables. The Belden 8428 wire arrived yesterday and that stuff is like 8402 on steroids. It is basically the same thing as 8402, except bigger (41 strands of 34awg... | |
| Belden 8402, 8412, and 8428 Finished the third set of Belden 8402 ICs yesterday, cooked them on my Cable Cooker for almost a day, and then connected all three sets to my system: 2M from DAC to passive volume control .5 M from VC to unity gain buffer 1.5 M from buffer to... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Hopefully, everything is ok with him. The last post of his I found was from September. Maybe he is just finding a new hosting site. The build instructions, commentary, and pictures he had posted on his site were quite detailed and so were very ... | |
| Analog invites you to turn up the volume Your point is technically correct since dynamic range is the ratio between the loudest and quietest sounds, yet I have had components that made me want to "chase the volume control" and it always seemed to be related to one component sounding more... | |
| Analog invites you to turn up the volume Maybe this has something to do with it... "The dynamic range of an audio system is a measure of the difference between the smallest and largest amplitude values that can be represented in a medium. Digital and analog differ in both the methods o... | |
| 2024 Form 1099-K IRS tax reporting threshold on PayPal? Don't make this political. BTW, it was placed into effect well before the recent election. This is simply more paperwork for us. Keep records on what you pay for stuff (maybe copy the for-sale ad and write your paid amount and method of payment... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre I may be out of line here, especially never having owned ATC speakers, but isn’t one of the main draws and benefits of owning ATC speakers having the on-board amplification? Dedicated amplifiers that are matched to each driver seems to be an adva... | |
| Is the microwave the perfect model for audio marketting? It probably says something about me that most of my audio gear consists of black boxes that just sit there and perceptively do nothing. The two most exciting features are headlessly managing the server/Roon and changing the volume with a remote. | |
| Starting my showroom again Unless you are looking for a hobby/job to close out your career, I would not envision owning a B&M HiFi shop as being a lucrative business venture, and particularly in a smaller community within 30 miles of a larger community where there are a... | |
| How to PM someone @asvjerry - I wondered whether the issue @soix is having may be related to the credit card thing and/or A’gon’s two-factor authentication. I didn’t think I had a CC on file with A’gon until last week when I purchased something from this site (fir... | |
| How to PM someone What @ozzy62 posted works for the names of people who respond to a post, but not the OP. You can also go to Audiogon (not the forums), then drop down on "Explore" and click "Member Look-up", and then if you enter a member’s user name and "Search"... | |
| Holy cow: Ringo produced by T Bone Burnett! @bdp24 - Thanks for the heads up. I am always a fan of Ringo's collaborations. Interesting to see Larkin Poe show up for one number. Should be fun. |