mkgus
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| Bits Are Bits, Right? A couple notes from my findings last night:Black CD-Rs sound pretty good. With my burner and media, 4x burn speed sounds the best. 2x and 1x sound okay but they aren’t as musical as the original pressing.The media I’m using says max 16x burn speed... | |
| Cambridge Audio CXC Series 2 No doubt. When you open up the CXC, it’s got some very respectable internal components. | |
| Cambridge Audio CXC Series 2 Fair enough. I still recommend that even once you have the Audi you soup it up with power cables. I have yet to meet the piece of gear whose performance isn’t enhanced by a good power cable. | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? Okay, which one of you submitted this question to Paul? The timing is eerie. CD or High Resolution Streaming?https://www.psaudio.com/askpaul/cd-or-high-resolution-streaming/ | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? I agree, the source file is all important. Different remasters no doubt sound different. In my car example, I’ve repeated the test several times. When I play the track from my phone’s memory, it sounds better than streaming even with the example s... | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? Uberwaltz - you’re right. I’m not being fair to the media. I personally believe that a computer has the greatest potential to sound best of all the mediums, however, computers are notoriously noisy environments and very few computer parts are buil... | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? Yep, I love Tidal but I don’t stream in my audio system. It’s nice to have when guests come over so they can play whatever song they want to hear but for me, it’s physical media or nothing. Now maybe things can be improved with a high quality recl... | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? Yes, digital only exists as a mathematical concept. All of reality is analog (at least the reality we deal with - at the scale of Planck time and Planck lengths things may be different). A stream of “digital” data is an analog signal that a comput... | |
| Battery Power Supply Yes_ or No_ Hey, it’s Zipost! I need to give him a shout-out. Zipost was absolutely instrumental with integrating batteries into my system. Very knowledgeable. He even hand-built me some parts that I needed. My system has never sounded better! Thank you, than... | |
| Heavy Metal Anyone? Okay, wait- extreme distortion FILTERS?? So heavy metal would be even more distorted without the filters???!Let’s not debate semantics. Generically, the term ’audio filter’ can be applied to mean anything which changes the timbre or harmonic conte... | |
| Heavy Metal Anyone? This may be difficult to find, but, if you can, listen to Le CouCou by Wargasm. (Album : Why Play Around)That sounds really good. | |
| Heavy Metal Anyone? Heavy metal musicians are no doubt impressive. I wonder, though, what things would sound like if we removed the extreme distortion filters. If you gave a heavy metal musician as acoustic guitar, what would it sound like with the same music? | |
| How to guarantee to lower noise- ground loops in your system If one were to run 10/2 romex (hot, neutral, and ground) and connect it only to one outlet and plug everything into that and then run that line straight to main breaker and land the ground on the grounding bar, does that count? Also, what is an in... | |
| Any reason not to place stand mounted speakers upside down? I’ve had this same thought. Wouldn’t the music be upside down? But seriously, hopefully someone comes along with experience to set the record straight. For starters, what do your speaker footers look like and how would you relocate them to the new... | |
| High End Audio......Sucking the Romance out of the Music? Only during the initial evolutionary phases of the set up process when you listen to your system instead of the music. Once things come together, the speakers disappear completely and buzz-words cease to have meaning because it’s just the sound of... |