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| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit @thyname What has worked for me over the years: take exactly opposite of what AmirM says. In other words, if he likes something, I will never consider buying it. Scratch from my list. This suggests to me that measurements are very reliable in p... | |
| Do audiophiles creat the high prices we complain about. @2psyop I shop budget h-fi. I cannot afford the top of the line stuff. And then there is the line of thought that suggests that one may be too poor to buy cheap things. This might start to make sense if you have ever bought something cheap an... | |
| Do audiophiles creat the high prices we complain about. Yes. But exactly who is complaining and why (bearing in mind that the market segment you are referring to is perhaps dominated by folks desirous of veblen goods). | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @niodari THD takes a mere weighted sum of gain, the second and third degree harmonics. More refined parameter would measure the distortion of the gain, second and third order harmonics separately. Yeah, and SINAD. This is probably not the right... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? @hartf36 The difference could be that I moved an armchair from one corner of my listening room to another, and it completely changed the room acoustics, all else being equal. Does that count? Yes. The all else being equal being the the objectiv... | |
| Politics and Music @jssmith While I pay little attention to lyrics, they do seem to have an effect on some people. The young and undeveloped seem particularly susceptible to musical propaganda. This once happened to me in my youth with songs that were backmasked.... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? @jjtucker Well, this did not go in the direction I had intended, Which intention? 1. My take is that if you can hear a difference, there must be some difference. ...be some difference in what? "Sentence fragment". 2.If a device or cable or w... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Perhaps what we need is an amp with variable second and third harmonic controls, so that we can dial in the exact mix that we prefer. This can be done with digital signal processing, or something similar. I think its a good idea - that is I t... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Actually, I don't know how the second and third order harmonics are dealt with in class d amplifiers in general, and in GaN class d amplifiers, in particular. Any input on the subject would also be appreciated. Perhaps because they are there ... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @snapsc Thankyou for that link, that is tremendous information. This leads me to wonder about the virtues of Purifi module Class D amps. Tests reveal the near total absence of any audible 2nd and 3rd harmonics. I guess it depends on the maker us... | |
| Politics and Music If present-day Russia claims, for example, Tchaikovsky as a "national treasure", then under present circumstances it makes sense not to perform him at the moment. And what exactly would that achieve? | |
| Politics and Music @bondmanp Looking to entertainers for serious thoughts on political issues is like asking your accountant how to fix your boiler. Quite so. Carefully worded to include all manner of superficial vox pop by artists (broadly defined), despite t... | |
| Politics and Music @bdp24 Thankyou for that rather unusual response. | |
| Politics and Music @bdp24 I like what Dylan years ago said: "It’s not left or right, it’s up or down." I don’t agree entirely with this sentiment, but that’s irrelevant - I know very similar words were well known to be attributed to President Reagan. Quite odd, ... | |
| Dumbest cable question @clearthinker That isn’t the dumbest question but it sure is the dumbest answer. I’m working on my own personal interpretation of duality, in a a possibly unsuccessful attempt to fit in with audiophiles. The concept of duality will mean differ... |