pabelson
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| DIY cables Vs Mass market cables. Yeah, I was responding to Mapleleaf's recommendation. I just replaced a set of copper cables I'd been using for about 20 years. Extent of copper oxidation: trivial. The only bit that oxidizes is what's immediately exposed to air. Assuming your con... | |
| DIY cables Vs Mass market cables. Hmmm...8 feet of 24 AWG silver has a resistance of about 0.2 ohms. That's some 15 times the resistance of 12 AWG copper. It also costs about 10 times as much. Something to think about as you proceed. | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? If as Eldartford suggests, Pabelson is correct that science knows but audiophiles don't, then why is there not just one best cable, one best speaker, one best amp.Because science doesn't tell us that there is only one best anything. Thanks for pro... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? No, Mootsdude, it's actually a great example. Science had an answer--you just didn't know it. And when you were told it, you started speculating without any basis in fact, instead of just accepting the answer. That's exactly what too many audiophi... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Double4w: You sound entirely too sensible to be hanging out here. To be an audiophile, apparently, you must be obsessively interested in a highly technical hobby while remaining willfully ignorant of the science behind that hobby. I don't know how... | |
| Speaker cables which bring out more bass? The best way to get more bass from a speaker cable is to pull it tight and pluck it. | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? I wouldn't be so sure that these guys fall under the legal definition of consumer fraud. All they claim is that if you put the clock in your listening room, your system will sound better. And they have testimonials from customers confirming this. ... | |
| Who is a big high end cable manufacturer Belden. Heck, they probably make most of it. | |
| Bluebook value of records The bible, so to speak, is the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. It lists over 65,000 LPs, with prices based on condition. Be aware that these are "book" values. Whether you pay book value depends on where you are buying. Specialist dealers can c... | |
| Help ? with upgrade to budget system Memeboy is giving you great advice. You want a new system, but you don't need a new system. You need new speakers, and depending on what speakers you get, you might also need a new amp (which could be just a power amp if your current integrated ha... | |
| compressing music files If you try to further compress something that's already compressed, you will indeed get something that sounds "horriable." That's because the stuff that codecs strip out is already gone. If you go back to the original uncompressed file (if you hav... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? I don't understand why people are so keen on trashing this particular product. It has no less scientific legitimacy than any number of tweaks that you wouldn't dare criticize unless you were prepared to weather a storm--green pens, cable lifts, ma... | |
| HT system education Yeah, but that's Bose. (And while many Bose products do legitimately stink, most of the people who rag about them have never heard them. They just think it shows off their refinement to scorm that particular company.) I wouldn't automatically cond... | |
| HT system education My advice is, don't try. I'm not aware of any remotely decent wireless speakers, surround or otherwise. Plus, your current setup has your main fronts on a different plane than your center, which is not ideal, to say the least.I suggest you conside... | |
| Talking Heads Remastered Did I say that Sony has abandoned SACD? |