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| "I Trust My Ears" Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or random patterns, often leading to false interpretations or beliefs. Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a meaningful image or pattern where none actually ... | |
| White debris on front of cartridge Schmutz, as opposed to Peruvian Marching Powder, does tend to accumulate deep in grooves, whereas the latter tends to get removed by nasal vacuum. Stylus shape and arm geometry also.play their part in digging out deeply lodged schmutz while the el... | |
| Your favorite Small Apartment Speakers @arion1 DSP is a wonderful technology, but it absolutely cannot change anything about the room. This is one of the great misunderstandings in audio, DSP can only change the input from your speaker into that space. The output of the space to your ... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @calvinandhobbes No, recovery is not instantaneous, nor does it need to be. The incoming packets are stored in a buffer then released when the error-checking/correction is complete. This is a continual ongoing process measured in milliseconds, and... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @calvinandhobbes The theory that jitter 'smears' the timing thus 'producing subtle distortion or loss of clarity' is not supported by the actuality of how the USB connection actually operates. S/PDIF connections, fiber or coax, operate under simi... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? I'm mid-design on a pair of 2 X 6.5" 2.5-way with a ribbon/AMT tweeter. I just got fascinated by the 2.5 way design, and the more I've dug into it, the more ingenious the 2.6 way design is. It's not a 20Hz 120dB bass monster, but rather a small to... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @retiredaudioguy. I am confident there are those who claim to here the differences between 568 A and B. Im equally confident they will hear differences between 568 A and 568A as in your first post. @oberoniaomnia Oooh, there you go getting all ... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @jea48 I depended on Fluke gear for years and even did some consulting on the original LanMeter. We even suggested "If it works, it's a Fluke" for an advertising slogan, but Marketing wasn't amused. I still think it was a lost opportunity. | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @richardbrand Switched Ethernet typically does not use CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) for its primary operation. While CSMA/CD is a fundamental part of Ethernet technology and was essential for early Ethernet ne... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. "I don't pretend to understand the science." Perhaps the understatement and flag banner of this century. Whatever differences people are hearing have nothing whatsoever to do with what happens at the transport layers. They are trying to.apply an... | |
| Do Audiophiles usually keep the gain of the digital source at around 80%? Y'all need to learn gainstaging. And if any of your gear has a bit-stripping digital volume control, take it out back and put it out of its misery. | |
| Adcom Amp Owners Rejoice! @mrdecibel . Nope. In the mid 1980s, Pass designed the well-reviewed Adcom GFA-555 amplifier. This was a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) based design. Nelson also designed the GFA-5XXX MOSFET-based series of high-bias class-AB amplifiers for Adc... | |
| Adcom Amp Owners Rejoice! I have 2 535s and a 545 in use in my theater. They are workhorses, and now, at 30+ years I have yet to experience any issues, just that good Nelson Pass-designed MOSFET sound. If and when they go, I'm not sure what I would turn to for replacements... | |
| Ground loop hum @jea48 You clearly understand what causes hum, now its a matter of where and how. You’re doing all the right things. That the hum is controlled by the volume control and only on the phono input narrows it down a lot. @kavakat1 One more variable ... | |
| Just got a new power amp 1) If your power amp has 6dB more gain that means you need to pad the input by 6dB or else you lose 6dB of s/n and dynamic range. That's gainstaging. Every pro is taught gainstaging pretty much from day one. Most audiophiles aren't pros, and have... |