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| AES/EBU cable shootout @ghasley You presuppose I have not, and that is an error. I will be happy to test any cabling beyond what I have done, just as soon as someone can provide a plausible explanation for how a digital cable can impact analog sound quality. The cable, ... | |
| AES/EBU cable shootout @ghdprentice I was Principal Architect for a Fortune 10 company for 10 years before I retired after a career in IT. System resilience and availability were my responsibility. Whatever was built and went into production was either my architecture, ... | |
| AES/EBU cable shootout @ghdprentice I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how the last 1 or 2 meters in the digital communications chain can make a "huge difference" and the previous one or two thousand miles doesn't make any difference. Digital is not analog. ... | |
| Compact Floor-standing Speaker Recommendations under $4k ProAcs and Spendors are great within their capabilities, but they're pretty spendy for a 6-7" 2-driver tower, which in turn is pretty limited dynamically - only so much a single 6" woofer can do, both in the low bass and upper mids. My plug for Mo... | |
| AES/EBU cable shootout @rudyb Anyone who thinks their cables make better zeros and ones is unfamiliar or disingenuous about the nature of digital communications. Cables live at Layer One of the model, so copper, fiber, radio are all interchangeable. Errors in digital co... | |
| Speaker Recommendations: Corner Placement Omnidirectional speakers will certainly give you an even dispersion of ... reflected sound, but very little of the direct sound that is required for clarity and definition. Your room has moved from the typical stereo listening space of maybe 2000... | |
| Help me upgrade my beginner system! From about 60Hz up, your speakers will more than hold their own with just about anything. But your subwoofer is an entry level unit. I would look at a REL or a pair of SVS 3000s. As for your cartridge, the stylus may be pristine, but at 50 years o... | |
| Songs with excellent advice? Steve Goodman 'The Loving of the Game' | |
| Speaker upgrade for Primaluna EVO 300 - Looking to find some audio nirvana bliss! Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G. Stereophile Class A rated - and if you listen to them you'll understand why. The combination of effortless clarity, dynamics, range and soundstage are hard to find in a single speaker, let alone one that costs only $34... | |
| CD Read Errors--Rare? Music is encoded on a CD in digital form as a stream of binary digits or bits. A typical CD may have as many as a million errors. Here's the best and relatively non-technical explanation of why that's not a problem: https://www.irishtimes.com/ne... | |
| Help with hiss Hiss is random noise generated by active electronic components. It is not induced nor due to grounding issues like a 60Hz hum. Nor is it impacted by cables, AC power or external electrical components. Are you familiar with ’gain staging’? Basicall... | |
| Starting from scratch in a large room Lots of interesting answers.unfortunately none of them are grounded in the physical reality of your room. It is easily 3X to 5X the volume most HiFi speakers are intended for. Your placement limitations are exactly that, but there are speakers tha... | |
| Starting from scratch and say $5000 Your budget means doing some serious value - oriented shopping. And that means finding a decent Preamp/DAC/Power Amp + 2 sets of interconnects combination with a reasonable WAF for under $3K. Tough shopping there. So I'd look at integrated amps: ... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Tonality - Human Voice. Male or female, It shouldn't sound tubby, chesty, cupped, or nasal, Emmy Lou Harris Eva Cassidy, Aaron Neville, Mark Knopfler (His voice turns to mud on a lot of systems) Dynamics - A big symphony, Beethoven's 9th is the f... | |
| Best musician in the world? There are a lot of incredible musicians, so many that picking the best would seem a fool's errand. Of the many so far mentioned, I do see two missing names: first, Les Paul (and Mary Ford). Not only did he essentially invent the modern electric gu... |