pauly
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| Power cord choice? A good quality isolation transformer feeding sn audiophile grade power conditioner is the best you can ever do. Not even close. The average Li battery with full sine wave inverter will blow any isolation transformer - power conditioner out the wat... | |
| so this is my system whats next Regular furniture is not the same as a properly designed audio racks. I had terrible sibilance on my system and I changed DACs, transports, cables etc. Nothing worked. Not until I took my transport off the coffee table and put it on a good audio r... | |
| Power cord choice? Power cords are really pretty simple.They are filters. If you can't hear any difference between power cords, you either are 1) blessed with pristine power, due principally to your location in the world, or 2) are cursed with some component(s) i... | |
| POWER CABLE FEATURES I just used quality "computer" cords and that was enough.It may have been enough, but they sure as (add your favorite expletive) wasn’t quality.My advice would be to only buy one cable and put it on your power amplifier. Spend the money you budget... | |
| Power cord choice? Your amp and/or power conditioners are designed to take the raw power, filter it, clean it, do all the other magic and then send the signal to your speakers.Ok, firstly amplification has no “magic”. IOW, Gandalf plays no role here.A power supply j... | |
| so this is my system whats next Next is moving. Your best next upgrade would be a dedicated sound room. Yeah I know, that’s possibly/probably not an option. I’m in the same boat.Other than that I would suggest some specialist audio furniture perhaps? I had a quick peek at your s... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? @pauly - speakers generate internal vibrations from their drivers moving and push vibrations to the floor vibrating everything.I’m waiting for you to tell me we use our ears to hear and our eyes to see next. That is why you want to isolate them an... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. I’d prefer it if he took a bunch of his equally progressive friends with him and then disappeared. | |
| Fear of volume control @snsYou touch on a very interesting topic. Any complex (multiple frequency) sound, whether it be conversation, music or birds chirping outside; a change the decibel level results in a change of content of the sound we hear. In short a song at 81db... | |
| Surge protector or power conditioner? I have been looking at a surge protector/power conditioner, specifically the Furman elite 15pfi or 15dmi. Very good value-for-money choice. I don’t feel as though I need a “power conditioner” because I don’t notice any emi in my system. You w... | |
| Fear of volume control A unit called a phon is used to describe human hearing numerically. When phon curves are displayed on a decibel - frequency graph, the curve is ’U" shaped. The higher the decibel level the more the phon curve flattens out.At very low volume levels... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? Given speakers are a source of vibration, what do folks think they are isolating their speakers from when they try and isolate their them? The other speaker?Speakers sound best when they are firmly grounded to a solid base i.e. not isolated from t... | |
| Distortion There is virtually no correlation between % THD and what passes for "good sound". Simple listening tests show this very clearly.Some folks have a real hard time with this and will do their level headed best to convince themselves, and everybody el... | |
| Just wondering about speaker cables No harm in trying. I suspect the probability that the sound will be worse than before is higher than the sound being better, but you'll never know if you don't try right?Hook em up and let us know what your findings are. | |
| Audiophile Vacations PuLeez, We are not talking about looking at Audio stores in Africa when on Safari or in the African bush. I missed the part we’re you excluded Africa in your original post.You won't find any good audio stores outside of Joburg or Nairobi.Weird, I’... |