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| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Prof was incarcerated for fighting the conspiracy.When you erect a monument in memory of my valorous fight, please get the likeness right - I look like a cross between prime era Clint Eastwood and Brad Pitt, if that helps ;-) | |
| PMC versus Wilson Audio usherzalegI don't know. I've only heard the PMC MB2 SE, and that was at audio shows. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? geoffkait: One can’t help wondering why in the world anyone would pursue this issue so strenuously, so verbosely, so relentlessly. ..........I’m serious. What drives these people? What a waste of time.Says the guy with 11,776 posts ;-)Many of them... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom,Heidegger! Yikes, a tough read!Yes, I love digging down in to assumptions, axioms. It's become a reflexive habit for me when proposing any claim or argument that I first check myself for special pleading and consistency, seeing as far as I ... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? andy2,Prof,There have been a lot of measurements been made. It’s called our "ears" and the data has been recorded by countless of listeners all over the world. Unless you call them all liars or you say our ears are not valid instruments.That is a ... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? taras22,Prof: " Do we just accept that any hypothesis can be floated, and then decided by appeal to subjective impressions? "taras22: Uhhhh, no. Then, your solution to the problems I posed is...?But throwing around claims gleaned from the applicat... | |
| Thiel Owners tom,I like my 02s so much I’ve been considering having them re-finished (their old finish is a bit blah, faded, and doesn’t match our room at all).I don’t know if it would be possible to actually have a veneer of another wood placed over them, or ... | |
| What you can say about lowbass and midbass perfomance for high end loudspeakers ? erik,IOW, I agree with the approach, but the explanation is an urban legend which hides a series of more complicated issues. Wait! Are you saying the explanations audiophiles often believe on intuition are often inaccurate?Say it ain't so ;-) | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Besides, it’s not like burning in cables is a product or anything give me a break! LOL. The very link you are referring to as "puffing" is promoting just such a product:"However, the best solution is to treat your cables using a designated cable b... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? taras22,So what is your answer to the dilemma posed by the claims in high end audio?Do we just accept that any hypothesis can be floated, and then decided by appeal to subjective impressions?If so, that puts high end audio on par with Mesmerism, a... | |
| Thiel Owners tom,I sure enjoy reading your posts about the Thiel backstory.And...I would hope for a memory like yours at 70. (Actually, I'd hope for a memory like that at my age, 54, and I don't have it!) | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,If you come across model O1s or O2s, the back panel will say Thiel - manufactured by Conceptions Electronics. I just checked my pair of 02s and it looks like Thiel outsourced to more than one manufacturer. Mine say on the back, manufactu... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,If you come across model O1s or O2s, the back panel will say Thiel - manufactured by Conceptions Electronics. I just checked my Thiel 02s. Looks like Thiel outsourced to more than one company as mine (in Canada) say Manufactured by:Heinl... | |
| How about a list of speakers that are time and phase coherent? Thiels and what else? No longer in business but:Dunlavy Audio LabsMeadowlark Audio (Actually they are now back in business but I'm not sure they are still doing time/phase coherent speakers).Quad ESL 63s I believe are time/phase coherent, I seem to remember. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2Ha, as a bit of a philosophy nerd, yes Hume is one of my favorites!*nerd hat on*Yes, best to assume most people are telling the truth - which is justified inductively (most of the time people tell the truth), by the principle of parsimony (p... |