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| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? cleeds,What I do think is odd is that those who clamor for others to pursue measurements or blind testing seem so reluctant to undertake the work themselves.Like who?I defend the validity of blind testing, and I have performed a number of blind te... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2I think in order to make a valid discussion, ones have to agree on some basic level which is our ears can identify differences in what we here. If you say that all differences are psychological then there is no point to further the discussio... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? again, I just want to hear one fact-based argument for “burning-in” speaker cables.Join the club.Don't let it keep you from dinner waiting for an answer though ;-) | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? No idea. I’m only dropping in because, although I’ve heard horn designs here and there over the years, I wish I had more experience with them. (My room set up has never favored horns, though).Just for clarity: what exactly do you consider to cons... | |
| Thiel Owners Good post andy!I don't feel competent to assess the exact contributions of phase/time coherence to what I hear with the Thiels. And speaker designers (and experts on acoustics from what I can tell) still seem to disagree.I can only note that my T... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? So true cd318.For instance, as many know speakers like the Revel brand have been designed using the research spearheaded by the great Floyd Tool and others, in which a scientific approach to studying listener perception and speaker design, combine... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? fleschler,Forgive me because I'm sure you've mentioned the speakers you own before but...which ones do you own now?(A couple speakers off the top of my head that do particularly well over a wide listening area would be: Audio Physic, Joseph Audio) | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Sure thing! I'm afraid the results will be behind a paywall, geoff. You'll have to sell a few more pebbles to afford it ;-) | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318,I’m fascinated by the diversity of designs and opinions among speaker designers and audiophiles as well!It seems to me there are a lot of variables going on here.First is that both designers and audiophiles come to audio with differing crite... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? As you can see gawdbless: lots of anecdotes coming your way, but not much in the way of objective, measured evidence showing differences between "burned in" cables and new cables. | |
| For those of us over 60.. Oh man, I’m only 54 and all this seems completely beyond my time old-guy stuff ;-)Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Moody Blues....*shudder*....Not long ago I tried watching some Grateful Dead concerts on line, just to see what the fuss was about. I... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Do cables need burn in?Depends on your standards of evidence.If audiophile anecdote is good enough for you, then yes they "need" burn in.But by this same standard of evidence you'll find people who say everything needs burn in, and every tweak wor... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? sciencecop,So if cheap parts, No evidence from you the parts selection reduced resolution in the Harbeth speaker.none pistonic jello cones, Assertion, with no evidence, while there is evidence against your assertion. "Jello" cones would hardly pro... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? sciencecop,How about 47%, would that be better ;) Sure. If you can actually support that claim.Which you haven’t.Today, you can have a pistonic cone that will be well damped and will outperform anything Harbeth’s cone material is doing. So you cla... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? sciencecop,You are being evasive, not "educational" which suggests "education" isn’t your actual motivation in responding to my posts.Of course, nothing in what I’ve posted abandons "real science." That’s just a flip remark to try to make yourself... |