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| PMC versus Wilson Audio I've heard the PMC MB2 SE's sound tremendously impressive at shows.A real combination of bowl-you-over dynamics, a big sound, with timbral realism. Especially from outside the room, it often sounded like a live jazz band, and sometimes even som... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2Again in order for you to be right, everyone else must be wrong. And I just explicitly said I’m not proposing that I have an answer "that I am right about" in regards to cable burn in. I just wrote that I DON’T claim to have that answer, so ... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? As to your second accusation, it sounds more like projection on your part, as it presupposes only you can be right. Now that's a straw man Yes you have indeed have created another strawman.Habits are hard to break I guess. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? In other words, nonoise, you like to drop in occasionally with a strawman. ;-)Yes, they are much more friendly to your own view, than actually dealing with the details of someone else's actual position. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2,Again, I believe you are missing a third alternative:I (or "we") don't know who is right.Say we want to know if it's raining outside, and we can not tell from the windowless room in which we sit. One method is to get up, open the front doo... | |
| Upgraditis? A lot of us completely understand your experience rvpiano. That’s why we are here. If everyone was simply satisfied with what they have and at the end of their journey, much of the conversation here would evaporate.It reminds me of a passage in a ... | |
| 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... |