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| Do expensive cables/wires REALLY make a difference Cable facts:When deciding on cables, don't trust your ears. A:B testing doesn't work. The cable that makes no difference is the best one. Buy the best one that you can afford. | |
| Speaker wire construction and sound quality If you have great front end components and great amps, you need great speaker cables to hear them properly. By great, I mean that they should reproduce the entire frequency spectrum with the least amount of distortion. The more expensive cable des... | |
| Why does Amps/Preamps forum have most threads? Hard to argue that the preamp is the most important component, when its functions are increasingly being assumed by front end components with volume controls, to say nothing of poweramps with volume controls. | |
| What is your preference, Records or CDs? I think the technology on both sides is now so good that other factors assume greater importance. | |
| What is your preference, Records or CDs? Mapman, interesting reading!I was referring to playback rather than mastering. The average analogue tape deck playback system has a dynamic range of about 60 dB. I'm not sure about mastertape and mastering equipment, but probably comparable.Given ... | |
| What is your preference, Records or CDs? Mapman, I agree with you- its a toss up case by case. But at this point there's nothing residing in the vinyl that can't also be conveyed in the digital. Having said that, I continue to enjoy vinyl.Some science: The dynamic range of analogue tape:... | |
| What is your preference, Records or CDs? Zd542, There's no doubt that CD in the 80's and some of the 90's couldn't compete with the best vinyl, but those days are over. I listened to a recent jazz CD on the ECM label last night, and the resolution and expansive lifelike soundstage could ... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass Amuseb, I've also spent time with Marten and TAD speakers, and I would regard those as audiophile speakers. The Hornings may not have quite the resolution, bandwidth, and flat frequency response of those others, but they are more than respectable ... | |
| Spectral DMA 400 initial impressions How much burn-in time have you given the amps? Are you sure they are fully broken-in?Just curious, what do you love about the Spectral sound compared to other amps? Are you using MIT cables? | |
| What is your preference, Records or CDs? In terms of sound quality, I don't think there is a clear winner. However, I think digital is a more accurate way of reproducing music. Analogue introduces some distortions and omits some information, and therefore may ultimately sound more musica... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass Amuseb, To answer your previous question: Alas they are in family room, and I am prohibited from using room treatments. So I can't claim to be enjoying audiophile sound, but then again these aren't really audiophile speakers. In the past I've used... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass I own the Eufrodites. They are in my living room (huge) powered by 10 watts of SET. With the preamp volume set to 11:00 the bass begins to overload the room.There are 8 sensitive bass drivers per side, which for the most part are rear-firing. They... | |
| Surge protection, have you tried? Lowrider57, I have Shunyata Research Cyclops to my amps, and Isoclean isolation transformers to the front end components. | |
| Elrod Statement Gold Owners Please I've been enjoying a pair of Statement Golds for a few years, feeding a pair of high current tube monoblocks. They have been plugged directly into the wall outlets, but recently I got curious to try a power conditioner between the Statement Golds ... | |
| Fremer lays an Ostrich egg... Great thread. Its refreshing to read a rare negative review, and MF should get credit for that. But as a reviewer he has a responsibility to try and get at the truth, quite apart from providing entertainment or supplying subjective opinions. I sus... |