randy-11
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| Planar speaker placement kalali is right - the dipole design reduces side radiation - tho I assume diffraction helps quite a bit on the close side walls or a co. like ARC would not use it when testingthe book by J Smith is just a rehash of obvious principles that have bee... | |
| interconnects vs speaker cables vs power cords - which make the biggest difference? if a manf. went to a lot of trouble to design a high cost component then it makes perfect sense that they would eff up the sound with a crummy cheap power cable, .... right??? | |
| interconnects vs speaker cables vs power cords - which make the biggest difference? it is notable advice from a guy who sells cablesif a double blind test shows significant differences from interconnects then somebody really effed up the design of your componentsif a double blind test shows significant improvements from speaker c... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? he's right -- dragging a rock across bumpy plastic is not ideal tho a LOT of R&D has gone into it and made it much better than when it startedworse, the rock degrades the plastic every timea well-recorded CD sounds better and can be replayed m... | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? the bass could only seem weak if the amp runs out of power - and that is less likely when bi-ampingmonoblocks & bi-amping both are expensive as pointed out above - you need more transformers for the power supplyone driver, one amp is the ultim... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? the best vinyl has phlogiston in it | |
| Planar speaker placement yes, in the Audio Research video the speakers are very close to the side walls - but they have diffractors all over them | |
| Older DAC connection to my Macbook?? there are convertors - Berkley has a nice one for $2,000why not use the Toslink output from your macbook?you may be thinking it has only a mini-jack but check it out | |
| Older DAC connection to my Macbook?? what inputs does the Esoteric DAC have? | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? I see a KEF in your future...The very best design would be to put a DAC in the speaker with the amp, and just send control signals to it.not sure the realization is quite there yet | |
| Older DAC connection to my Macbook?? toslink?wifi with an Apple TV? | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? I and an audiophile friend realized vinyl was not better when we did direct testing vs. well-recorded CDs.vinyl is often better than poorly recorded CDs such as the first few years of most releases when CDs made their debutYou will realize vinyl i... | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? the main effect is that each amp will drive a smaller load, so the incidence of clipping is reducedfor a manf., the amp can be tuned to the needs for each type of driver | |
| Jazz for aficionados A lot of jazz was pioneered near brackish water | |
| LaScalla "horn" sound compared to "maggie" sound if horns, then first watt |