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| The Law of Accelerating Returns I would call it law of accelerated potential... which may, or may not be fulfilled. At the very beginning of my audio journey I heard the two most expensive systems of the time. On being a B&W Nautilus with eight (!) solid state award-winning... | |
| Cassette decks. How good can it get? I never had the chance to play around with high-end Naks, but have had the BX300/150 as company for several decades now. My mentor told me that the cheaper Naks sound quite like the big ones, however the big ones can record much better. Also, whil... | |
| Speakers for string Quartets I have two friends who are professional classical musicians, playing in orchestras (one being the Philadelphia Orchestra), and both have Vandersteens, and love them. I also have an older series 2 Vandersteen. They have beautiful tonality fitting ... | |
| Will I benefit from a subwoofer with 20Hz speakers? I will play the devils advocate here. While adding a sub has the potential to add LF quantity and / or quality, it will invariably take away from the signal strength going to your main amp / speakers. That is, you need to make compromises at the l... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing Aural memory is the result of a learning process, and an ability that we can develop just as any other cognitive function. Improving it is the same as learning a new skill. When there is effort put in, it can be vastly improved upon, and converse... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing When not handled properly, obsession with A/B tests is just as any another obsession turned into compulsion: harmful and self-sustaining. It ultimately stems from 1., lack of self confidence 2., lack of experience, 3., trust issues. With these is... | |
| Electric cars will ruin late night listening? Electric car charging is a stable current demand. I am much more worried about LED lights, with their SMPS injecting horrendous noise. As neighborhoods are converting to unsing LEDs, the daytime listening has progressively declined, and even late ... | |
| Tweaks, money pit or real value? Tweaks work well when they are used as tweaks. They are literally the icing on the cake, and for that approach to work (the icing to do its job), you need a darn good cake for starters. Icing will not do any good to an inedible cake... That is: P... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? The biggest step forward was the improvement in the crossover parts quality. Mainly massive leaps in capacitor technology are responsible for most of the sonic improvements we hear over 20 years ago. Basically, take a top speaker from 20 yrs ago, ... | |
| How to make small room sound bigger The only trick to make room acoustically bigger is to open the door & the windows, and that allows longer wavelengths to form, and pushes the Schroeder frequency lower. | |
| Paul Klipsch was right - What the world needs is a good 5 watt amplifier This is such a bizarre phenomenon that some refuse to look at any aspect of sound other than peak SPL capability. This is most likely the result of decades of TAS and Strereophile culture where the reviewers set the "highest standard" by gear that... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Indeed, the age old problem of who to believe: 1., Those who have vested interest must by definition be spreading distorted information so we buy their products. 2., Those who have no vested interest are amateurs so they have no idea what they a... | |
| Will you hear the most beautiful music... @curiousjim The Wagyu-equivalent pork: it's the mangalica pork. The Spanish Serrano ham is made from mangalica. The Mangalica breed originated from the bakonyi breed, which was a Hungarian breed that was exported to England up to the XVIIth cent... | |
| Damping Factor Basically all high damping factor (DF) tells is that the amplifier has very similar voltage output into an 8 ohms resistive load and into a a no-load (aka infinite resistance load). There are loads of conjectures on how a very high DF affects sou... | |
| No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio @moofoo Yes, it's my YT channel. I'm glad you found my posts useful! Cheers, Janos |