redkiwi
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| Marble or Granite shelfs in a hifi rack? Albert, I did not like the Neuance on an aluminium rack either. I have played with aluminium racks with only a little success, finding that if you have a concrete slab floor, either an aluminium rack, or a steel rack filled with fine sand were pos... | |
| Choice of Wire for Dedicated Line Jeffcott. I have found that if you use stock PCs then when you put a dedicated line in, that you will hear an improvement in dynamics and soundstage size, but you will find the sound can be brighter and with a coarser grain. Systems that sounded a... | |
| Marble or Granite shelfs in a hifi rack? Here is what I believe.In theory the best shelf will achieve two, mutually exclusive things. First that it is light and rigid. Second that it is damped. Light and rigid is vital to ensure vibration energy is dissipated quickly. If you use a heavy ... | |
| Choice of Wire for Dedicated Line I agree with Lak and Rcrump. Having dedicated lines of around 30A (for the 230V supply here) appears from my experience to be all that is required in the wall - OFC etc makes no discernable difference. Using 5 to 10 feet of good power cord seems t... | |
| MDF for walls in music listening room The best room I ever heard simply used 8 by 2s instead of 4 by 2s, and with half the spacing, then used double thickness of drywall, and obviously treated the drywall. I suspect the amount of MDF you would need would be very expensive compared to ... | |
| Are there any absolute truths??? #3. The biggest challenge in this hobby is avoiding addiction to the 'hit' that you get from upgrades, that distract from the pursuit of musical enjoyment. | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction The reason why I leap into these discussions about burn in is that I believe that failing to allow for burn in is the cause of so many bad mistakes by audiophiles. The problem is if we cannot even agree that burn in exists then we will not agree t... | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction That's totally cool Spluta, and pleased to make your acquaintance. There is no bias against engineers that I can see, just a bias against those with closed minds that always assume posts here that don't match their knowledge must be the ravings of... | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction That's totally cool Spluta, and pleased to make your acquaintance. There is no bias against engineers that I can see, just a bias against those with closed minds that always assume posts here that don't match their knowledge must be the ravings of... | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction Thanks Paul - I was definitely reaching with that 'freak' comment, I forgot there were so many of you good guy freaks out there, till I came back to Audiogon, even if you cannot hear the sound change with new components. I secretly envy you - I ha... | |
| Are silver coated cables a bunch of hype? Hi Trelja - seems you are like an old buddy after I have been away from these forumns for so long. You may be right about the Teflon thing, but the thing I read was definitely talking about using silver purely to avoid corrosion of the copper due ... | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction Now I'm really confused. I just skim-read Splutas posts and didn't find anything obvious that I even disagreed with let alone contradicted in my post. You are going to have to help me here Spluta. | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction Spluta, you clearly take yourself very seriously - you mistake me for someone that was responding to your post - I was not. I am at a loss to know which of my words were directed at you, because I cannot remember reading your post(s). Nothing you ... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Aren't sex songs about getting it and love songs about not (yet) getting it? Or am I just a sociopath? | |
| Out on the tiles...with speaker spikes. Being crazy I have tried a lot of different stuff under speakers and racks on my tiled floor at my beach house. I found wood pucks to be hopeless, most metals to be problemmatic, but brass to be best of the bunch. Even tried various exoticly expen... |