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| Power cords - a BASIC question Wow, no nay-sayers yet. Fritz, after playing with designing power cords, it seems that good power cords need to have decent guage, good purity of conductor, good dialectric, shielding and a geometry that provides common mode rejection. The effect ... | |
| Hanging Audio Rack? I tried it and found some beneficial effects for resolution, but essentially whatever you use to suspend the rack ends up affecting the sound significantly - a bit like the twanging of a guitar string it depends on the stretchiness, rigidity and t... | |
| Cable "burning": Real or VooDoo ??? Absolutely Albert - if I boogie better by painting my cables red or my CDs green then I ought to be able to say so here. Good point Detlof, but what appears to happen with these debates is the repetitive tyranny by a few who insist on double blind... | |
| cd players with volume control I do agree Sutts, that the Capitole is very nice indeed. But with the diminishing returns that sets in so rapidly with CD players, I heartily recommend the Resolution Audio CD50 and CD55, and that you spend the difference elsewhere. | |
| Cable "burning": Real or VooDoo ??? I would love to comment, but I am restricted by my own commitment to myself and others here to just say RHUBARB. But perhaps I am allowed to comment on the wine tasting analogy. I have participated in blind tasting tests of wine and they served to... | |
| Replacing Jumpers = Bi-wiring?? As has been stated, the benefits of bi-wiring are system dependent and dependent on how you do it (internal or shotgun). With many speakers bi-wiring is beneficial. But I think the worst idea of all is shotgunning. I reckon getting a better cable ... | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Frogman, you did a much better job than I did getting this topic going. On those cold winter nights the combination of a good malt and good music forms a combined magic that is obviously shared by others here. This thread is intriguing because I a... | |
| Plinius SA-250 or Mark Levinson/Krell/Mc The Plinius SA-250 is an amp built to do a particular job, that is drive and flesh out a difficult speaker. For example the Plinius sounds just wonderful in combination with the big Thiel speakers. But I have also heard the Plinius SA-100 beat the... | |
| Toslink vs. Coaxial Hasaw. Optical done properly will outperform coaxial, but doing optical properly is very expensive and rarely available in home audio. Toslink (as opposed to AT&T or Single Mode) is cheap stuff and is way short of what coaxial can achieve. The... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List I think the market has moved on from where it was in the 80s. I think it is more prepared to be sold on a new technology because it is simply the next step. The whole PC thing changed this. If I feel compelled to invest in a new piece of exciting ... | |
| Attention Scientists, Engineers and Na-s RHUBARB! | |
| Speaker wire - equal length or shortest? I have heard a demonstration of the OCOS which seemed to support the claim. But you need to like the sound of the OCOS. If you like it you will call it fast. If you don't like it you will call it lean and perhaps a tad metallic. I have no doubt th... | |
| Speaker Placement JD, I think it is indeed possible to have too much female body in certain circumstances, but like you, if I read you right, I don't like to be short-changed either.Pops, I often do it the other way around (that downunder thing), in that I often st... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List I reckon the evolution of source components is likely to be broader than is suggested here. I believe the plum that the likes of Sony, Microsoft etc are after is the open standards set-top box - the network computer in the home that will be as ubi... | |
| Speaker wire - equal length or shortest? I agree with Albert. It is less important to have the interconnects the same length (but desirable if they are), but definitely, different speaker cable lengths is quite audible and irritating over time. |