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| BEST Digital Cable I don't think we have seen you around for a while Chucky. Good to see ya mate! I like the Kimber Select KS2020 - whatever. Detail resolution is very fine (D60 sounds unacceptably smeared in comparison) and bass power is considerable. No doubt ther... | |
| One more BI-WIRE question I have experienced speakers that sound better bi-wired and speakers that sound better single-wired. I would go with the designer's preference and agree with Sagger re simplifying the connections. By the way it is really quite difficult to compare ... | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? Waldhorner, I hesitate to make this seem even more wacky to you, but if you take a "burnt-in" cable out of a system and coil it up for a period and then put it back in the system it will go through the burn-in process again, albeit more mildly. I ... | |
| Impress Your Friends and Seduce Women! Presumably not with Dogface's woman. | |
| How come a power cable changes the sound? Sorry, I have been in the islands again and the internet is not so good there. The philosophy I have developed (through trial and error) is probably still very flawed - but is I think different from yours Waldhorner. But as with any other philosop... | |
| How come a power cable changes the sound? Apologies Waldhorner. I am getting really tired and testy of the "I cannot hear it, so you must be deluded" brigade, that demand scientific proof from a chat forum. We have had a barage of this negativism in recent weeks and I have stupidly (whoop... | |
| Impress Your Friends and Seduce Women! Onhwy61 - I don't think I disagree with anything you said. One thing I have learned is to NEVER buy any gear that is not neutral or is dynamically constrained - if you ever do, you quickly tire of it and can be sent on an expensive and futile ques... | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? Waldhorner, your existentialism does not make an argument - it could be applied to argue all stereos sound the same and we are just deluded in believing otherwise. I just figure if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - t... | |
| How come a power cable changes the sound? The truly stupid questions tend to have that effect. | |
| Impress Your Friends and Seduce Women! The more you are an audiophile, the less understood you will be. The general public has been educated that the difference between a cheap stereo and an expensive stereo is how powerful (or loud) it is. If you are still on the power kick then I sus... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Now you have got me Kthomas - I don't know, and have not done much work on it since I cannot change how DACs work. I have only got so far as observing how transmission interfaces are subject to jitter and how jitter results in harmonic distortion.... | |
| Cartridge for Well Tempered Sanity is relative. The Dynavector DV XX1 works very well in the original arm, which was a bit zippy in the mids and the DV XX1 tamed it - it is a high output moving coil, but on the deranged side of affordability. | |
| Tube upgrades for SF Line Preamp It would be nice to hear if there are other sources than Kevin at Upscale since he refuses to sell Amperex 7308 tubes to those of us not resident in the USA. Does anyone know of another source? | |
| How come a power cable changes the sound? Dtf, does it not occur to you that there could be something else relevant to the effect of a power cable than just its resistance? If you have tried various power cords and not heard any difference then say so - but insulting people that do hear a... | |
| Voltage Conversion You may not be confident to do this, or you may have already tried, but if you haven't, open the unit up and look about. Sometimes the change is so blindingly obvious there is nothing to be concerned about - like a big switch saying 115V on one si... |