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| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? @Georgehifi - great link, thank you. The comments below the video from Paul and others are worth reading too. | |
| Advice for upgrading my system You didn’t mention your cables, did you? You got silver interconnects and high end digital cables and power cords? For a great system, it fulfills the gears’ potential. Darwin cables for example for ICs… David Laboga for digital… PM me for deta... | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? I have no analog action to compare my digital to, but each step in my dac journey has brought me closer to 3D real-deal stage and pure color that I imagine good analog brings. Qutest with Pardo power supply, then Holo May L2, then Wells Audio Cip... | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? @atmasphere if amps are not losing harmonic information wholesale, are the other components and cables generally more prone to losing it? Or is my worry about lost harmonics not necessary, and distortion the main culprit through the chain? | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? @pedrob - thanks for the advice. I've always been curious what an extra grounding system would do, for instance. And some shielding plugs has also been recommended. I like that idea too. | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? @kennyc - hah! | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? Donald Trump is (was) the best tweeter, by far. Like your precious plasma, lots of pure hot air… | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? @kennyc - my point isn’t that measurements trump listening, it’s that the measurements we generally rely on, like THD, are so basic and uninformative. While less distortion is better, wouldn’t it be great to see a measurement of harmonic richness... | |
| Do You Ever Find Yourself Unable to Listen To Your System? Sometimes you have to force yourself to get back in there. Force yourself to put some music on some night soon. Face whatever comes up for you sitting in that listening seat… | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? A very strong SNR of 120dB is almost certainly beyond audible range, but could be important for the fragile harmonics. I’m sure there are people here who know this scientifically. | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? I mean, signal to noise ratio would seem to be the most relevant stat in common usage, right? | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? If we can’t measure the musical information lost throughout the chain, the measurements we do have about what gets added in terms of distortion are a smokescreen. If you lose 25%, but add negligible distortion, you pretty much still suck. Right? | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? But in a long chain of gear, it would be amazing to know what's getting lost where. At least with the final step, comparing speakers to headphones is one option. | |
| I’m also worried about how much of the harmonics in the music is LOST by the amp? While it's easy to measure THD, is it even theoretically possible to measure loss of harmonic information? | |
| Vintage vs New Today’s best is tomorrow’s vintage. It sounds good today, take care of it and it’ll sound good tomorrow. Today’s worst is also tomorrow’s vntage, so you can’t generalize very well. Good is still good even if it’s not THE BEST! (He says as he ja... |