roadcykler
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| Speaker Efficiency @jayctoy "Mark the 8w will not work on 88db on loud volume.." A speaker with that efficiency will play at 88 dB with ONE watt. How loud do you think it would be with 5-6 watts? What? I can't hear you over the extremely loud music!. | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? A very commonly held fallacy that something more expensive is better and it's not always the case. In the stereo world, it's riddled with expectation bias and having something more expensive is expected to sound better but products from places lik... | |
| Maybe the Journey is Over?........Well...... It's always fun and exciting to get new stuff but until a person decides that enough is enough, "upgrading"will continue. I've found that initially not reading anything about whatever hobbies you're into is helpful and then slowly transition back ... | |
| Which Would You Choose? This thread is a great example of people either not reading or reading but not caring and provide their input even if it's ridiculous and not helpful. I'd sooner ask my deaf neighbor for his opinion than some of you people. | |
| The Hidden Gem at Capital Audio Fest (CAF) 2023! I’m not an engineer, but I can tell you the Black I’ve tube amp was said to be rated at 18wpc and drove them to more than adequate levels without strain. I really wish more people understood what speaker efficiency actually means. They see num... | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge estimated longevity of various stylus shapes: Spherical / Conical - 150hrs Elliptical - 250hrs Shibata/Line contact - 400hrs SAS/MicroRidge - 500hrs The rest of the story you missed or forgot, This is not to say that at 500 hrs a SA... | |
| As An Experiment I Stuck A Few Things Under My Pre-Amp And Am Now On A Quest Please tell me this thread is a spoof. Is it April 1st already? | |
| Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds Why do people conflate the heat of an amp to it's "sound signature?" Tube people do it all the time and it seems some class A people do too. Utterly baffling. | |
| Power Cables - Third Party or OEM Doesn't matter. Until electrons become sentient, wire is wire. | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system Funny that some think having an EQ isn't "audiophile" or that it adds something unnecessary to the audio chain but they're happy to use mono blocks and a pre-amp instead of an integrated or receiver. But I suppose those aren't "audiophile" either. | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. For most people in this hobby, it's definitely the latter. | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? No, I don't believe they do "break-in," What I do believe is people becoming accustomed to the speaker's sound. But lots of people also believe cables can be broken in, so there's that. 🙄 | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? I like how it you don't have a system that is supposedly highly resolving, you probably won't notice differences with new cables. "Highly resolving"being code for, "really expensive." | |
| A "Downgrade" that proved to be a spectacular "Upgrade" ------- As others have mentioned, cost does not equal sound quality (unless you review things for income or not understand expectation bias when you buy a more expensive item, then it always does). | |
| LessLoss C-Marc Entropic Speaker Cable They really should change the "entropic" part of the name because entropy isn't a good thing. Someone didn't do their homework. |