rodman99999
Responses from rodman99999
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? Whenever imaging or soundstage are mentioned, I like to remind people about these resources: The following provide tests, with which one may determine whether their system actually images, or reproduces a soundstage, as recorded. ie: On the Chesky... | |
| Can moving wire location at circuit breaker reduce hum? A lot of pro (instrument) amps have phase-reverse switches, to deal with hum issues, on stage. Those suggestions on the outlet wiring tester, to me, would be a good/basic place to start. Hots of all outlets in the room, on the sam... | |
| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? "...the quality is entirely dependent on the quality of the potentiometer, not on the motor whose only job is to twist the shaft just as your hand would also do." Plus one! | |
| Sharing my experience with cables Dunning-Kruger X OCD = NAYSAYER | |
| Cable curmudgeon @teo_audio - WELL PUT! | |
| How does cable construction affect sonic character? Make that: perturbations (oops), AS IF that'll be the objection! | |
| How does cable construction affect sonic character? @hilde45 - Back in March a thread about power cords and break/burn-in was started. I hate to type, so: I'm going to copy/paste some of my speculations. That a highly complex musical signal, MIGHT affect Poynting vectors and signa... | |
| Warm Tube Amp(s) to Tame Hyper-Accurate Speakers? @alphonsodamato - What tubes are you using in your 275 (small signal and power) and preamp? How much absorptive material in the room? Lots of hard surfaces, between you and the speakers? Is your music strident, with all sou... | |
| Cable curmudgeon @bruce19 - B.) I am not aware of cables being overly significant in other mission critical electronics such as in the medical field or aeronautics or telecommunications. There is a justification in all of these areas for a well built, properly s... | |
| Cable curmudgeon @bruce19 - Personally I am open to persuasion on the issue but am leaning to being skeptical for the following reasons, A.) cables get much less attention on the pro side whether it is the recording studio or the electric musician. OK the... | |
| Cable curmudgeon What persuaded me to audition Big Silver Oval speaker cables: https://analysis.plus/a-tribute-to-mark-markel/ | |
| Cable curmudgeon Anything at all for their war effort... for the ill thought out and anti-intelligence, anti-thinking, anti-invention and anti-’upward, forward’ crew. They’ll do anything to press their opinions and incapacitates upon all others, out of FOMO on t... | |
| Cable curmudgeon SO MANY variables and: life's SO SHORT! Happy listening! | |
| I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged. @jjss49- +ONE! reminds me back in my corporate world days, some blowhards in meetings never cease talking, as if the sound of their own voice is the only music they like to hear when they... | |
| Disadvantages of buying old solid state. +1 on electrolytic replacement. It’s unfortunate, but: some of the older values and/or dimensions can be hard to locate, unless the amp manufacturer stocks them. With the way some amps are ... |