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| Analog vs. digital segment on PBS The results stated at the end of the testing, 20 brief samples/group, if I remember correctly, were: Engineer group correct 55% of the time; Musician group correct 53% of the time -- just slightly above chance, 50%. These percentages seem difficul... | |
| Cables under the rug..... Thresholds can be easily removed, modified by routing space for some cable(s), and replaced; or a new threshold can be purchased, routed, etc. Any decent carpenter or many lumber yards could easily do this. Cables can be run around the perimeter o... | |
| Satellite vs. Cable I've had both Dish Network and DirectV. Friends have Comcast.1. Reliability -- Comcast has far more outages and problems than either satellite provider.2. Weather related outages/problems -- Both satellite providers deny this is much of an issue. ... | |
| Chesky Records & poor sevice, I also will never order directly from Chesky again. At the end of December, 2005, I responded to an e-mail offer from them with a free CD to be included if 2 or more were purchased. After 6 weeks, the CD's I had purchased arrived. E-mails and call... | |
| Richard Gray's 400 Pro = Emperor's New Clothes?? Albert,Thanks for the info. I will be investigating what is required of the power company. I assume that I will need some sort of power audit (from the contractor?)to document the brown outs and surges. | |
| Richard Gray's 400 Pro = Emperor's New Clothes?? Albert Porter's comments have piqued my interest on this complicated question, and I'd like to ask about how to help me figure out what to do about my power situation.I live in a quasi-rural area with a far lower population density than most subur... | |
| What? Cant hear the voices I looked at the pictures of your system and room. I wonder about the effects of all that glass behind the speakers. Might a curtain reduce some of the problematic reflections that the window likely introduces? | |
| Achieving Preamp nirvana with a SF Line 3? "... does not have a tube signature or SS but is vanishing."Buy some issues of Stereophile or Absolute Sound from the 1970's, or 1980's, or 1990's. "No signature" of its own (or something intended to mean this)appears again and again on many diffe... | |
| Heard a SOTA and I am pumped to get mine goin I also had the upgrade to the Nova series V. A good as it was,I was surprised to be told by SOTA that an upgraded PC on the pump/power supply would make an audible difference. So, I had gotten a PC here on auction that wasn't quite as good as I wo... | |
| What are we listening for during break in? So you have an expensive or "new to you" cable added to your system. You have the option to return it within a given time period. Do you just put it in, give an immediate listen or so and decide? Or, might you defer the listening briefly to follow... | |
| What are we listening for during break in? Timrhu,The # of LP sides, like 143, was a hypothetical, not the # of times I repeatedly played one side of an LP, which would, as you imply wear it (and me) out. One point I was making had to do with the utter futility of trying to listen for chan... | |
| What are we listening for during break in? There are two issues here, and they are being conflated.1. Do cables require break-in? This is unlikely to be resolved for more than a few who have not yet formed an opinion. Lots of sincerity, mixed with disbelief, bombast and outright belligeren... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Sadly, anyone who views looking at methodological issues as quibbling does not understand that methodology is at the heart of science. Boring, tedious, surely, but a necessary condition to call something science. Your question, "Why in the world w... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? I’ve gone over this debate and would like to summarize many of the points made.As to DBT there may be:1. Problems with methodology, per se, in audio;2. Problems with most DBT that has been done, e.g., lack of random assignment or no control groups... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? "We can't measure sound and make predictions about how it will sound to you, because how it will sound to you depends on too many factors besides the actual sound." This is what I have been saying in addition to less than favorable comments about ... |