shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Think twice before concluding some thing sounds better Don’t know about others but I spend a lot of time analyzing TV. I have had big disappointments with TVs when I got them home. I don’t trust at all what I see in a well lit store playing demo material suited to the TVs capability. LCD flat screens ... | |
| I heard the $4000 Focal Utopia Headphones yesterday Don't know if they are worth a try at $4000 but I have a pair of Shure SE846 IEM for $1500 and I have never heard anything even remotely as good in an IEM. These IEM sound very close to the very best open back cans I have heard and have incredibl... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? "Cables that measure the same sound different". You state this as if it were fact but it is merely an anecdotal claim. Unfortunately your claim is not enough to cause curriculum changes globally in Universities. If you can provide verification or ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Geoffkait,I think frame11 was quoting the audio critic and the statement is entirely correct from an engineering design perspective. Go to any reputable University and study electrical engineering or physics and the professors and text books will ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? So Doug Sax of Mastering Lab fame used ordinary wire???? This is blasphemy. | |
| TAD Reference loudspeakers-How good are they? @melbguy1 Agreed, I also apologize to the OP for my part in making this TAD thread about how fantastic Magico is or isn't. | |
| Wilson Audio Haters Erik,Heavy advertising is true for most of the big names in hi-fi gear - Wilson is just normal. Very few companies refuse to advertise (ATC for example). For sure if you don’t advertise in magazines then you will not be reviewed as often and sales... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters +1 gpgr4blu | |
| TAD Reference loudspeakers-How good are they? @melbguy1 I see 3db compression from the tweeter in Chart B on the measurements link I provided above. I stated that for a low build cost speaker this is not unusual - so no big deal. I was just explaining what this would sound like versus a high ... | |
| Just wondering... Not better just different. A good 1K DAC can be world class.You are right wth your example of speakers - after going far up in price eventually it is more about cosmetics and prestige. My speakers have have a beautiful burl magnolia veneer hand bu... | |
| Ferrofluid tweeter Pretty much all dome tweeters use ferrofluid. In addition to above points by timlub, it also helps align the voice coil. Small voice coils in a tweeter are susceptible to rocking motion.Ferrofluid is a cheap solution to building a tweeter that wil... | |
| Dumb question #643: should speaker cables last a lifetime? Like your car needs a regular oil change - speakers cables pick up all kinds of crap and gunk as well as carbon build up from the power amplifier - best to change cables every six months. | |
| Do you think my cable length setup will have much effect or may hear the difference? None. | |
| TAD Reference loudspeakers-How good are they? @melbguy1I was was referring to these rather embarrassing set of measurements for a SOTA mega-buck speaker. (See horrendous deviation from linearity above 2KHz - this kind of distortion is common in low cost speakers and is usually extremely audib... | |
| My vintage JBLs vs new B&W, PMC etc. Vintage speakers can be extremely good. Especially ones that look crap but are built from great components. Don't believe all the marketing hype! A lot of the latest and greatest is not an improvement but cheap stuff in a shiny box that only looks... |