shadorne
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| Does 'Accuracy' Matter or exist ? What measurements are you aware of that provide indisputable standards for accuracy? Frequency ResponseHarmonic DistortionSignal/NoiseWaterfall Plot Group DelayPhaseImpulse ResponseOn and Off Axis Frequency ResponseJitter TestsIntermodulation Dis... | |
| Does 'Accuracy' Matter or exist ? Of course accuracy both matters and exists.It can be measured as well as heard.Although most here clearly prefer the added colorations that come with the setup they have. Perhaps difference matters more than accuracy - above all people here want a... | |
| Old vs. New It just shows how gullible we all are. Only sometimes new is better. | |
| When does the law diminishing returns kick in? I'd say it kicks in as soon as your girlfriend becomes your wife. | |
| Monster Cable You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. | |
| Monster Cable The lesson in the story about Monster Cable is that audio cables is 99% Marketing and 1% vigorous protection of trade marks/packaging and other aesthetic features, as well as plenty of specious technical claims.Sadly there is no actual "technology... | |
| ATC Passive Speakers & McIntosh The general advice for SCM20 would be at least 100 watts into 8 ohms. You are wise to be concerned and if you like to listen at realistic levels then you will probably be disappointed. | |
| XLR and RCA interconnects in the same system? It is simply semantics - my definition of "high end" is gear that reproduces what is on the recorded media as accurately as possible with the least possible distortion from extraneous factors such as cabling.Those who invest in setups that magnify... | |
| XLR and RCA interconnects in the same system? The comment that a cheap balanced connection (using cheap wires) for the balanced interconnect is good?That is hogwash.If you have poorly designed, poorly built and/or mismatched audio equipment the I agree.Some people just don't get it - with we... | |
| Looking for "Last" 2 channel speaker system. Agreed. ATC 100 or ELP 150 should be on your shortlist for sure. | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Since the discussion revolves around dynamics. I'll just mention that the Sheffield Labs Drum Track XRCD is a good way to compare speakers for dynamics. Horns or no horns it takes considerable engineering/technology to play these drum tracks clean... | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers Is it more difficult for an amp to drive,say, two 6.5" woofers than one 8" ? Given similar individual impedance and the woofers are in parallel then yes. This is one of the sad realities of multi-woofer designs - they look cool though and smaller... | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers Eniac,World class woofers have 4" diameter short voice coils in a long magnetic gap. Most 7 inch woofers have a 1 1/2" diameter long voice coil in a short gap (i.e. plenty of distortion). Great woofers start at around 12 inch and some are as much ... | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers Agree with Johnk - it is entirely WAF cosmetic, cost and footprint driven.There is NOTHING true about the MYTH "can provide very fast and accurate bass response"Most of these woofers use voice coils that are no bigger than a tweeter!!!!!There is a... | |
| Hearing Damage over 20khz? but there are subharmonics generated below these supersonic frequencies that translate into harmonic information and/or spatial cues in the range that we DO hear.Subharmonics in a bell is called music.Subharmonics from an audio system is simply u... |