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| Apple TV vs Wadia 170i? I just wish Apple would make a really cool audiophile class component out of stainless steel or aluminum that had a huge terabyte size hard drive and coax and optical outs. I have been experimenting with wireless access from my mac mini to a LaCi... | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? Yes, on this site they actually discuss music without hidden agendas to sell hardware Perhaps that might be because Audiogon is primarily a website devoted to reviews and discussions about gear, share with others your setup, buying and selling of... | |
| Suckout at 40 hertz...less pricey solutions? Agree with Ojgalli - your only viable option is to get a subwoofer and position it a little way forward into the room and then EQ it with notch filters so it does not add to the speakers peaks.You need an enormous amount of acoustic treatments or ... | |
| B&W 801 vs 803s Are some reviewers on the take out there. Yes, reviewers are looking for favors. Yes - one should be well aware that reviewers get demo or discounts (at cost) for some review equipment which they can then use and then sell used, sometimes for a s... | |
| So, What is the Verdict on the Beatles Box Sets? Those spectrograms look to be fully modulated, not compressed. If you've even seen one of a compressed file, it's unmistakeable. Yes and No. Depending on how hard you look.Unfortunately, there are several forms of "limiting" used in compression."... | |
| So, What is the Verdict on the Beatles Box Sets? Tomcy6,While it ain't as bad as the kind of compressed crap that Butch Vig puts out - it ain't pretty...The article tries to imply it judicious compression but you know ...a euphemism is a euphemism. | |
| xlr vs rca As long as you and yours are beating the "it measures better so it must sound better" drum and I and mine are only concerned about what really matters, which is how it actually does sound, then there is really nothing to discuss. No worries I get... | |
| Best Used Speaker Under $4,000 w/ Respectable Lows the choices are infinate. I disagree...choices are way beyond infinity | |
| xlr vs rca Traditional measurements illustrate how machines hear, not how humans hear. Yes this is a good point. We may be discussing from incompatible and quite different perspectives/objectives. My perspecitive is audio reproduction with high accuracy. Mo... | |
| xlr vs rca In order to affect a ground loop whatever is doing it has to change the potential of the ground. How does a power supply do that?Through parasitic leakage through capacitors and through transformers.FWIW: There are plenty of examples where XLR has... | |
| xlr vs rca Try the Whitlock paper directed at students - Page 9 and 10. Although as the saying goes - you can lead a horse to water but... | |
| xlr vs rca Perhaps I was not clear in the last post.....a BIG BEEFY power supply means less fluctuations due too the varying demand from dynamic music and therefore less ground loops from leakage to ground from the PS => less noise induced into the low le... | |
| xlr vs rca Ive found its very often advantageous to float the ground at one end of the signal path. Agreed that is often the first thing to try out....it stops the microamp ground loop currents flowing between the various chassis as well as still groundin... | |
| xlr vs rca No hum, no ground loops and I am biamping. Ground loops do not always show up as hum with volume turned way up with no music playing (of course really bad ground loops do). The insidious kind is when a power supply leakage affects ground on a dev... | |
| xlr vs rca With the large amount of excellent SE gear it is hard to argue that balanced is inherently better in a home environment even though those that make it and use it would disagree. SE gear is cheaper so it must be better - the savings can be used to... |