shadorne
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| Cable Burn-In Question Interconnect & Speaker Danlib1,Fair enough. It is true that there are some examples where science gets it badly wrong and later "scientific wisdom" is retracted. Perhaps audio cables will be one of these examples. | |
| Advice on how to get FedEx to pay up on damage As a rule, 10% of the item's value spent on shipping is your best insurance. I agree fully with this statement!Extremely expensive items are best packaged in protective boxes and then wooden crated such that they cannot be lifted or moved by indi... | |
| Cable Burn-In Question Interconnect & Speaker With the known fact that Audio Cables (Interconnect & Speaker) benefit greatly from the Burn-In process The vast majority of electrical engineers and scientists would dispute this statement. There is no process that has been documented that w... | |
| What are the best monitor speakers for classical? If you like Telarc label for classical music then perhaps you might consider to add what they use for loudspeakers to your audition list.Try a google on "telarc loudspeakers" and see what you get. | |
| Seas Millennium Break-in time 200 hours with drifting response? Is that what Seas claim in their specifications? You may want to reconsider as a lack of stability is not really a good attribute in audio products. Most are designed for consistency and good stability under vario... | |
| musical drummers...who are they ??? I am always on the hunt for new great drummers, as rhythm has such a profound effect on my enjoyment of music. Well I found one.Keith Harris. He is not famous enough to be in drum roll yet but I suspect he is well on his way to becoming one of the... | |
| do blind tests have any practical significance In medicine and in science in general the ONLY kind of test considered reliable is a double-blind test. Should listening tests of audio equipment be different? Perhaps it should because the "data" is completely subjective. But this means that the... | |
| Anyone ever hear Meyer Sound X-10 speakers? Meyer are experts at sound reinforcement (i.e. very very loud). I have never heard these but Angel Studios has a 5.1 set installed in one of their three studios...I'd bet they blow the socks off almost anything else! Better not to have neighbors! LOL | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? and by driving the input harder the gain following can be less, so that one bit AT THE SPEAKER is a smaller voltage.I notice much greater improvement by this adjustment of gains than with ceramic outlet covers I don't question that you hear an im... | |
| earthquake subs Assuming there is no room acoustics problems then perhaps the Totem Ones, although great speakers, are just too small and not dynamic enough...I suspect they are in compression long before the two 15" subs would. This means it will be hard to get ... | |
| Stockfisch Records If only reviewers started to publish "compression" or "loudness" ratings as part of a CD reviews.See this article Loud CD'sand thisHow To Make Better RecordingsThese articles give insight into why many people are finding CD's to be very fatiguing ... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Shadorne...How many bits you need depends on the size of the bits I think you will find that the quantization levels in D to A and A to D converters are fixed.16-bit A/D conversion has 2^16 discrete numbers, or 65,536 quantization levels in the f... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Eldartford, I noticed that the input signal level, displayed by a string of LEDs, never got even half way up, meaning that only the lower bits of the A/D were being used.Now I am utilizing all the bits I paid for. In my subjective opinion, it soun... | |
| Stockfisch Records With a large band it is more difficult to notice a bad recording. I am not sure I agree but I do admit that the Sara K album from Stockfisch is beautifully recorded...In fact there are some small labels that do record some good stuff....Steve Fer... | |
| Why does Kimber use two wires for ground Normally an RCA connector has a central wire (positive) and a shield (Ground).An RCA shield most often consists of either a foil wrap or many wires braided together.In the case you are referring to, I suspect that the braiding of three wires toget... |