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| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics Off topic posts here replicate the all too common general off topic meandering of most human conversation. At least with social media you don't get the interruption and finishing of your own sentences with someone else's thoughts. | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics I've seen arguments about cables since Monster introduced the first so called 'audiophile' cables. These arguments will likely go on until there is some kind of agreed upon evaluation of the efficacy of cables and/or any particular cable. In that ... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope So much for scientific rigor. My last post's questions as to cable naysayers cable purchasing decisions was not meant to be rhetorical. So it seems the objectivist cable purchases are actually subjective choices, based on whatever? They don't in f... | |
| Contact Dennis Had? Based on above responses seems Dennis has tired of high involvement with audio. His new Inspire line is low key, sort of cottage industry product. He obviously sold his baby, Cary in order to get away from all the hassles involved with high end au... | |
| Channel Imbalance Mystery May be tube related or not. It may also be a recording issue, I hear many early stereo and some mono recordings have left of center bias. Sometimes this is intended bias created by engineers/producers, other times poor remastering and or duplicati... | |
| What process do you use to purchase cables? You need to finalize your amp purchase first. Listen with present cables, determine what you don't like as to sound quality, purchase new cable based on that knowledge. Cables are final purchase when building system. | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Beauty in eye of beholder. I recall a thread somewhere here where someone claims they can or could have these plinths made from scratch for pennies on the dollar compared to OM. | |
| Upgraded from Parasound Halo Integrated to Modwright KWA 100 SE I'll add vote of confidence for Modwright products. | |
| What process do you use to purchase cables? Many suggestions above good. I used the lending library at the Cable Company years ago when first attempting to ascertain impact of all cables in system. You could buy and sell, but lending library least hassle and likely least expenditure. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope I'm wondering how the objectivists came to make their purchasing decisions? Did you do double blind tests on cables you purchased, or was it a subjective decision?I've seen very few double blind tests in regard to cables or audio equipment over ma... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @vinylguy2016Do you believe you could hear difference between $3 cheapo aluminum conductor, tin plated connector cable and your $50 cable in double blind test? And did you in fact conduct such a test? Assuming you did and $50 cable came out ahead,... | |
| LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ? It appears Psvane has new Acme 300B tube out, looks like punched plate vs solid plate for other Acme, priced about $200 more than original Acme. Can't find much info out there about this tube, anyone heard it or have more info?@liquidsound, any fu... | |
| Power conditioner some say yes and some say no. I absolutely hear softening of transients on my 845SET amp with power conditioners, including my BPT 3.5 Signature, a balanced isolation transformer based pc. Further upgraded with Oyaide R1 ac receptacles and Mundorf filtering caps. This most not... | |
| Experience with HFTs I use a few in conjunction with other room treatments. After much experimentation I've settled on six being optimum for my room. I use three on each side of room, perhaps five feet behind listening chair, spread out evenly from top to bottom. I've... | |
| Most harsh/shrill sounding speakers (vintage) The Klipsch horns everyone hates are the K 401 metal mid horn, they are horrendous. How do I know, I have circa 1989 Klipschorn, had that horn stock. Thing rings like a bell, tried damping, got damped sound, gave up on that horn real quick. You've... |