sokogear
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| True or False? The more revealing a system is, the more likely you will be able to hear any change when listening closely. The magnitude of the change and its positivity is subject to interpretation and exaggeration.I have tried changes to internal vibration and... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? Can we please just put this discussion to bed? Obviously there is some benefit to blind testing, which takes some effort to set up properly, but it is not the be all and end all, especially for the situations where a test is not possible. | |
| Do you have ways to ease use of vinyl? @arcticdeath - the company is Integrity HIFi, but this is sold only through dealers. Usually, you can order through a dealer and Integrity will drop ship it to you. I would call them to make sure you order the right size. They might know of a deal... | |
| Do you have ways to ease use of vinyl? @articdeath - get yourself a Tru Lift as I mentioned above. No more worries about late night listening and falling asleep.Turntable will still spin, but at least your stylus won't touch the record and wear out prematurely. There's cheaper options ... | |
| Do you have ways to ease use of vinyl? @mijostyn - I’ve never had any issues with the Tru lift other than forgetting to reset it after it lifts the arm from a record before I put another record on. Of course then it restricts the arm from moving and makes it skip. It happened once in a... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @elapid Nice generalization- audiophiles are not reasonable men.....how can you lump us all together when we disagree on many things very often - that is the purpose of meaningful discussion. Audiophiles are passionate about listening to the best ... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? Please look back at PS Audio's video near the top of the discussion. It is right on the money. Now, some things are not easy to compare, like certain tweaks, acoustic treatments, etc., and correcting the volume for different outputs of components ... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @darkstar - yes this will be perfect for you if you have a chauffeur and have him/her drive you around and you sit with a blindfold the whole time. Of course this will help only if you never intend to drive the car....only ride in it. | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? Paul at PS Aduio's video posted above is right on the money. Keep everything the same, blind folded A vs. B for a minute or as long as you need to get a feel for it and then play the same thing on the B option. If you can't hear a difference, then... | |
| Do you have ways to ease use of vinyl? Best tonearm lifter is the Tru-Lift from Integrity Hifi in Canada. Smooth as butter and built great. They are super nice, and are glad to talk to you, but only sell through dealers. They basically configure it with stainless steel discs to make th... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @fleschler No time to get to know any album. I am more like @mahgister than you, but not to that extent. I don’t know how many hundreds of times I’ve listened to “Kind of Blue” or”Aja” or dozens of others and noticed new things sometimes, especial... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @fleschler Sorry for the mistake - I multiplied by seconds instead of minutes and didn't see the word POTENTIALLY, but you are making my point even more clearly. If you listen to 15 LPs a week, that's 780 per year or about 5% of your inventory, ev... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @fleschler Good that you are keeping track of the majority of your records. My brother in law probably has 1500-2000 records and ends up buying the same record twice (not to get a better pressing, usually the same one). He also doesn't dust them ... | |
| members and their systems I didn't say all $100K+ systems owners are like that @jss49, (I know @millercarbon looks at every possible component and tweak and @mikelavigne is about as committed as anyone in looking at all his options) ) I'm thinking of the proliferation of t... | |
| members and their systems I am amazed at the number of people I hear about on this site that have $100K invested in their current system (not including losses taken on past gear traded in) and how many are just counting one system that they use and not multiple components ... |