squared80
Responses from squared80
| Upscale Audio is up front with customers Newflash: A/V stores that try to sell you power cords, esp. at $5000, are not "really up front and honest." They are part of the snake oil scum that's destroying this hobby. Educate yourself before falling victim to BS marketing, and those who per... | |
| AC Power Anyone who says you need to do anything with your power (upgrade power cords, power conditioning, etc.) to change or improve your sound is lying, or ignorant. It's as simple as that. | |
| Fine tuning the system. Where do you start and how do you proceed ? Don't change power cables because doing so well do NOTHING to the sound. It's fake news. And if you've got 12AWG OFC cables, no amount of money can but any cables that will ever sound better, or different. Again, it's all marketing. All of it. Any... | |
| WHICH POWER CONDITIONER IS BETTER PASSIVE OR ACTIVE WITH ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS Power conditioning will not help sound. If anything, it'll be a limiter to your speaker cables. | |
| I’m considering upgrading my speakers internal wiring You're playing a fool's game. Put the snake oil down and start working with science and objective facts. Your expensive cables have not improved your sound at all. At. All. Changing out internal wires will also do nothing. Shame on people here w... | |
| What's the weakest link in my stereo set up? I live in a townhome, so limited on space. Ignore any of these people recommending something as ridiculous as upgraded cables and power cords. Back here in reality, where science triumphs over snake oil marketing, I think you should start by looking at your room acoustics before buying an... | |
| Power cables and power conditioners Your power cords don't affect sound. At all. Scientific fact. | |
| physiology and psychology of hearing If you tell yourself a more expensive power cord, lifts, or some boutique speaker cables are going to change the sound, you've built in a bias where you think it DOES sound different. But it doesn't. Not one bit. And you've spent a lot of money fo... | |
| HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH TO SPEND ON A SYSTEM? IF YOU GET THE SOUND DOES IT MATTER? Odd premise for a post. Get what sounds good to you. But at a certain point price has absolutely to do with it. | |
| A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks "And I realize that there are those that don’t believe in either" It's not about believing. There are those who use objective facts, and those who use subjective opinions supported by any number of biases, realized or not. Those in the latter gro... | |
| Which inexpensive speaker cables... Anyone here who tells you their expensive designer cables are wrong and ignore the science of sound. Don't by the snake oil. The only problem with coat hangers is they're not very pliable. Go getGet ANY cheap OFC at the gauge that matches your... | |
| A cable too perfect? Newsflash: the cables didn't sound any different. At all. You created a bias and you're brain told you you heard something different. But you didn't. Enjoy. | |
| BS meter is pegged! These are the same people who claim expensive cables sound different and better than coat hangers. They don't. Snake oil marketing, and people buy it. Willful ignorance. | |
| Warm, flexible, cheap-ish cables? Stay away from the snake oil. All you need is OFC, 12 AWG or whatever you need for the length of your run. You could also use coat hangers and you wouldn't webbed know the difference. Like I said, use science, not snake oil. | |
| Warm, flexible, cheap-ish cables? Warm? Cables don't change sounds. Get plain old OFC at a gauge that supports the length of the run (I always use 12 AWG which is honestly overkill). Heck, you could literally use a collar hanger and not notice the difference. |