steakster
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| Affordable Grounding @bolong Good reference. ‘Signal ground’ vs ‘Earth ground’ – aka Chassis ground – aka Safety ground. Signal ground originates within the component itself. Earth ground is a safety configuration for the household circuitry. Regarding audio... | |
| dCS Bartok Apex vs McIntosh DA2 - Trouble Hearing the Difference Beautiful room and system! It looks as if the speakers are set-up for HT. Optimizing speaker placement for 2 channel is an entirely different ballgame. Very WAF and interior design unfriendly. Take a look at assorted Virtual Systems. Also, high-en... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? serblinfan OP . . . I only regret selling Furutech DPS 4.1, which added some warmth that I loved ’Warmth’ can be manipulated in various ways. If a system is fatiguing and has distortion, then warmth becomes a band-aid. Especially, if the ro... | |
| Determining wire phase @jea48 👍 Thx! | |
| AudioQuest Pegasus vs Thunderbird Interconnects @jg7884 My suggestions would be to take your time and stay within your budget. A 30 day trial period is a wonderful thing. Or the ability to re-sell an item near what you paid for it - if it doesn’t sound right in your system. I've tried plenty o... | |
| AudioQuest Pegasus vs Thunderbird Interconnects @jg7884 Congratulations on your willingness to try - and your subsequent reward. When I first joined AudiogoN, I thought posts about cables affecting the SQ were absurd. Now, over 50% of the cost of my system in invested in cabling and power co... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? @jhnnrrs Dude. Get a grip. It’s a nasty mess when a flat-earther’s head explodes. It's Haz-Mat time. | |
| Do your ears deceive you? These engineers would disagree with the OP. _ _ _ _ _ Bybee Technologies – Founded by Jack Bybee – Physicist Jack Bybee's did research in cable/circuit design for military use. Bybee’s first commercial products emerged from Cold War-era mil... | |
| Power Regenerator or Conditioner for Digital Sources No hum, buzz nothing total blackness. All good. What about distortion? When a vocalist belts out a note in fortissimo, is there any harshness or edginess? Do the high notes on a piano ring unnaturally? Does the brass section sound tinny or ful... | |
| Power cable for Ferrum Hypsos The @jasonbourne71 Corollary of Electrical Theory: If he wasn’t taught it, if he doesn’t understand it, if he doesn’t believe it – then it doesn’t exist. /s | |
| Shocked. Need Opinions. How muck power do I need? In some ways, a high performance amplifier is like a high performance race car. It needs to accelerate instantly and then stop on a dime - without swerving off the track. Transient response* is an important factor in amplifier design. In audio, ... | |
| why expensive streamers @nigeltheflash If noise wasn’t a thing and jitter wasn’t a thing, all streamers would sound the same. Unless I’ve missed something, and I’m sure someone will be along shortly to politely enlighten me if so... As you wish . . . @blisshifi elo... | |
| Which does a better job of grounding your system Entreq products or Shunyata Altaira ? garebear . . . as grounding your system can make an audible difference in many systems. +1 I’ve been experimenting with different grounding approaches for a long time. In my experience, it didn’t pay off until the power to my system was total... | |
| Looking for a line conditioner To push the envelope: one type of conditioner can be used for source components - another type for amps. One conditioner can be used for analog - another for digital. Digital is known for regurgitating noise back into the system circuitry. Several... | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? @mahler123 . . . I would just comment that if your system is so fine tuned that changes in digital cables can sound very significant, then I congratulate you on the excellence of your gear Thank you! 🙏 IMHO, the excellence is in assembling a... |