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| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. OP: Congratulations! Glad to hear that the years-long mystery is solved. Yes, everything matters! As per the photos in your virtual system, the coffee table has a very reflective surface - not only for light waves - but also for sound waves. Chan... | |
| Isolation systems Many variables. What type of flooring, acoustical room treatments, how loud, etc. The Townshend podiums made a significant improvement under my speakers with a suspended floor. Hard to predict the results for a rack. I use after-market footers und... | |
| Synergistic Research tuning bullets compatiblity The answer is it depends. SX bullets made 2024 vs pre-2024. (See note below) I am currently using pre-2024 SX active black bullets with my Element Copper power cord. The original versions of the active gray and black bullets have a smooth cylinde... | |
| Who Gets Left Out? The subwoofer. | |
| Electrostatics and tubes Amplifiers: Voltage vs Current Speakers: Voltage vs Current | |
| Electrostatics and tubes Electrostats are typically 91-92dB efficient, so you don’t need a ton of power. ’Typically’ is not a term that should be used for electrostats. They’re all different. The important specification to look for is the impedance curve - not the db ... | |
| Is There Some Problem With Shunyata's Everest Power Conditioner moto_man OP There was a very noticeable improvement over the week that I found to be unmistakable. It’s called burn-in. I always thought that was inexplicable BS. It’s explicable. | |
| Speakers on top of subwoofer The Wilson Audio speaker cabinets are designed to be mounted. The Harbeth isn’t. - - - Excepted from this article. Wilson Audio has long put much stock in the composite materials they make their cabinets from. X-Material, the primary material .... | |
| 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... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? fleschler It is apparent that keeping RF/EMI in power cables away from equipment and from equipment infecting ICs and speaker cables is very important. +1 This is my experience with RF/EMI. No waveform monitors needed. My ears were sufficient.... | |
| 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... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? serblinfan OP I was only wondering if an expensive cable can actually make things worse in my system. In my experience, the answer is yes. It can make the SQ worse. A quality cable reveals whatever the system is producing. If the power is dir... | |
| 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... |