steakster
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| 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... | |
| must you play music to break in tubes +1 @glennewdick & @larryi If they are true NOS tubes, crackling is not uncommon. Take each tube out. Give it a decent tap. I give noisy NOS tubes a few hard flicks with my fingernail. Re-install. If the crackling persists after 20 minutes or... | |
| Synergestic Research: SCAM db2sub1 I tried different locations of the Synergistic router and its antenna; tried angling them to other positions, to no avail . . . SR’s router doesn’t have antennae. It doesn’t have WiFi. - - - - A technical note excepted from SR’s r... | |
| Power cable Advice... @ghdprentice Yes, great trip isn’t it. Good memories. Spectacular in every way! Many long hikes into the side canyons to some very exotic locales. Flipped in Lava Falls - and got stuck in an underwater eddy. A good test to see how long I coul... | |
| Power cable Advice... derekw_hawaii If you have bad water passing thru rusty municipal pipes which is treated in the last 5 feet of your under sink filter system, is this going to improve your health? During the two week rafting trip down the Colorado River - throu... | |
| To loom or not to loom? Many cables - signal & power - have been auditioned in my system over the years. I wasn’t convinced that a full loom was better. That was then. Now, I’ve transitioned to a full loom of signal cabling by Synergistic Research - Atmosphere Serie... |