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| The Disappearing Act The Disappearing Act Your audio question reminds me of another artform. In filmmaking, the goal is ’suspension of disbelief’. To be so engrossed in the storytelling that the audience disregards that they’re sitting in a movie theater. The e... | |
| Is there a vacuum tube summary poster similar to this grape varietal summary Tube SQ will vary with different circuit designs. No graphic illustrations, but the following is informative. - - - - Joe’s Tube Lore The Tube Museum Brent Jesse At Upscale Audio, Kevin Deal describes the SQ of various tubes - such as this v... | |
| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? Re: Wave Theory. This video is very informative. It’s worthwhile to watch the whole thing. How Electricity Actually Works. | |
| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? Over 50%.* This includes cables, power conditioning, power supplies, distribution blocks, grounding, etc. They’re all intrinsically linked.** They’re all part of the transmission. IMHO, it was worth every penny. My very modest system can run wit... | |
| Front Row Seat Power Cord? @richardbrand You are relatively new to the AudiogoN discussion forums. You’ll discover that flat-earthers, cable-deniers and naysayers are quite adamant that they are right - and everybody else is wrong. Why they keep reading the cable threads is... | |
| Optimize or buy new gear..? Optimize or buy new gear..? I’ve spent considerably more than 50% of the cost of my system on optimizing via better quality cabling, power supplies, power conditioning, grounding, etc. The SQ has improved enormously over time. I’m very satis... | |
| Line Magnetic 218a vs Leben CS600 -- am I insane? (aka when good beats great) +1 @mesch Synergy! Much more meaningful than measurements. | |
| Front Row Seat Power Cord? 27 Best Audiophile Power Cables | |
| The rat’s nest of cabling. Large transformers in components. My discovery. All of us with tinnitus don’t have to worry about EMI or other noise in our gear. Hmmm. I’ve had tinnitus since 1978, when I got a long flight with a bad cold. It’s only gotten worse.since then. I can still hear subtle changes. Perhaps, it de... | |
| System assessment... A familiar audio reference is a good thing. Go to a piano store - or a rehearsal hall. While someone is playing a grand piano, listen at different distances, 5-50 feet. Then listen to a recent grand piano recording on your system. Determine if the... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands Let me toss out the Magnus Audio MP-1000 preamp. Magnus Audio is the solid state division of Canary Audio - highly respected for their tube gear. I own a Magnus Class A SS amp. - - - - I am looking for clarity, dynamics and a good sense of spac... | |
| Melco N10/2 DC power cable Over the years, I’ve experimented with many DC power cables (aka umbilical cords). They can definitely make a significant difference in SQ if your system is revealing. I tossed out most of the cheap DC power cables that came with my DC power supp... | |
| Acoustic Zen MC2 110 ohm? Update & Correction: In a previous post (now deleted), I remarked that the SQ was very similar when I connected my AES/EBU digital cable (3 pin) from the 110 ohm output on my DDC to the 75 ohm S/PDIF (2 pin) on my DAC – whether using a simple... | |
| Single ended = large images? OP: I read your post about staying the course for now - with some tube-rolling. Just wish to toss out another possibility. The imagery in my system tightened-up noticeably when I implemented a grounding system. I use the Synergistic Research tech... | |
| Wilson Sasha 1 vs Sasha 2.... What songs best convey tweeter differences? My Wilson Audio CUBS have the 1" inverted titanium-coated tweeters. When I first got them, they sounded: "hot" "tiresome" "shrilly".* They were revealing what my system was producing. The cause was dirty power - that injected noise into the electr... |