terry9
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| Grado Epoch 3 I agree about SUT's, BUT only with a few phono stages. I made up boxes for Sowter (superb value) and Lundahl silver / amorphous core (extreme performance) transformers and was very happy until I tried direct amplification. The Lundahl's were ALMOS... | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Mr. Prentice wrote, "I found that carefully chosen component at each level sounds better than the last… so a $80K system will sound very significantly better than a $40K system and not nearly as good as a $160K." I bolded the contentious part. Pe... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp If you have any DIY skills, consider these. I made half a dozen of them - and still use two of them in my HT, running Magnepan MMW. Clear, musical sound and dirt cheap. The better the parts, the better they sound. https://sound-au.com/tcaas/jlhes... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? If you trust my memory!! | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? @simonmoon Sorry, it was told to me by an anthropologist when I was a grad student, IIRC. So no reference. | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? Thanks @macg19 . Glad it was useful to someone. | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? Very difficult, unless you finesse the problem by tying your measurement to a known physical measure such as time. An anthropologist set up a boom box in a jungle and invited some villagers to come and listen. When he played Mozart, they wept. Wh... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? By definition, a phenomenon is measured whenever numbers are attached to manifestations of that phenomenon. Unfortunately, that process is amongst the most intellectually difficult enterprises known to man. The trouble is, everyone thinks he can ... | |
| Bass only when I stand up… I had the same issue, but solved it with 2 auxiliary bass panels, DWM from Magnepan. YMMV | |
| Cleaning audio components with 90% isopropyl alcohol No plastic parts, no epoxy, no finish, just for starters. | |
| Cleaning audio components with 90% isopropyl alcohol One of the audio greats, Jonas Miller, who ran the ultra high end Jonas Miller Stereo in Beverley Hills, told me to NEVER use denatured alcohol, because there are many ways to denature alcohol. He pointed out that there is only one way to make hi... | |
| Help me upgrade my beginner system! I suggest that you listen to some planar speakers. If you like the sound, there’s no going back. | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had Sadly, John, Vishay VAR can dissipate a maximum of 0.4W of heat. A speaker resistor is often rated at 10 W or more. So Vishay VAR could only work in a large and expensive array, and then you would still need another conductor. As for obtaining th... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had @jhnnrrs Well John, you’re not wholly wrong, I’ll give you that. Void the warrantee, true. The rest, not so much. You have heard of wire wound resistors, perhaps? That’s "hokey nichrome wire", or some variant thereof. Guess you’d better tell Mill... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had Before you buy, get a schematic of your speaker. Some speakers, especially ESL's, have a resistor in series with the input. Solution: make up you own speaker cables with that specified resistance, and remove the resistor in the speaker. If you hav... |