tonywinga
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| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? The room doesn‘t have to look awful. Corner traps and diffusers come in some artistic looking designs. Balance is the key. Too much and the music will sound lifeless. Furniture also makes for good absorbers. And the room looks less lonely tha... | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? To say the room is not important is like saying the croissant is not important- its all about the butter. | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing If a recording is played back at a different SPL (Sound Pressure Level) than the original performance, is that not distortion? Yet, recordings do not come with liner notes that specify the playback volume. I tried to convince my wife years ago tha... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing Back in 1980 I was ready to buy some new speakers. My wife and I visited a few audio stores and I even took a couple of my own records to audition some speakers. I got down to two pairs that I liked and I wanted my wife's opinion. The salesman... | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? I agree with erik_squires. A frequency response chart made in an anechoic room has little to do with how that speaker will sound in your room with your amplifier. Besides, the impedance of the speaker is changing with frequency which will affec... | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? But I didn‘t know Wilson speakers existed until I heard a pair. I had no expectation bias but once I heard them I wanted a pair. It took me 27 years to finally work up the nerve to spend that much on a pair of speakers. And over that period of ... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing I picture some of these guys starving if they had to hunt for food to survive. The conversation in the woods would go something like this: “You only think you heard a deer because you wanted to hear a deer. I didn’t hear anything therefore, the... | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? “Positive waves Moriarity“. That‘s from Kelly‘s Heros- 1960s era WWII movie. Then the bridge they needed was destroyed. | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? The engineering rule of thumb I learned decades ago: Nobody believes the measurements except for the person that took them. Everybody believes the calculations except for the person who made them. | |
| No discussion about the Synergistic Pink fuse? carlsbad2, I know. The first rule of hifi fuses: You blow ‘em you’ve bought ‘em. When I get a chance, I’ll look to see if I still have one my blown fuses lying around. Destructive testing is my favorite., Btw- I didn’t hear a difference with ... | |
| No discussion about the Synergistic Pink fuse? I blew a couple of hifi fuses (ouch!) because I didn’t get slo blo. Rookie mistake. So I cut them apart to see what’s inside. It was a thin wire between two end caps. A piece of teflon tubing was shrouding the filament inside a ceramic tube. ... | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? I feel like I’m caught in the middle of something here. Maybe I’m biased but I like the sound of Wilson speakers over other brands. I confirmed that by listening to other brands. Therefore, I bought Wilson speakers. Would it not be illogical... | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? I can’t help but notice that most people’s babies are not that nice looking but when my boys were babies they were adorable. | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? I walk into a certain big box store with a special high end audio room named after a tree in my front yard, I see some big name audiophile gear with impressive looking drivers and amps with big blue meters. I’m in a large rectangular room lined w... | |
| Resolving Hum with Battery Back-up (EcoFlow) vs Power Conditioners: success vs failure The last thing you want to do is violate the NEC. The National Electrical Code is in place for our safety. You can add additional ground rods daisy chained together or replace an old ground rod. You might be allowed to add a secondary ground to ... |