westcoastaudiophile
Responses from westcoastaudiophile
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @fleschler thanks for your “story”, your “sales" skills are outstanding! on other hand I am still not getting answer on my question, what manufacturer’s measurement of original cable is missing, and what measurement “improved” cable exceeds on? | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @fleschler please help me to understand what are you trying to say! is it about cables not measured / disclosed / faulty? Topic: "Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why?" Post: "My neighbor and friend ... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @fleschler you have good point! I know some important performance metrics are not disclosed because companies are too greedy, competition, standards are not consistent or detailed, third party test LABs are getting the best - tuned samples, for qu... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @amir_asr "their performance shot up through the roof” because “xyz" roof is too low? | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @amir_asr "They make very rudimentary measurements often using obsolete audio analyzers” Dear, your APx555 with -117dB NF is outdated to measure my -124dB NF DAC :-), not talking here about RFI/EMI noise polluted environment. nice try though! | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @mglik "What is the “World’s Best Cartridge?” - "best" does not exist! :-) There are good carts, fancy ones, to impress, professional-robust, and tuned for specific vinyl, etc. "cartridge and a speaker, by far, contribute the most to SQ.” SQ st... | |
| Cartridge recommendations try to find Audio Technica AT-ML170 or AT-ML180 used in good condition. I have tried (too) many AT carts, including 160ML, 150MLX, AT24, ART7, ART9, and recently found as ML170 beats most, and does sound very transparent and “airy”. I run ML170 a... | |
| What’s Voodoo power cords signature sounding? @carlsbad +1 the best post on the topic! would be cool to see posts on "blind test" results from ppl who "can hear power cables". | |
| Power Cables - Stock vs. Budget "to maximize my system's potential " good luck! | |
| Power Cables - Stock vs. Budget "Considering upgrading my stock power cords" is there any specific problem, you’ve identified, with stock cables? | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? "If you bought your gear at WalMart” - you can get good-n-bad gears everywhere these days. nice and therefore expensive cables are just “nice”, not necessarily improving anything technically. I upgraded cables to make my whole system to be elegan... | |
| Accuphase dac 60 "In my opinion, AKM is sonically superior to ESS" agreed 100%, the best DAC I have is dual AK4499EQ design with class A discrete bal/unbal outputs | |
| Upgrading @jemmer01 what was the length of your speaker cables? also, what pre/amp/spkrs do you have? | |
| New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement +1 @mijostyn with unlimited product price target I can design power module for pre/amp/etc to take care of all possible AC power supply issues affecting SQ | |
| Phono stage options - balanced with XLR both input and output... Teac PE-505 |