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| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. "- samples of wines are assessed by a reviewer" yeah, samples provided by winery! LOL Product manufactured in volumes has variation between units of the same kind, also some modifications made during production time. | |
| Using digital 75/50 ohm cables for analog 75 characteristic impedance cable is better due to lower capacitance. Lower Er (dielectric constant), is better, because it shortens electrical length of cable, even the same length. important is also to look at central conductor resistance and sh... | |
| A life sentence!!! @dynamiclinearity +1 “My Technics EPC 100 MK4 moving magnet cartridge with bandwidth that gives any moving coil a run for the money" somehow ppl are shy to discuss why MC needs double of track-force (needle pressure) vs advanced MMs.. problem wit... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? @richardbrand +1 on "an expensive power amplifier is likely to benefit least from power conditioning” in analog design requirements, more noise / ripple / drops in the AC power requires more circuitry, higher cost components, etc., to isolate “no... | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @atmasphere I am measuring R/L/C very accurately at 50Hz/1kHz/20kHz freq. point often, using 4-wire RLC meter. Please ping me in IM if you need some guide. Measuring Voltage drop isn’t trivia, DMM isn’t enough, you need scope.. | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers @jsalerno277 "The reason is that an effectively larger diameter has less inductance since it has a larger cross-sectional area” - more important is how close positive and negative wires are, the closer wires are (twisting helps), the lower loop i... | |
| Help me mod my tube amp I would be careful on trying to find genuine-matched NOS tubes. number of NOS offered these days exceeds former production! | |
| Help me mod my tube amp I would add output transformers to try.. Luxman/Tango/other good-ones.. | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @coltrane1 +1 LOL | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @atmasphere with all my respect to you and your wonderful creations, I like to add more details to this, somewhat important, discussion: 1) I think it’s pointless do discuss effects caused by “most cables/cords/wirings” without bringing up techni... | |
| 1 meter speaker cables As funny as it sounds, shorter is better! The key driver of going mono-blocks path is an opportunity to shorten speaker cables. Good speaker cables, like Kimber-Kable 12TC, allow to keep performance with longer cables. 12TC at 8ft length has 0.0... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton never had Linn or “uncle Steve” LOL. guilty, I have tube Luxman amp in my system for few winter months to enjoy tube sound! | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @jl35 +1 on focusing and testing in details any changes, sometimes negative upgrades etc! | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton “It's just that the price tag is significant” Pleeese don't tell that to my spouse! :-) LOL | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? thanks audition__audio! btw, after few decades of being sound/analog designer, a.s.r. is not my reference or guide at all! enjoy the audio-hobby! |