whipsaw
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| Do Costly XLR Cables Make A Difference? I'm an electrical engineer and many time have serious doubts about one might consider "woo-woo" claims about the impact of more expensive interconnects, power cords, fiber optic, etc. And yet, based on the rest of your above post, you apparent... | |
| Do Costly XLR Cables Make A Difference? I am not an "objectivist", and, as mentioned in my initial comment, do believe that cables can make a difference. But since a poster recommended these: Iconoclast 4x4 UPOCCC Gen 2 I thought that some readers might be interested in Amir’s revi... | |
| Do Costly XLR Cables Make A Difference? Hi @ryder I’m skeptical. No, not a "cable skeptic", as I have spent significantly more money on cables than any true skeptics ever would, and believe that they can indeed make noticeable differences. But I am also a strong believer in diminishin... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? @akg_ca Thanks for sharing your experiences. Obviously related components can be a very important variable, and then there is the ever present question of diminishing returns. The other issue is that even if one wanted to A/B speaker cables, it... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? AUDIO: SPEAKER CABLES - From Alan Shaw (owner and designer of HARBETH) ” … So, the moral of the story is this: the most important factor of the loudspeaker cable that you should select is the amount of metal in the cable core. More metal mean... | |
| Best concert video ev-ah Well, given that it took place ~50 years ago, the audio and video quality pushes my vote to Hendrix in Maui: Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Maui 1970 | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. Yes, I have thought, related to one of my Audio Axioms: the more hyperbolic the name of a component, the more skeptical one should be, especially of relative value 😀 | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? I have to say that some of the responses by certain posters, including the OP, have been very disappointing. @prof is a serious audiophile who has related, professional qualifications, is an independent thinker, and a very helpful contributor to ... | |
| Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts @designsfx I am also using an Aqua La Scala Optologic MKII, and if you find any DAC that you consider to be clearly better, I'd be interested to hear about it. I say that because it's difficult for me not to imagine a steep slope of diminishing ... | |
| Has anyone truly compared Vintage vs. Modern? I have never done an A/B comparison, but a few years ago I enjoyed using a re-capped Accuphase E-303X. When I switched to modern amps (Hegel, GATO and now Circle Labs), though, I would say that it was clear that they were better. | |
| Cabling Recommendations MILLER CARBON Cable Cradles....is that the Millercarbon that used to post on these forums Definitely. You can see the product on his website: millercarbon | |
| LaScala dac with telefunken tubes @designsfx I would be interested to hear your impressions of any differences between the two. As I mentioned, I am quite inexperienced with tubes, and my current hybrid amp and DAC are my first forays into that world. I don’t doubt that there ar... | |
| Has anyone compared the Coda CSib to a Jeff Rowland Continuum S2? am sure in the ensuing decade, with successive iterations, the product has been improved sonically, but i have no desire to try again... i just feel with that brand, the money is put towards the sexy milled faceplate as much as the innards and ac... | |
| LaScala dac with telefunken tubes I am using a La Scala DAC, and am delighted with it. I am not, however, a tube expert. FWIW, the reviewer Christian Punter, who hold the Aqua DACs in high regard, had this to say on the thread topic: As the manufacturer has specially selected t... | |
| Has anyone compared the Coda CSib to a Jeff Rowland Continuum S2? Thanks for the responses thus far! I find it interesting that all have been focussed on Coda, and none on Jeff Rowland. I presume that the lopsided disparity is due at least in part to the fact that the latter is Class D, and many audiophiles rem... |