Are audiophiles still out of their minds?

jmcgrogan +1

This is like the movie Groundhog Day, except no one here can do it like Bill Murray.

All the best,
Nonoise

If things are kept at a distance, as they are here, reconciliation will never occur. I’d love to see everyone in the same room and film it for reality TV. I’d make a boatload and go out and buy whatever I want. Fuses, cables, heck, even a new system or two, or three.
 :-)

All the best
Nonoise

Que "Beating Dead Horse" music.

It might sound different on all of our systems but take solace in knowing it's all in our heads.

This has turned into one hell of a pissing contest. Several times the streams have crossed in general agreement (not necessarily on things audio) but the animosity that has built up and the innate hubris seems to have blinded the participants to this. Keep it up and there'll be no dessert. :-)

Carry on.

Wattsperchannel, thanks for the link. 

I just have to add that now that I’ve removed the source’s PC from the same outlet as the integrated, the sound has clean up measurably. I didn’t think it would be as dramatic an improvement but it goes to show that there’s always the potential to improve.

When new, I put both PCs into the same outlet and thought I heard a "lessening" of sorts but wrote it off to the PCs being new and needing break in. Well, it’s been 300-400 hours since and I couldn’t believe the amount of feedback hash that the integrated was putting into the wall outlet and being picked up by the PC for the SACD player.

Putting it into my Blue Circle Thingee on the other outlet did nothing untoward and everything for the betterment. Highs have extended, sibilance is greatly reduced, there’s more micro dynamics, and greater see-through and expression.

I never realized just how much can be attained by following the basics. The trouble is, there is so much debate on this: outlets, isolation, conditioners, et al that one doesn’t know what to believe until they try.

All the best,
Nonoise