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| A fresh approach to cable analysis If a case comes up where something is found to be reliably detectable in a double blind listening test, but measurements show no difference, or not enough difference to be audible based on the current established theories, then we have found somet... | |
| Is Budget Audiophile an oxymoron? My answer is no, based on how I define "audiophile." An audiophile is just someone who appreciates sound quality and enjoys putting some effort in to pursuing it. It’s not about how much excellent sound quality they can afford. | |
| A new measurement specification for speakers? I think Fletcher-Munson may still be part of it. There is a variance in response between different speaker models, and that alone may explain why some of them sound better at low volume than others. There's another possibility involving directivit... | |
| Audio Signal Run Through a Banana If it turned out that green bananas really did sound better I guess I could get along with that. I like bananas so I'd just have to plug in new cables as the old cables ripened, and then eat the old cables. The problem is that by the time you burn... | |
| Well ..This Is Interesting...What Do You Think.?? Food For Thought..Or BS? @dynacohum " I know they were supposed to have "tubelike" sound, but I can’t reconcile that with the fact they were not transformer coupled and had typical solid state low output impedance." I was wondering about that too. Did the transfer functi... | |
| I rarely use center channel with processor In my experience I prefer the more direct sound of a dedicated center channel over the phantom center when both are done well. For me this applies to music as well as movies. But I'm not setup with the amp channels or processor, or speakers space ... | |
| Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine I think presentation is a big deal. I enjoy playing my CDs, or even ripped copies off my hard drive rather than streaming. For me it has nothing to do with the sound quality. It’s something to do with having a local collection that I don’t have to... | |
| Stereophile - Sabrina 5 I tried flipping my midrange polarity last night. The effect is easily audible. Not terrible sounding but noticeably recessed in the range of the crossover, which in my case is around 2000 Hz. I didn't listen long enough to see if I could detect ... | |
| Stereophile - Sabrina 5 The frequency response is interesting. I can attest to the fact that these kinds of nulls are often not as audible as they appear on the graph because the sound energy is still entering the room. I have digital active crossovers and I can flip the... | |
| The HiFi Five on YouTube Thanks for sharing. I'm enjoying these. | |
| Speakers on the long wall @clio09 Yes, I work at ASC. | |
| Speakers on the long wall I have a 12’ x 20’ room and played it on the short wall for a while. With the room untreated the soundstage felt constrained and I generally wasn’t happy with that, although the bass response was excellent. One thing that really made a big differe... | |
| Mofi Sourcepoint 8 made me realize I’m a critical listener I couldn’t find data on any of the Dynaudio Evoke series, but looking at their other speakers I could see a lot of what one would expect from the topology they typically use, and that is a widening of dispersion until the crossover frequency, wher... | |
| This hobby is for hedonists, not scientists I'm a hedonist in the Epicurean philosophical sense of the word. That might disqualify me from this hobby unless I keep it cheap and simple. | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers If you really want to test it, get two pairs of the same speaker cables. Test them at the beginning, make sure they sound the same. Then break in one pair and don't break in the other. After the broke in pair are really starting to shine, plug in ... |