jderimig
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| What are you streaming tonight? Neil Young tonight.HomegrownAfter the GoldrushHarvestAll on Qobus high res. | |
| Hearing loss and HiFi Your "microphone" may have lost some sensitivity but the brain compensates. As frogman5 posted, stay with good quality resolving equipment (but don't need to go crazy). Your brain will train to this.Later you can experiment with digital equaliza... | |
| MiniDSP SQ - Surprised Update:Did some equalization with REW. A small (<4db) correction was needed to suppress upper bass and lower midrange.There was a significant improvement (especially on vocals) but I think I am hearing the poor DAC's in the MiniDsp2x4. When I... | |
| MiniDSP SQ - Surprised Bug has bit, I just ordered a MiniSharc so I can have a digital-to-digital solution. Streamer -> MiniSharc -> DAC(s). | |
| Final Report, Canare 4S11 Speaker Cable I recently made a pair of speaker cables from Canare 4S11. I used cheap amazon spade lugs at each end. System is Merlin3B with Music Reference RM9 amp, RM5 pre and Denafrips Ares2 DAC.Only 3 days in and to me they sound better in my system than... | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... " The designer of a truly great amp does not use a crappy power cord to save a very few dollars, a practice that would make his amp sound worse so that you buy something else. These cords thrive on the placebo effect, i.e. The more it costs, t... | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... Sound is totally an interpretation by the brain. 100% abstract. Pressure waves are real.Like sound, time is totally created by the brain, its not real, it is man made. Clocks are real, time isn’t. Music is the brains interpretation of pressure wav... | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... The brain is a wondrous machine. | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... You will hear it when you believe it. | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... >Measurements do not tell the whole story. Play A note with a cheap >violin the meter will show 440Hz. Play the same note with a Stradivarius >the same meter will also show 440Hz.>Verdict? Trust you ears. The dominant frequency of bot... | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... LOLZ noise floor -175dbz. What do you think the noise floor is in your listening room (house) with everything off? | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... ^But in your home you probably have 15’ to 40’ of 14 gauge from your electrical box to your outlet. 2’ of 2 gauge from the wall to your amp is doesn’t make up for that 14 ga run. Its ridiculous actually. | |
| Are MULLARD NOS EL34s and LTA ZOTL40 REF worth the price of admission? IMO with my ears, no.I bought new Chinese EL34s from a local tube matcher in Cleveland and they sound wonderfull in my RAM-9mkii. I would just start with matched new production Chinese EL34's and see how they sound. About 160 to 200 for the octe... | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... The best power cord is NO power cord. Why adulterate that painstakingly selected Romex 14-2 cable and the two Siemens circuit breakers that supply that pure pristine electrical power to your outlet? Just remove the outlet and continue with a shor... | |
| RCA cable design " So if you have one conductor made of, say, copper, and the other of, say, silver, and the two conductors are of significantly different lengths (one is straight, the other is spiraled around it), what effect would that have? "It would have the e... |