simonb
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| What one change to your room, system, or setup made the biggest improvement? Detached house. Able to play whenever I wan't. Well if the Mrs don't mind :) | |
| Am I no longer allowed to consider myself an Audiophile? @faustuss "where does the noise come from" It's inherent in all recording processes, in the case of MP3 its due the omission of data or bits or music and what's left is noise. That makes no sense and is actually incorrect. Thanks. | |
| Am I no longer allowed to consider myself an Audiophile? @faustuss "Most popular music only has a few decibels of dynamic range anyway, the rest is noise. Low bit MP3 can cover that and you probably can't hear the difference either." I differ on that opinion. It's more than a few DB's and where does ... | |
| Am I no longer allowed to consider myself an Audiophile? The classic Audiophiles use music to test their system while music lovers use the system to listen to new music. Back in the day it was always the desire to play that new album being way more enjoyable than waiting to listen to it on the Audiophil... | |
| Standalone DAC upgrade from onboard integrated Interesting as a friend of mine has done the same thing. He bought my Chord Qutest as a stand alone DAC to pair with his MS6i. I must admit after a listening session we concluded it made quite a difference. The MS6i is one hell of an amp only let ... | |
| Is my new amp TOO GOOD? May I ask the question: Are you using any silver interconnect cables? Silver can add a brightness to the presentation from my experience. | |
| Do You Regret Selling Your Turntable and Albums ? @foamcutter I sold my turntable and nearly all of my albums years ago. This was the Linn LP12, Ittok, Pink Link and whatever MC cartridge I was using at the time. I was tuning my system to the digital formats. My brother found an old TD150 that ... | |
| The “Off The Shelf” Lie @chayro But are in-house drivers or FPGA digital converters really “better” than the best drivers from Scanspeak or Vifa? The best drivers from Scanspeak or Vifa or whoever you fancy will not be tuned to the cabinet or box. Universal drivers will... | |
| Dealing with Vibration on 2d Floor of Home @chayro I had my LP12 mounted on the wall under the stairs back in the day. Even with concrete floor and breeze block walls. Feedback from the bass. As you say the only way for the is wall mounting. | |
| Who is going to be the first manufacturer to make a Fibre Optic purifier? @macg19 Indeed it is. | |
| Tips for first time audio show attendees (like me) Top tip. Once you have sorted out what is what choose a room where you really like the sound. Then when you get really tired towards the end of the day and want to go go and sit down there for the last hour or so. Most people have gone by then :) | |
| Who is going to be the first manufacturer to make a Fibre Optic purifier? @lanx003 Indeed. A fix for a problem that doesn't exist. The problem for replacing a cable for me is it goes through two walls and is very carefully managed. I suppose I could talk one of my BT (UK) mates to test and polish it for me. :) | |
| Who is going to be the first manufacturer to make a Fibre Optic purifier? @lanx0003 Indeed. Reflections in fibre optics. Not Ethernet purification via fibre. I'm surprised nobody has jumped on the bandwagon selling a polishing kit for audiophiles or an audiophile fibre optic purifier / cleanup / anti-reflection device... | |
| DIGITAL POPS WITH HDMI CABLE IN DDC TO DACS CONNECTION First of all it might be hardware or software. You have quite a chain of devices between the source and the destination. The first step is to remove it and just test with USB. If that fixes the problem you know where you are. If it's a software p... | |
| Network cable rabbit hole In the world of data centres it was a requirement to only use fully shielded twisted pair cable. Be this CAT5e or 6 or whatever. The Twisted pair cable always ran in it's own cable trays away from mains cabling. Any type approved twisted pair was... |