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| Dedicated Line, Surge and Safety Rex, the longer the loop distance between the dirtier digital onto its ac line to the analog preamp's input the lower the expected noise floor....Gs5556, nice post. So why does the 10AWG sound better? It's TOTAL inductance is actually higher than ... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Interesting, El. But then why don't STRINGS sound different after cryo? As well, my Steinway took TWO years for the stretchier Swedish strings to stabilize, requiring tuning every couple of months. Now, after 4 years, it's held a tune for 13 month... | |
| definition please PRaT is a term originally used mostly by the Brits to differentiate toe-tapping from low-bass "slogging". | |
| Speakers for extremely close listening The KEF UniQs are an obvious choice, despite some midrange roughness. | |
| Dedicated Line, Surge and Safety That's right. But more importantly, I suggest that you set up TWO dedicated lines, in order to isolate digital components from analog...or at least use your pre-existing house line to maintain isolation. I also believe that using better cable (Tef... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers The "thickening" in response when one tries to get more bass warmth by taking advantage of walls' reinforcement is more due to the automatic "revoicing" of the upper-bass/low-mids region due to the change from in frequency of the 2pi/4pi transitio... | |
| Understanding impedence matching ...if it's a tube amp ask for the oftentimes dirty little secret of it's output impedence. This will give you a hint as to how much relative frequency response trampolining can occur compared to another amp. Again, you have to home-demo WITH your ... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psych's comic comment has an element of usefulness (!).It's my belief that isothermality has a good deal to do with assuring stable performance of many sensitive instruments. I'm of course biased toward thinking so after spending a decade calibrat... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test I have a close friend who's a piezo-transducer wiz, making what are arguably the best pickups for acoustical instruments, and OE supplier to the guitar giants, too.He told me there was a cryo-craze back a few years ago among the guitar string manu... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Sean, not with the same total bass output. Vents = free extra bass SPLs, good or bad. | |
| Understanding impedence matching Still with us, Cc? Just be careful to home-demo ANY amp you try with a relatively high output impedence, like many tube amps. Simple. | |
| Carmina Burana - I need a good CD It's decent, but try the Shaw/Atlanta. It's pretty wonderful. | |
| Power Conditioner Helpful? Richard, given the dedicated lines and your comments re a low noise floor and lack of grunge I'd suggest you buy more software, not hardware, and enjoy more music! | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test I tried a cryo'd HBL8300 (Porter Port) and a normal 8300 in my system, first with the EMC-1 UP and then on my Aleph P. Couldn't hear a difference. I then simnplified to just using the EMC-1 alone, fed DIRECTLY to Senn HD600 cans through the RCA ou... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Hi Sean. Sealed is smaller? I think you meant compared to TL, of course, since manufacturers use vents specifically because of that free bass from a cheaper, smaller enclosure. And you know, given that the lower 2/3 of a speaker's height is relati... |