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What do you mean you “heard” the turntable

I don’t get it. Maybe I just don’t have the biological tool set, but I read all the time how someone heard this turntable or that turntable and they comment on how much better or worse it sounded than some other TT, presumably their own or one they are very familiar with. 

Thing is, they are most likely hearing this set up on a completely different system in a completely different environment. So how can they claim it was the TT that made the difference?  The way “synergy“ is espoused around here how can anybody be confident at all considering how interdependent system interactions are. 

Can someone illuminate me?
last_lemming
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halcro
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I don't think we've yet reached the boundaries of detection.

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frogman
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jtimothya, we are in violent agreement, as they say.  Nice post.
wb27
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I recently exchanged a IFi phono for an Allnic 1201 and the difference is easy to discern.  I recently tried a MoFi UltraDeck with the ultra tracker cartridge in my system, I liked my really old sansui 2050c with Hana SL cartridge much than the Mofi setup.  Though captive cables do give you that little extra radio transmission that creeps into the output (ugh)....
oh, adding a van Evers power conditioner made the whole thing much quieter, heard that right away !
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