geoffkait
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| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? douglas_schroeder1,806 posts02-28-2019 10:54amVery polarizing topic.>>>>>Absolutely! | |
| The Science of Cables What! Whoa!! Hey, we’ve forgotten cyrogenics!! That’s actually OK since most companies that matter do it, anyway. | |
| The Science of Cables I’m pretty sure the Government pays more than that. A lot more. Do you think they just buy them off Audiogon? | |
| tube pre amp or tube amp Old wives’ tale. Tube bass is generally full, fat and juicy. Juicy like Lucy. Of course like everything else bass performance can vary from brand to brand obviously. | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? It actually doesn’t matter to the average person whether the preamp is Reverse Polarity or Correct Polarity because so many recordings are in Reverse Polarity. So, what’s the difference? Since there are no technical standards for Polarity in the i... | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? I suspect there’s a lot of overlap among customizing, modification, upgrading components (like capacitors and fuses) and tweaks. I once owned the World’s most extensively Modded Oppo 103, trust me, you wouldn’t have recognized it. After Ric at EVS... | |
| Paradigm Persona series contuzzi290 posts02-27-2019 1:59pmI can see how a wood floor or sub floor would still allow a benefit from isolation now that you say it. I’m on concrete. >>>>As fate would have it the concrete floor is also moving, slightly perhaps, m... | |
| Speaker Width? Hey, here’s an idea. Why doesn’t someone compare Jim Smith’s speaker set-up method with the speaker set track on the XLO Test CD? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, CD, NDM | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? Actually, the problem mostly arises during the analog laser reading process. You know, what with the CD flopping around in there like crazy and the high energy scattered laser light getting into everything. 🤪 Yes, I know what you’re thinking: “Bu... | |
| Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests stargazer372 posts02-27-2019 3:02amMost disagreements on HiFi forums are like the OK Corral gunfight of egos. The posters pretend to argue their particular subject or cause but in reality they are imposing their 'superior' ego over the other and ... | |
| The Science of Cables What’s the rumpus? Everyone in the high end knew all about power cords 25 years ago. All without benefit of blind tests, if I can be so bold. This is all so anticlimactic. The sky is falling, the sky is falling! 🐥 | |
| Speaker Width? Am I high? | |
| Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests rodman999993,530 posts02-26-2019 7:46pmI deleted my previous, very unkind, post and regret having made it. Everyone has their own field, after all.>>>>Correction. Everyone has his own field, after all. | |
| Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests You lose. You’re both way way off. 😥 |