willemj
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| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I agree that that link was real fun. However, it reflects exactly what has been found in other double blind tests. Personally, I was once Peter Walker of Quad fame's guest at a blind demonstration of his three famous amplifier designs. At the time... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? http://matrixhifi.com/ENG_contenedor_ppec.htm | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Duke,Your Swarm system is indeed interesting and sounds like the theoretically correct solution, even if one with rather a lot of boxes in the room. In my case, I think I will continue to save for a second PV1d, used with the Antimode, as a domest... | |
| Quad 2905 versus Quad 2805 plus subwoofer I have my sub filter set at 33 Hz and a steep 4th order slope, so probably with a bit less overlap than you have. | |
| what speaker cable do you use on the Evolution Acoustics MM3 speakers or Harbeth speakers. If cables have a sonic signature there is something wrong with them. Fortunately, even cheap ordinary cables can be completely neutral, unilke many boutique cables. | |
| Best Tube/SS Amps for Harbeth 7ES-3 Alan Shaw never said that all amplifiers sound the same. Amplifiers can sound different for a number of reasons. The first is if the input sensitivity is too high, as is all too often the case. This may sound impressive, but what you are hearing i... | |
| Underspent on speakers relative to overall system? Even a dirt cheap Chromecast Audio is a bitperfect perfect source, and the electronics further down the chain need not be that expensive either. See here for a test using an Audio Precision test bench of the 2x350 watt Yamaha P3500s power amp that... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters I have tried to imagine what is meant by fast or slow bass. It cannot be the speakers themselves for reasons that have been explained. My hypothesis is that what people are referring to is really the delay that is visible in waterfall graphs of ba... | |
| Sound via laptop vs phone vs tablet OK, my misunderstanding. And that should indeed all produce the same datastream, and bits are bits, so there cannot be any difference (are you not imagining things - the audiophile curse?). Unless of course the datastream is somehow compromised by... | |
| Sound via laptop vs phone vs tablet There is quite bit of confusion here. The format of the stream is irrelevant, because you are using the same stream in all three cases. However, you are using the analogue output of the three devices, and they each have a different inbuilt DAC. Th... | |
| Can you hear the difference? The lower the bitrate the easier it is to tell the difference, that is no surprise. The question is if there is any point on the spectrum where lossy files cannot be distinguished from losslessly compressed files like FLAC. The BBC have done some ... | |
| 2017 vs. 1990s - How far we have come I completely agree with the first post. Budget gear is so much better than it was in the 1970's when I first started. The principal reason is manufacturing technology. By the late 1970's or early 1980's good amplifiers were as good as it can be, i... | |
| Subwoofer recommendation I am very pleased with the DSpeaker Antimode 8033 equalization. I would never again use a sub without this or something similar. It is far more important than the choice of the sub itself.Your room is small, so you do not want a sub that goes very... | |
| Harbeth P3's or CS7 easier drive But all speakers like power, so I use a 2x100 watt Quad 405-2 to drive my P3ESR, and I just bought a 2x250 watt Yamaha P2500s for my son to drive the M30.1s that he is planning to buy. | |
| Harbeth P3's or CS7 easier drive If you want the clarity of the P3ESR and the efficiency and bass of the C7, I think the M30.1 is what you need. |