@nonoise
At least you tried to spell my nick right. I’m nowhere near saying all cables or amps sound the same. I’m once again balancing the distortion character on the F5 I built and I know that thing sounds different than other amps. It’ll sound different today than it did yesterday when I’m done with it. Cables? Yep, those sound different too, in an extremely nuanced way. Just like building the amp, I built cables to see what differences I could notice. I actually surprised myself there. I A/B’d both channels to make sure I was hearing what I was hearing. There was a noticable difference, but hardly a "completely unlistenable" difference like Auxinput claims a tiny little fuse in the power supply makes. I’m more than happy to try different things out. I’ll probably drop a dual mono power supply in the F5 at some point to hear the difference. I’ll probably build other amps and pre-amps. I’d like to build better cables. Fuses? Sorry. Auxinput is just lying when he says it made a 3dB difference. There’s no physical phenomenon in the universe that would explain that and that’s a difference easily measured. If the differences were that obvious that would be a big issue. There are so many other things to be tweaked and manipulated before worrying about something like a fuse. Things you can actually measure. I’m reading the posts here of people that couldn’t even tell me how well their active devices are paired, or how they’re being manipulated by degeneration or feedback, or how high they’re biased, but they’re fretting over a fuse. The signal path resistors make much bigger differences. Where’s all the threads debating those? Fuses are the playground for those who lack the understanding of what’s inside the box.
At least you tried to spell my nick right. I’m nowhere near saying all cables or amps sound the same. I’m once again balancing the distortion character on the F5 I built and I know that thing sounds different than other amps. It’ll sound different today than it did yesterday when I’m done with it. Cables? Yep, those sound different too, in an extremely nuanced way. Just like building the amp, I built cables to see what differences I could notice. I actually surprised myself there. I A/B’d both channels to make sure I was hearing what I was hearing. There was a noticable difference, but hardly a "completely unlistenable" difference like Auxinput claims a tiny little fuse in the power supply makes. I’m more than happy to try different things out. I’ll probably drop a dual mono power supply in the F5 at some point to hear the difference. I’ll probably build other amps and pre-amps. I’d like to build better cables. Fuses? Sorry. Auxinput is just lying when he says it made a 3dB difference. There’s no physical phenomenon in the universe that would explain that and that’s a difference easily measured. If the differences were that obvious that would be a big issue. There are so many other things to be tweaked and manipulated before worrying about something like a fuse. Things you can actually measure. I’m reading the posts here of people that couldn’t even tell me how well their active devices are paired, or how they’re being manipulated by degeneration or feedback, or how high they’re biased, but they’re fretting over a fuse. The signal path resistors make much bigger differences. Where’s all the threads debating those? Fuses are the playground for those who lack the understanding of what’s inside the box.
