I'm no electrical engineer, but do I really need to point out the obvious? Power line transformers? Where you're at on the grid? The wiring in your house? All the products Mike sells on his website? And now you all want to talk about everything working as one harmonious system while the vast majority of you haven't even bothered to voice and optimize your amp to your speakers and room? How many of you have even checked the DC offset on your amp or pre-amp? Maybe I'm crazy, but WAY before I spent $1000 on some cables I'm going to have the gear as optimized as possible. I'm certain people here spend that kind of money on cables and gizmos to make minor alterations to the sound while I'm just over here turning a pot 15 or 20 degrees and getting the exact same result. I do NOT understand why people think like that, and if somebody can explain it to me, I'm genuinely curious to know.
No insult to anybody out there, but when the conversation goes in the direction of tuning all the applicable forces and factors, but absolutely NO talk goes on about doing something with the actual gear as a starting point, the whole conversation looks completely upside down to me. It looks to me like the presumption is that the gear itself is assumed to be in some state of perfection so there's nothing left to do except TUNE THE POWER GRID?!?! Risk burning your house down chasing that last once of nirvana? Like I said, I'm no electrical engineer, but I know enough about power supplies to know that their primary purpose is to output direct current in a manner as indifferent to the input source as possible. But.... instead of modifying the power supply to be more indifferent to the characteristics of your own mains power, we're here talking about running mains power through undersized wire gauges? I can't possibly be the only one who sees the inverted logic of that reasoning.
So far as I can tell, pretty much every "mod" or "tweak" boils down to being some device or method to achieve a pleasing distortion signature where your sitting. The tuning gizmos. The cables. The speakers. The amps. All of it. Doesn't it make more sense to get the basic gear achieving that goal before doing crazy things like running mains power through 20g wire? Or buying $150 fuses? Or $2000 cables? Or filling a room with furniture and fixtures? I guess if all that stuff trips your trigger, go for it. But I'm telling ya, there's more effective ways of getting to that goal. How wires and traces are routed in your pre-amp make a LOT more difference than a lot of the stuff folks think is so very important.
Perspective.... I feel like it's been totally lost. Folks who don't even know what kind of resistors their amp has are debating the most nuanced characteristics of a piece of wire or a block of wood. I don't understand that. Which one is really the more meaningful "walk"?
No insult to anybody out there, but when the conversation goes in the direction of tuning all the applicable forces and factors, but absolutely NO talk goes on about doing something with the actual gear as a starting point, the whole conversation looks completely upside down to me. It looks to me like the presumption is that the gear itself is assumed to be in some state of perfection so there's nothing left to do except TUNE THE POWER GRID?!?! Risk burning your house down chasing that last once of nirvana? Like I said, I'm no electrical engineer, but I know enough about power supplies to know that their primary purpose is to output direct current in a manner as indifferent to the input source as possible. But.... instead of modifying the power supply to be more indifferent to the characteristics of your own mains power, we're here talking about running mains power through undersized wire gauges? I can't possibly be the only one who sees the inverted logic of that reasoning.
So far as I can tell, pretty much every "mod" or "tweak" boils down to being some device or method to achieve a pleasing distortion signature where your sitting. The tuning gizmos. The cables. The speakers. The amps. All of it. Doesn't it make more sense to get the basic gear achieving that goal before doing crazy things like running mains power through 20g wire? Or buying $150 fuses? Or $2000 cables? Or filling a room with furniture and fixtures? I guess if all that stuff trips your trigger, go for it. But I'm telling ya, there's more effective ways of getting to that goal. How wires and traces are routed in your pre-amp make a LOT more difference than a lot of the stuff folks think is so very important.
Perspective.... I feel like it's been totally lost. Folks who don't even know what kind of resistors their amp has are debating the most nuanced characteristics of a piece of wire or a block of wood. I don't understand that. Which one is really the more meaningful "walk"?
