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| What makes a speaker thousands more... Often things work in reverse. The manufacturer decides to offer a speaker at a given price point, and then designs a speaker that it can sell profitably at that price point (or points, if it's designing a whole line of speakers). The price is, as ... | |
| Speaker wire - equal length or shortest? Assuming you use a low-resistance (think thick) speaker cable, you can get away with different lengths. An extra 15 feet of high-resistance cable could result in some FR imbalance between channels. But given that one of your runs is 35 feet, you s... | |
| I m a beginner. Please help Some people above would like you to listen to only one kind of advice, Dave. Before you assume that everything you've been told here is true, I'd suggest you find out for yourself. | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Katharina: Of course it's hard to believe a difference might just be in our heads when it seems so "huge." And some of those perceived differences are indeed the result of real sonic differences, so we can't dismiss such claims out of hand. I thin... | |
| thank you all i already feel the suppot. Yes. Go out and compare $1000 speakers and $2000 speakers. Then compare $500 amps and preamps to $1000 amps and preamps. If you think the extra money spent on electronics makes a bigger difference, then stick you your current ratio. If not, consid... | |
| Attention Scientists, Engineers and Na-s JD: "The claim of audible difference is not just psychological, and science has a way to prove it." This is what's known as assuming your conclusion. The claim of audible difference may indeed be "just psychological." Your requirement that Steve a... | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Katharina: People who "think outside the box" are essential to the advancement of science. But only if their thinking doesn't take us over the same ground we traversed decades ago. One cannot contribute to scientific advancement if one remains wil... | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Detlof: I'm afraid I can't give you a source for that. (I'm not a freakin' research library, ya know.) I don't know what the mean time between error correction failures is, but it's a pretty rare occurrence (otherwise you'd be hearing all sorts of... | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Doug: There isn't an ounce of hard scientific data in Albert's post on green pens. That's just the clever spiel that sells the snake oil. Hard scientific data would, for example, compare the average number of uncorrected errors per hour of playing... | |
| I m a beginner. Please help Dave: Since a few posters are pushing Harley's book, let me push the antidote. Call or write The Audio Critic (PO Box 978, Quakertown PA 18951; 215-538-9555) and order back issues #16 and 20. #16 has an article called "Basic Issues of Equipment Re... | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Doug: You got "hard scientific data" on green pens? Spill it, bub. As for amps, listening to two amps and saying, "they sound different" proves nothing. The gold standard is, "Can you consistently identify which of the two is playing, when neither... | |
| Have I been slow to catch on or what... For a hard look at audio mags, check out www.high-endaudio.com, which takes you to a site called Audio Critique. Another frequent critic of TAS and S-phile is www.audioperfectionist.com, particularly the Watch Dog section. It's enough to make you ... | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Doug: I don't think I ever said that if it can't be quantified, it doesn't exist. No fair exaggerating your opponent's position and then criticizing him for exaggerating! What I said was that so far, no one has been able to demonstrate (as opposed... | |
| I m a beginner. Please help Dave: Whether things like power cords make a difference is a subject of controversy, to say the least. The "everything-matters-just-trust-your-ears" school is well-represented here on Audiogon, and among the better-known audio mags. But there's an... | |
| Believers VS. nonbelievers???? GEEzzzzz Lots to respond to here, starting with JD: Distortion may not be "all it is," but the testing that's been done indicates that if amps are distinguishable, significant differences in distortion (or FR) will be measurable. No two amps, even of the s... |