Frank
My pleasure. Thanks much
Shadorne
Thanks very much.
My degree of disappointment hinges upon my expectation level.
Why? and perhaps Why not? are both quite formidable precepts.
These questions get me into more trouble than any other. I try not to use it until I cant escape it and there is a real and tangible need for its use.
One thing Ive found out about me over the years is this, I dont know everything. It follows that I should not presume to know everything either. Nor, will I dispute others claims unless Ive found out for myself they arent valid or not quite valid enough.
Further, until all the mysteries of the cosmos are revealed Ill continue on with as open a mind as I am able in regards to life and other things, in general.
In fact Ive never even stayed at a Holiday Inn Express
Gee. Maybe I should have!
Those items with too much cantaffordium or unobtainium within their build are quite simple matters for me
I just ignore them altogether. I wont however, ignore what their influence might be., or their worth to another.
As was noted, cables may or may not be the answer to improve a system., more fundamentally existing issues contribute. Some positively, some negatively. Even dirty volume controls can be compensated for with more capacitive cables, yet at the loss of leading edge definition. This compensation does not provide true improvement, but improvement never the less, as the scratchy and graininess are ameliorated.
Again, as was also stated, cable geometry, and dielectric materials make for changes, or differences in sound as well. Super! Yayy. More fuel for the fire, what?
No. it really isnt. Ive neither the time, funds, nor inclination to set out on another wire hunt as I did a few years ago while searching out a main IC for that (now past) system.
In the end, just what would the result be in fact? It would only be applicable to the now system most likely, and that's a rather myopic viewpoint in truth. Course that depends on the subject-o-meter I was given when all this Gee, Wanna go bowling? Nope. Lets put together a really nice stereo rig instead!, discourse began.
Armed with my brandy new subjectometer, no working knowledge of present day audio gear, some predetermined closed minded reservations, and a budget Ive long since over shot, I began. The first build cost me dearly as I took advice from those who really neither knew, or cared about my concerns. I further hamstrung myself by ignoring the peripherals and accessories required for it to attain a greater level of synergy.
Then one day I was pointed to Audiogone during a speaker demo I was doing, knowing full well it had to be the speakers causing my sonic issues. And aint that always the ticket? Just buy better speakers! Thatll fix everything! lol
A ton of advice, knowledge bases, and some newly met sincere folks later, Ive gone through two completely different rigs, and presently am satisfied with this current one. Of course NOW I need better speakers! But only due to their color, as room esthetics are vastly altered now.
The sole main ingredient that provided me the most substantial gain, was simply setting aside my own ideas and ideologies,
Isolation? We don't need no stinking isolation! ... sorry that was my best Eli Wallach impression too.
On par with that facet, was some hands on trial and error
well, I was accompanied through it all with a forlorn and woefully ignored budget, and of course my trusty subject-o-meter.
How could I have known eight years ago I was better served by the auspices of vacuum tube power? Trust me here, I had no idea and absolutely was a major component of the lots of watts camp
and a fully vested card carrying member.
Now, as weird as this may sound given the last note
Im exploring a PC only based entertainment senter and beginning with its audio aspects. I'm also being regularly surprised by it... in a good way.
As the result of my personal investigations, and surely my willingness to do so, things around Jims House of Sunburn and Sound, are getting better
. Well, that and more littered.
looks like Im gonna need a third rack soon!
or smaller components. Sheesssh!
The bottom line here? See for yourself. Try a this or that in your own rig. Thats the only truly applicable litmus test for the audio afflicted
oh yeah and theres this too, Be honest
as there is a distinction between different and improved. Albeit, the former can and does supplant the latter now and then.
AS this process continues a funny thing happens
your subject-o-meter becomes better calibrated and your system will sound better
usually. RWV..
