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| Sold a component and bought it back, am I nuts? What a deal! You might be bananas, but you're not nuts. | |
| Shifting center image and recommendations on an approach I have had this kind of problem before and in my case it came down to bad speaker cable connections at the amp. The bare multi-strand wire seemed to be able to deform over time and cause the binders to get loose. I'd crank them down real tight an... | |
| Questions about Resolving Systems I’ve been thinking about the word "resolving" and had a visual experience that inspired me. I was sitting at a stop light with a freight truck in front of me. It had a round tail light composed of an array of little red LEDs in what looked like an... | |
| Technical assistance and recommendations needed @nonoise I'm really intrigued with that Technics. It sounds like a drastic improvement over the early Panasonic amps, which despite their low cost seemed to be doing something right in a way I'd never quite heard before. @kenjit I've heard re... | |
| Technical assistance and recommendations needed @nonoise Interesting. I haven’t heard the SUG700 described as bright, but definitely not warm. Thin and light is what I read from various reviews and it matched closely with my impression of earlier, similar amps made by the same parent company.... | |
| Technical assistance and recommendations needed I've read the technics SUG700 is a very good integrated but I've not heard anybody describe that as warm sounding, more light and lean. I'd try auditioning a different integrated amp before giving up on your speakers. I've not used that particular... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? One thing I haven’t heard many complaints about are audio systems or components that over exaggerate depth effects. I do hear about them over exaggerating width from time to time. Imagine a dac that makes instruments that should just be a little ... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @rodman99999 Naysayers are on both sides in this argument. They also argue that it cannot be their imagination so they don’t care what a double blind test shows - that they can’t really hear what they’re perceiving. I don’t call it their imagina... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @cey Are you not merely defining people who enjoy high quality audio as more perceptive? If not, how do you know? I read that Paul Klipsch hired people to do blind testing, and found that some of them were very perceptive to subtle differences... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @hypoman Visual is a huge part of discerning depth for me, and in general making sense of what I'm hearing. If I can see that I'm in a small room my brain will try to interpret whatever I hear in a way that can fit into that small space. David G... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? Thanks for clarifying the use of the Nikon camera’s microphone. You had mentioned that but I didn’t make the connection to it also being the audio source. Is it the camera’s built-in mic. or a separate mic. you attached? I can hear the stereo sepa... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @toddalin How did you get stereo in the recording? The mic. in the picture looks mono. It’s interesting to hear the original track over headphones and then compare it to you recording, which sounds more reverberant and brighter. | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? Our ears have no direct depth perception mechanism like our stereoscopic eyes do. Our brain can simply measure the convergence angle of our eyes for things up close. Once the convergence angle gets close enough to zero everything is just far away.... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile @bob540 The problem of leaving an equipment mess behind for others has been on my mind too. I've built some huge speakers that are a pain to move around. I don't know if anybody will want them after I'm gone. Will they end up in a landfill? Heck... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile @dayglow You can critically listen and enjoy music simultaneously. I never knew this was an issue for some. True. I have experienced myself becoming so critical in my listening at times that I’m impossible to please. I think I hear a problem ... |