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| WA-Quantum GmbH's Quantum Chips Goodwin:Good sense of humour, mate! Tube amps don't take 3 hours to warm up, but the chips do seem to develop whatever "magic" is in them over a period of hours. The diary entry was an update of how it sounded after 3 hours of the Quantum chips, w... | |
| Fuses that matter. Thanks for the insight, Lacee. I believe that, different though all of our systems are, some things have traits that are inherent in the design. A mini-monitor, for example, will have, of necessity, a lack of lower bass, and nothing can put that b... | |
| Fuses that matter. Tbg:Thanks! You are my new (audio) hero!I'll try turning the SRs around after a few days of listening to them. I just came out of the listening room, and chose Rick James' Greatest Hits. The CD looks as thin as a size 0 model on a runway, but the ... | |
| Audio fuses Flashunlock, what is the equipment into which you placed the fuses? I used the HiFi Supremes up until yesterday, when I put one SF fuse into one amp and left the HiFi Supreme in the other amp. Not much differentiation there, and I should disclose ... | |
| Fuses that matter. The Synergistic Research fuses arrived yesterday (but UPS put them in the garage. It's only 20 degrees out, so that shouldn't affect them much, right?? :-(I put one SR fuse in, replacing a HiFi Supreme fuse (with the WA Quantum fuse on it). I hear... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Sabai:I'm going to, for the sake if argument, suggest that room treatment is the FIRST place to start, even before the components. (And let me tell you, I myself never started out that way: it took many years for me to realize the room counted so ... | |
| Why does the copy sound better than the original Good question, and I'm no expert on that one!It would seem the practical course of action is to email either Peter McGrath or Robert Harley, and find out if there's been an exploration of why this happens, along with whatever limitations (exclusio... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? I have found the room to be the biggest contributor to sound, Sabai. Even an untreated 13 x 27' room, with many openings (a la Spanish architecture) allows the sound to move into other areas of a house without hitting boundaries, as I found out fo... | |
| Why does the copy sound better than the original There was an issue in TAS where Peter McGrath, engineer for Wilson recordings, heard a copy of the CD and it sounded better. I believe the word he uttered was "impossible!"As it turned out (on CD at least), the CD-R/RW pits are wider than the comm... | |
| WA-Quantum GmbH's Quantum Chips So, using this as a diary entry, it's now 2:03 a.m., exactly 3 hours, 15 minutes after I put the WA quantum chip on the capacitor (at 10:48 p.m.).There is enough of a change in that time to note several things: the backup vocalists on Big Barn Bed... | |
| WA-Quantum GmbH's Quantum Chips Sorry, I meant the "Big Barn Bed" cut on McCartney's Red Rose Speedway album. | |
| WA-Quantum GmbH's Quantum Chips Antigrunge:Having just received some more chips for different placement (capacitor, op-amp/dac chips), I decided to place the capacitor chip on my cj preamp. I had played The Eagles Hotel California album (specifically, the "Hotel California: and ... | |
| Fuses that matter. P.S. The small HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses are 58.95. The large ones are $84.95, same price as the Synergistic Research models. Clearly, it's a race! I got mine thru Revolution Power, which also have the Furutech and IsoClean lines. | |
| Fuses that matter. Harry Pearson, although not stating whether or not he has tried other fuses, states on his website, hpsoundings.com, that he uses the HiFi Supreme fuses. Of course, this doesn't mean he's heard the Synergistic Research or the AMRs. I bought a coup... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Sabai:The conversation seems to have taken a decidely interesting turn, and it's months since this thread started.I am unclear why it has not been stated that a holographic presentation is an inherent property of the component itself. A Philips 10... |