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| Isolation of my chair, am I crazy??? Hi JD, Most of your observed improvements are consistent with a lowering of the noise floor. Perhaps it was the noise floor of the brain's circuitry that was lowered (not the noise floor of the electronic equipment). If you think about it, the bra... | |
| Making Your Own 2D Diffusors Peter s,The following "translation" of your primitive root link may be easier to follow: Let p be a prime number and let b be any number greater than 1 but less than p. Divide each of the following p powers of b by p: 1 (=b^0), b, b^2, b^3, ..., b... | |
| Making Your Own 2D Diffusors Peter s,"...a random combination of columns..."Neither the heights of columns nor their arrangement is random. They are determined by a precise mathematical formula in Number Theory."...stretch acoustically transparent fabric over the frame..."Bes... | |
| BEST UPGRADE regardless of cost? The best upgrade is a balanced one, preferably the one that addresses the weakest links in your system. Short of that, it's like asking the question : Do you prefer to listen to a signal from a superb source that has been compromised by downstream... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Hi Phredd2,You asked for some additional elements for rigorous methodology. In addition to the acuity tests I mentioned previously, participants should pass reasonable memory tests. Otherwise, their inability to distinguish 2 amps may not be a sta... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Qualia8,There is a vast array of specializations among the neurons in the brain. Some, as you pointed out, detect differences, others sameness; yet others, change or motion or timing, etc. Ignoring that complexity, may lead both sides of this disc... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Qualia8,"Far from cleansing the auditory taste of one note from one's mind and then playing another, you need to play them immediately back to back for comparison purposes. Perhaps you can switch the order around to eliminate after-effects"Switchi... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Hi Pabelson, You did not address some critical issues I raised in my posts. In particular, that the "after effects" of sensory experience can combine with subsequent stimuli to smear differences. The "after effects" result when the brain circuits ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? For the record, I am not opposed to rigorous DB tests; they can provide useful information. However, I do NOT have a high level of confidence in definitive interpretations of a negative result of a short-term DBT involving 2 components that may ha... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Hi Pabelson,"But they've also discovered that, once you've learned those differences, the best way to confirm that those differences are really there is through short-term listening tests that allow you to switch quickly between the two components... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? With apologies to Shakespeare and all logicians:"To DBT or not to DBT is or is not the question."Hi Pabelson,Your quote points us to the central point of this discussion:"Yes, beauty can grow on you. But notice that it's not the lady who's changin... | |
| CD player in the $2,500 to $5,000 range Msmcelwee,I have the Ayre CX-7e in my second system. If you want to be within the $3,000 range and you don't want to consider modded players, the 7e is the ticket. However, if timber accuracy and grain free and fatigue free characteristics are ver... | |
| What 4 or 5 sacds should I have? Hi Warren, Here is a variety of attention grabbers that may interfere with your futszing around:1. Five Songbirds, A Reference Collection of Female Vocalists, FIM SACD 048. If any of the ladies resonate with your tastes, you can check out their CD... | |
| SACD vs xrcd Keis, As you pointed out, factors other than format technicalities also influence the quality of the end product. I find there are good as well as not so desireable end products for each of the formats I tried: CD, SACD, and XRCD24. For an ear ope... | |
| Am I behind the digital eightball? Hi Warren, (With tongue half in cheek.)...On the other hand....Although you may be safe to assume that the big corporations will not likely be big Moonie supporters, you wouldn't be so safe in assuming they won't leave you high and dry after they ... |