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| Does creating a loom in cables in a system make a significant difference? @juanmanuelfangioli. For clarity, I was suggesting that it is convenient for manufacturers if that approach is promoted. I did not say by whom. See below (after the next para) for two quotes from Hi Fi Plus reviews of Nordost cables. I recall tha... | |
| Does creating a loom in cables in a system make a significant difference? The "loom" theory is very convenient for manufacturers to promote sales of their own cables. To the extent that cables impact on sound quality there is no more logic in suggesting that the same make of cables throughout a system has an exponential... | |
| Install A Dedicated AC Line at home @mikempls - If I read the conversion chart correctly 10 gauge is equivalent to 2.5sq twin and earth european cable. That being the case, the electrician is just being lazy in wanting to mix in a smaller gauge cable because 10 gauge is not especial... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Jonathan Richman's Jonathan Goes County - the best country album by a non country artist - and with absolutely hilarious cover art! | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them Thanks Mahler - and I loved your embedded in a slab of petroleum and extracted with a needle reference! | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them @mahler123. I was being polite in not stating the obvious - that the motivation for pressing a digital file into a piece of plastic is profit. There's nothing inherently wrong with a profit motive but passing off a digital product as purely analog... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them The Absolute Sound piece was a disgrace. And anyway, if Mobile Fidelity believes that its DSD are so good (which, by the way, I have no reason to disbelieve) it begs the question as to why they are being released in vinyl rather than exclusively o... | |
| Please recommend speakers for 45 watt SET amps Devore. Do consider the O96 if the budget runs to it. | |
| Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room Thanks for the updated details on the room and it is a good idea to consult with Gik. Are there drapes for the windows? It is possible with that ceiling height and configuration that it will need some treatment as well as the walls. Anyway, as Bli... | |
| WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? @op - try another speaker from a BBC influenced manufacturer like Harbeth or Spendor. That will tell you very quickly if the speaker is an issue for you. I haven't heard the Fritz speaker but I did have a pair of ProAc's which used a very similar ... | |
| 15 ohm speakers yea or nay? If the Falcon speaker is their LS 3/5a, it has a minimum impedance of just over 7 ohms and Hi Fi News rated it as an 8ohm design. Also, it has a big peak in frequency response over 10k. Taking those aspects together, it might sound louder, partly ... | |
| Does a turntable make a DRAMATIC difference? @slaw - thanks. +1 on Bozz Scaggs and Aimee Mann! | |
| Does a turntable make a DRAMATIC difference? @rudyb - that is a gross mis-characterisation of the function of a turntable. The best description of the function of a turntable that I have hears is Touraj Moghaddam's statement that it's function is "to measure the groove with respect to time".... | |
| Most Extensive State-of-the-Art DAC Survey Ever! No Esoteric included either. Re the DCS, the Apex upgrade significantly mitigates the tendency to sterility in the DCS sound so he would have hated the pre-Apex Vivalid! | |
| Does a turntable make a DRAMATIC difference? @OP. It depends on how good your digital is. Back in the 80s when CD appeared a Rega 3 would obliterate the players that are available. That's not the case any longer. Small volume mechanical engineering costs lots of money so, arguably, its beco... |