Just a note on "sound stage" -- generally speaking, talk of wider sound stages is pure nonsense. Optimally, the sound stage should be no wider than the distance between the speakers, driver to driver. If you are hearing something wider than that -- and this is not only possible but often or usually the case -- then you are hearing room interactions and reflections. This, in turn, means you are hearing more mush and less music.
If you listen to highly directional speakers smartly placed in a room -- Quads, Gradients, and a lot of monitors fit the bill -- you'll get the picture. If you listen to a system in a room that has been well-treated (panels, etc.) you'll see what an enormous difference that makes. A difference in electrical source would make no difference in reflective qualities in your room or directionality of the speaker. I have a hunch that, when people speak about wider sound stages, they are really experiencing a clearer experience of instrument/voice/etc. placement, more "air" and better reproduction of decay, etc. IE, stuff having to so with a better reproduced sound stage. Just a hunch, though. jmourik;165358 Wrote: > Should a dedicated line use 10awg or 12awg? I think electricians kinda > want to use 12awg by default, is there a benefit in using 10awg? When > reading some boards on the internet, people jump up and down raving > about blacker backgrounds, wider soundstages, bla bla bla I'm an > audiophile bla bla bla. Then others tell you it doesn't really > matter... What's a simple Dutch guy like me supposed to think? Let > alone do! > If I get a recepticle (shunyata, oyaide, furutech, pspower?) that can > handle two dedicated lines in one, should I go for that. two lines? > Should that use two separate wires, or the 2-in-1 wire I think you can > use for that? > > Anyways... Any suggestions? > > Happy Holidays!!! > > jan van mourik -- lafayette Sweet Home Alabama ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lafayette's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31032 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
