to really enjoy your sound system.
I'm happy now!!
Great Thread Ralph!
Life is precious. Celebrate every day!
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to really enjoy your sound system.
I'm happy now!!
Great Thread Ralph!
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Hummels? My Mom collects those. Made by Nuns I believe.. :)
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already know that.
Nice set up! Enjoy listening!
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Check the newest model of the AudioEngine A5 + s. The newly updated
model has remote.
http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Audioengine-5-Plus#features
I keep a set of A5's in my traveling system...with the SB Touch as a
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Go the features sheet on the website. Yes they DO have the auto
energy save mode...or whatever it's called.
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Clay soil does the soul good!
Home Sweet Home
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favorite music.
It's all good!I'm happy as a clam!
For the sake of a loudspeaker discussion...Deutschland Uber Alles!
Ich liebe mein ADAMs :))
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...Lautsprecher von Berlin are my thingwhatever. I'm an
ADAM believer!
Next upgrade (maybe) is balanced interconnect..throughout.
Why?
1) I can
2) My favorite cables aren't that expensive.
Tschuss!
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Ahhh so!
We can figure this out, and the results would be helpful to others for
sure!
Ich habe Dich ein PM gesendet...
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Pippin Mein freund..
Ich habe dein PM antwortet...
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Main: Transporter ADAM A7 Active Monitors Martin Logan sealed subs
(2).
Travel: Touch Emotiva USP-1 AudioEngine A5's w/ Velodyne DEQ 8R
sub
New: Just added an SVS SB-13Plus for the main system for a three (3)
subwoofer arrangement.
Life is good!
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jo-wie;673620 Wrote:
Isn't it called WASABI?
hide and run
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I s'pose.but the beauty of it all is that the clamps are removable
should
one find that the results aren't what they were hoping for.
A $2.00 gamble on a ferrite clampor a $30,000 power cord.Either
or...
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of the exceedingly low price of the
Amazon product
On the length issueI've always been of the mind that longer is
better, but the discussion would quickly stray from Audio cables.
:):):)
IMO...Use what you like.
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obsessing over the
plating/presentation of canned chicken soup. All style, and no
substance.
Your observations are spot-on AFAIC. :)
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is the nonsensical nature of it all at times. I live for
the craziness. It makes me happy. Many thanks to Phil for the
original post.
Laugh a lot fellas. It's healthy!
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actually APPEARS in your listening room.
I'm trying to pick the lock on my Son's coin bank. I need some more
change to open up the soundstage just a bit more around here...
Just as soon as my wife places those blue dots on the walls
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that pique my curiosity...I then want all I can
get, and a full resolution FLAC file works handily.Were I a
reviewer...using the best available source material would seem to be
the only way. Apparently this isn't always the case.
Perhaps we shall never know
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listening to your favorite music in a simulated swamp will erase all
your worries and fears over corrupted packets.
Bloody shame it took so long to bring this discovery to the masses.
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stone
that is placed on the router that can solve this dilemna.
Nothing that irks me more than having my packet mishandled.
Phil, thanks for posting that. I needed a laugh, and that did the
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amplifier. This could have a bad ending.
My feeling is that anytime you ADD a component to the chain, the best
you could possibly have is the signal quality you have now...without
that added component.Choose your pre/pro carefully should you
decide to go this route.
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those kaboshed noise particles pile up in a gritty,
grimy pile in my son's bedroom. What a mess! They could affect your
home life when your wife wants to know if you paid money for THAT.
Audiophile hoo-hah taking on a life and dimension of its own.
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...bracing for the next wave of expanding soundstages, and layers of
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radio stations that I have saved to
favorites work just fine with Inguz. (Linn is great, but as for the
other favorites..I don't really need DRC'd morning traffic reports)
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Thanks Phil. It appears that your target points are referenced to
approx -8db, or am I seeing things?
Aside from that question, our targets compare quite well.
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So if I'm following along properly, is the -8ish db reference to avoid
applying significant boosts? It seems that this is what the negative
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Thanks...
Just for fun, I generated a new Target referenced to -6db and...I
cannot for the life of me tell why, but it sounds good!The
simulated result doesn't really look different, but...something is
working.
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...but that didn't
happen.
I think I'm just enjoying my system more overall. :)
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of clipping, that
would be a great place to look!
Putting the phase to the proper setting...much better. Even a highly
compressed, levels-to-the-post recording from Lady Gaga isn't a
problem.
The corrected response (projected) is pretty good.
Just listening right now
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...if I had any complaints about AL..it's that things sometimes sound
perhaps a bit TOO under control.
I'm messing with stuff to get an even response, but not so as to
drain the life out of the music.
Where's Bernt when you need him?? :)
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Inguz/AudioLense
working for me rather than sitting idle. Right now...Inguz is only
processing music taken from the hard drive of the PC.
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UI for Inguz still s_cks. Basically non-functional, but it's a
non issue I guess. Inguz functions are easily manipulated on the Boom.
More easily than Touch in some instances.
Thanks for providing the download.Much appreciated.
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is the FREE Introduction to Software
Development home-study course you get. :):)
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Ideas??
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Inguz EQ now working with Touch on my Win7 Basic 1.6ghz notebook(32
bit).
Web UI isn't really functional AFAIC, but the Extras screen on the
Touch allows adjustment w/no problems.
Log files show all is well.
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I like Rhapsody, and use it a lot. $10/month unlimited. They're
streaming at 192kbps.It is what it is, but I like it to listen to
new albums before buying, or to re-discover old music that I'd
forgotten.Great service.
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get up to fiddle with volume when playing multiple albums or tracks.
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Given that most RG values are quite small (4-6db), I don't think one
should lose much sleep over it. IMO, the whole bit truncation
issue...except for high levels of digital attenuation is nothing more
than an audio boogeyman.
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Soulkeeper..
Have you tried some of the better AC cables on your aquarium air pumps?
Quite a difference I must admit.The sound is less strained, and
far more airy and Liquid than before.
Science be damned, the sound of my Touch is simply less digital in this
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This is an excellent read:
http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/power-cables
Applying a bit of actual science to the matter of cables...
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this Saturday to hopefully grab a bag
or two of ferrite clamps. Thanks for the reminder Phil.
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gain staging, and reduces S/N ratio, and can
introduce issues with sometimes uneven volume control tracking near the
extremes of the pot travel.
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Wonderful!That should be a fine sounding set-up you've assembled.
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effective in
decades of testing.
My $0.02
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+1 on the Emotiva. They have some outstanding products. 30 day N.Q.A.
money back guarantee, and a better warranty (5 years transferable) than
many automobiles. There's nothing to lose.
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and it does a really good
job all by itself...plus a few more things for good measure.
High End companies couldn't make a flashlight for less than $1500.
It's true.
I'd say give this ASUS unit a chance. I'd like to hear more about it
at some point.
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Ahhhseems to me there's a little DAC buried somewhere inside that
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No it's not a standalone DAC, but so what?
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tests that prove anyone does.
It's just about audiophiles picking apart products that none of us have
heard which grinds me.
Rant over. :(
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I thought the graphic on the top was from the Lilo and Stich cartoon.
Thanks for posting the link.
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is a very cool virtue of home audio, but not entirely
realistic. A form of hyper-realism. Leads me to believe that
laser-like targeting of instruments within an acoustic space is largely
an artifact of microphone technique, and studio production.
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this stupid comparison.
I kept the TOSlink, and put the AES/EBU cable in a box.
YMMV
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to come to this conclusion.
I don't want differences. I want improvements, and I will find them in
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attempts at future
proofing, but today? This is good stuff.
It would just be nice if the record companies would try and keep up.
Much of what they're pumping out isn't going to be made better by
cutting it into smaller pieces.
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you can go wrong for the $300 price tag.
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but an imagined problem with the
sound at this point.
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Cable Solutions offers the mini-spades if that's what you need Dave.
www.cs1.net
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change...you simply grew to enjoy them.
This can't happen with audio?Hm..
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.So by adding the
Duet, your Transporter is getting cheated.
Simply un-syncing the players on the network should fix your problem.
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Wouldn't hurt.You should be sounding good in about 2 minutes.
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the shelf...
How would this affect our perceptions? Would we still hear these
things the same way?
I doubt it.
We listen with our eyes, our expectations, and our beliefs.
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, but aside from publishing a really nice assessment of cables, I
don't see why I should buy their product.
I'm sure it's fine, but I'll pass.
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, and the
specific drivers involved.
You might get lucky, but I suspect that the odds that one would wind up
with an expensive mess is the more likely outcome.
YMMV
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? I
gotta ride the pine on that one. Way out of my league.
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Hey Adam,
I hope you didn't think I was shooing you to a new thread,or
something.
I just thought that the topic was interesting, and should have it's OWN
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huge
improvements. Need a new name thoughVideo Crystals or the like.
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A simple cache cleaner marketed as an audio clean up program would no
doubt have it's followers.The more it cost...the bigger the
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be worthwhile.I still
believe a commercial product with all the engineering already done is
the most effective solution.
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be worthwhile.I still
believe a commercial product with all the engineering already done is
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That was incredible! +1
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slowly declines in
performance until upgrade is necessary. Don't hear anyone talking
about that aspect of things.
I don't believe it.
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That's cool...but all the differences in capacitors demonstrates why at
least some of us have gotten rid of the problem altogether.
Actives. :)
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would have been able to achieve the same results by
swapping amps and cables in a passive set up.I'm really happy with
what I got, and it would take a demonstration far more compelling than
passive is just better to convince me otherwise.
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.
Actually...mine did once, but it was when my wife found a sales
receipt. Ooops. Totally different thing, but no less frightening.
There is obviously a difference, and perhaps it is one of perspective.
Gotta think about this some more.Interesting conversation material
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if the truth isn't good enough. We want something ever better.
Hyper-truth.
Analyze and Discuss.
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Gall bladder..Spleen. You say tomato, I say tomAHto... :)
A weakness in the design from where I can see is that the designer of
this crap failed to invoke Mayan prophecies in his product execution.
Perhaps in a future revision this shortcoming will be addressed.
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This getting crazy! - Are we going to start saying that some defraggers
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Tourmaline crystals. I just don't think you can have enough of those
things if you're really serious about your sound.
Magic Pebbles are OK (a bit mid-fi sounding at times), but Tourmaline?
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could be a cool twist.
Boy...I sure miss 1982. We had 96db dynamic range, and Perfect Sound
Forever back then ;)
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sort of wife wouldn't say YES to
that?
...and they say that it is the skeptics who are the crazy ones.
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, and I make every effort to avoid being fooled again.
Nobody is picking on the cable believers. We all believe in
quality.
It's the skeptics, and those who demand evidence of the wild claims who
all too often get relegated to the cheap seats in this game.
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line of BS ever conceived
by the minds of men. Mandatory reading for anyone with aspirations to
political office.
P.T. Barnum is smiling from the heavens...he's being proven correct
every day.
A Sucker is borm every minute -P.T. Barnum
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at
that time, suggesting to me that it's not the wire...it's the length
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I was sitting in the airport reading that...and was just dying to see
the capacitance measurements on the JPS cable.Guess they weren't
able to do that.
Curious, but I'll bet it would be brutal.
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