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Bottom line: blind listening tests are necessary to determine if a
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Unless you can distinguish Windows 8 from other OS platforms in a blind
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What you hear depends on what your brain is focusing on. You can listen
to the same track several times and focus on a different instrument or
vocal, and hear something different each time. We hear with our brain,
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ace.
Are these precautions necessary in a typical home theater environment
where there's only a small rat's nest of wiring? Everything looks and
sounds fine in my home theater system, and I don't use ferrites; just
generic cat 5e Ether
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Unless your main speakers have good response down to 25 or 30 Hz, a
properly integrated subwoofer can add palpable realism and intensity to
recordings with deep bass in them.
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you can afford. Position them properly, do electronic and/or acoustic
room correction. Buy a high-quality DAC to feed the speakers.
Everything else is a second-order effect.
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udiophilia%20nervosa
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SBGK and Soundcheck will never admit they're wrong, either, despite all
the logical arguments that are presented to them.
Maybe they'll just go away and pollute some other forum with their
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http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=audiophilia%20nervosa
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roclaim an
improvement in sound quality for their products, and that any change is
not necessarily a desirable one.
I hope the above is helpful, but please do not hesitate to get in touch
if you have other questions.
Sincerely,
Chris Russell
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> WTF does banghead mean?
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ufacturers to rip off their customers?
No. They are giving their customers what they want: expensive eye
candy, pride of ownership, bragging rights. Their customers are not
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SqueezeBox player for music. WD TV, Boxee Box, or Apple TV 2 for video.
No need to buy the flashy, nicely-packaged, super-expensive stuff in
that CES article.
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u calibrate by taking
measurements with a supplied microphone at various points in the
listening area. Seems to work very well. If you are in the market for
an AVR, you should consider one with this feature.
http://www.audyssey.com/audio-technology/multeq
http://usa.denon.com/DocumentMaster/U
ack
medicine. Also, notice how carefully worded their advertising is. It is
always just shy of being on the hook for false and deceptive
advertising. Why is this? Again, if you ran the company, wouldn't you
want to be absolutely certain that your product was best and decisively
An article on blind listening tests of amplifiers:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid-state/12752-blind-listening-tests-amplifiers.html
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An audiophile power cable blind listening test:
http://www.auricles.com/new_page_41.htm
And the results: http://www.auricles.com/Kiang_Power_cable_test(2).xls
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A SB Touch will not give any significant improvement in sound over a
Duet + DacMagic.
Save your money and put it into a speaker upgrade fund. Better speakers
will give you the biggest improvement to the sound of your system.
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> us numpties to have some objective measure of what's generally
> considered merely opinion (and left at that), what's generally
> considered total b.s., and what is considered "good" science! Thanks.
Good audio science = validated by blind list
nitude better sound" is pure BS.
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What about all the wire in the walls? You just replaced a 3 ft. section?
You also need to rip out all that substandard wire inside the walls, all
the way back to the power meter, and replace it with Venom as well.
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r skirt---I say go for it. If tweaking that Touch to perfection
> gives you a woodie, woodie it up man. Hobbies are suppose to be fun,
> no?
True. Do what floats your boat. But don't foist off voodoo science on
unsuspecting newbies looking to use a SB Touch in their music sy
guidof;684632 Wrote:
> Yes, I have, and I'm fully aware of the fallibility of our senses.
>
> Just the same, I don't see any of us driving around with our eyes
> closed. ;-)
>
> Guido F.
I was not proposing a listening test with your fingers i
nd
of test. See if listener gets significantly more than 50% correct. Not
hard; should only require an hour or two.
Have you watched this video from Ethan Winer's Audio Myths Workshop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ
Then you will learn that hearing can be steered, and what you thin
pling issues" still stands.'
So it appears that cat 5 is preferable to cat 6 to avoid RF effects
that could influence downstream audio components.
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l of it
will be exactly correct at the receiving end due to many layers of
error detection and correction in the data transmission protocols.
Look elsewhere to improve audio quality.
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dless of the room treatments.
> Ergo, the room hardly matters, if at all.
Sorry, but you're wrong:
http://www.audioholics.com/education/acoustics-principles/listening-room-acoustics
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A matching subwoofer to extend audio response down to 30 Hz will give
more listening pleasure than any of those other changes.
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This is an important video to understand how human hearing works. We
hear with our brain, not with our ears.
Important takeaways: Hearing can be steered. Expectation bias
influences perception.
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nt looks is as important as how it sounds. And if something is
more expensive, it has to be better, right? Put the Touch hardware in a
Transporter-like case, double or triple the price, and audiophiles would
be a lot happier with it.
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you upgrade, they also do subwoofers
>
> http://www.sightandsounduk.com/ATC-SCM-20-SL-Bookshelf-Speakers.html
Agree on GIGO; that's why I have a Transporter. A matching subwoofer
for your system to get bass response down to 30 Hz will give you more
listening pleasure than endless t
SBGK;681312 Wrote:
> this from someone who spent $3000 on a subwoofer
>
> Physician heal thyself
>
> that is funny
It works great out of the box. Matches well with my high-end speakers.
No endless, complusive tweaking required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive–compulsive_disorder
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> be the last yard.
>
> Wouldn't that work better?
Take the $30K, buy fantastic speakers, and forget nonsense tweaks.
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> Ubuntu server will be the base.
FYI, VortexBox 2.0 is built on Fedora 16 with the 3.1 Linux kernel
— hardly an "old kernel".
And what is a "stiff system"?
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ner's "Audio Myths
Workshop" has a good explanation for this phenomenon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ
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http://www.logitech.com/images/pdf/userguides/eng/Logitech_Transporter-ENG.pdf
See page 26.
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http://www.whathifi.com/review/sonus-faber-cremona-auditor-m
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of money on speaker wire may give you pride of ownership
but it isn't going to give you better sound quality.
Owning a Rolex watch may make you feel good and impress your friends,
but it won't tell time any better than a $20 Timex.
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nd our beliefs. Little
> Audiophile Sheep...doing as the Audiophile Shepherds command.
Spot on. If you haven't already seen it, check out the video "Audio
Myths Workshop" which explains the expectation bias that's built into
our brains, and which we cannot turn off:
http
;d be be very surprised if you could hear any differences between the
QED Genesis and the Blue Jeans Belden 5T00UP in a blind test.
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l, I'm skeptical about "burn in", even for speakers and
> headphones. What do you guys think?
A Sonus Faber rep came to my place to adjust speaker placement on my
new Stradivaris; he said the sound would get better with use. I have
no reason to doubt
aker wire for
their custom installations.
Anyone tempted to buy high-cost speaker wire should read this article:
http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm
See http://www.roger-russell.com/ for info on the author's credentials.
al change but goes some way to explaining the
> difference between the two camps in the audiophile vs. objectivist
> debate.
>
Exactly. Ingesting a mind-altering substance (alcohol, drugs) can
change the perception, with no physical change in the stimulus, be it
sight, sound, smell,
le TV cable to fix the problem.
The Jensen VRD-1FF Cable TV Ground Loop Isolator is a good choice.
http://www.jensen-transformers.com/index.html
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I'm using a Parasound Halo A23 with a Transporter, using the balanced
inputs, to drive Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor speakers. Love the sound!
Very sharp-looking amp.
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er to hang:
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I use a Parasound Halo A-23 amp, fed by a Transporter, to power my Sonus
Faber Cremona Auditor speakers. The sound quality is superb, but the
amp isn't cheap ($949 USD).
http://parasound.com/halo/a23.php
http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAHA23
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Maker?
If not, then where are they?
...Shaking my head, looking for that glass of cabernet...I'm beginning
to suspect that audiophilia is a religion or a mental disorder...
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Where is ABX testing when you need it??? Personally, I think the music
on my system sounds better when I'm drinking a nice glass of Cabernet...
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bPowerAmp or RipStation Micro.
>
> I still think there are things unclear under all of this. So many
> various results is not satisfying for mind...
...but likely none of this results in any audible differences, so why
worry about it? It's about the music,
ecommended as a viable alternative to the $49.99 Jensen
transformer.
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/rf/index.htm
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The Audio Critic: http://www.theaudiocritic.com
Reviews of gear and music, and insightful commentary with no BS. See
the back issues for a great discussion about the fraud of expensive
speaker wire:
http://www.theaudiocritic.com/back_issues/The_Audio_Critic_16_r.pdf
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pping."
Fudged leading edges sound delicious, Are these different from
chocolate-covered leading edges? :-)
Could someone tell me what "tempos dragged" means? Maybe the
Transporter clock was running a little slow? :-)
Ahhh... subjective reviews; love
nd tell you if (and where) they
differ.
If cmp says the files are identical, there's no need for a listening
test.
Case REALLY closed.
And anyone who thinks two identical audio files can sound different is
operating in an alternate reality where the laws of logic and
elieved that I
> could sound inside my home that was nearly as good as a live concert.
>
> -Ben
Dunno, Ben; I bet the single biggest improvement was getting those
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See
http://theaudiocritic.com/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=33&blogId=1
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ility of
> running my DVD/Blueray player thru it as well at a savings of a few
> hundred dollars over the Transporter.
>
> Am I missing something?
I think your money would be better spent by upgrading your speakers.
Putting a $1000+ DAC into a system with $550 (US
ssell.com/wire/wire.htm and Peter Aczel's article:
http://theaudiocritic.com/back_issues/The_Audio_Critic_16_r.pdf (p. 37)
before spending big bucks on speaker cable.
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resistance low. Expensive
speaker wire is like a Rolex watch: there is pride and prestige of
ownership, but it doesn't function any better than alternatives that
are far cheaper.
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I'm skeptical that speaker cables can make an audible difference, too.
But if you're going to try something, check out
http://anticables.com/home.html; it could save you a lot of money.
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totoro;177735 Wrote:
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> not a native English speaker.
> -
> Some people consider that internal resampling (transparent in my
> opinion) is treating unfairly musepack and would biased any listenin
person's observations, but the results were arrived at
in a scientific, statistically significant manner.
Far better than having one person comment on the sound of a particular
setup when they know what they are listening to, and they hav
x27;ve went up to 50 trials in
order to reach again satisfying pval."
Note: pval, in ABX testing, is the probability that the results of the
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P Floding;177719 Wrote:
> Eh, what was that link anyway?
> After a quick peek it looks like a massive subjective evaluation..
...done in an ABX blind fashion...
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I trust the accuracy of these findings, but wouldn't if they were just
subjective opinions not arrived at in a blind fashion.
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Thanks for the link, Eric. Lots of interesting stuff in these back
issues that resonates with my own sense of what's important and what's
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And some more words of wisdom about what's important in sound quality:
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