Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASURMENTS: Speaker Cables - Canare, Kimber, and the "Frankenstein"

2015-06-21 Thread ralphpnj
Wow Archimago, yet another great blog post with lots of sand being kicked into various faces in the audiophile world. However what really impresses me is your choice of audio equipment, which for the most part appears to be from manufacturers whose main focus is producing well made, superbly engin

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASURMENTS: Speaker Cables - Canare, Kimber, and the "Frankenstein"

2015-06-17 Thread Mnyb
The best thing with this measurment is that it's really done "in situ" you can clearly see that virtually nothing about the sound changes in the listening position . Some crackpot would still come with the argument that the measurment signal is not "music" (fourier anyone ) . Then just use a whol

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASURMENTS: Speaker Cables - Canare, Kimber, and the "Frankenstein"

2015-06-15 Thread Julf
Mike Sargent wrote: > Don't worry. Although they will have your name, address and a photo, > that's empirical evidence which they won't believe. Eventually, one of > them will point to a fire hydrant and say "I think that's him!" where > upon they will string that poor hapless hydrant up and tar

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASURMENTS: Speaker Cables - Canare, Kimber, and the "Frankenstein"

2015-06-15 Thread Mike Sargent
Julf wrote: > Well done! You do realize that one day there will be a bunch of > "industry representatives" at your door, joined by huge crowds of > audiophiles with torches and pitchforks... Don't worry. Although they will have your name, address and a photo, that's empirical evidence which they

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASURMENTS: Speaker Cables - Canare, Kimber, and the "Frankenstein"

2015-06-15 Thread Julf
Well done! You do realize that one day there will be a bunch of "industry representatives" at your door, joined by huge crowds of audiophiles with torches and pitchforks... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery wil

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASURMENTS: Speaker Cables - Canare, Kimber, and the "Frankenstein"

2015-06-14 Thread Archimago
Ladies and gents. I give you measurements with speaker cables. I trust this time folks cannot complain that I did not at least try an audiophile-approved set of wires :-). As usual, I suggest that any "believer" show me some data to indicate that reasonable speaker cables make a difference beyond