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I'm not sure why my DAC cut out, other than it's a short. Meanwhile, I am listening exclusively to vinyl, as opposed to mostly vinyl. I sure wish I had FM, but no sense worrying about that in these parts, not to mention all the records I'...
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The idea of a driver/speaker that "sorts out" noise and "puts it in its place" is very interesting! But perhaps we are thinking wrongly about how this might be done? As far as doing it earlier in the "reproduction" chain, I do know a version of thi...
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It is 75F in Boston, unseasonably warm. I got home today and it is 68F in my listening room and 75F outside, it is sign that spring came and you know what Cats do in march – you are right - getting horny on open air Bruckner listening. So that what ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The wider question is very interesting: if we need to make any design provisions in case we know that our audio is powered by “good sounding electricity”.[/quote]This is an interesting question. There is no question in my ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you consider APS PurePower as just a power treating or regenerating devise then I feel that the whole “kinky” point of this devise might be missed. We get horrible sound with bad electricity and we are accusto...
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Anyone familiar with these? http://www.vertexaq.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ I heard a demo @ RMAF; without, with, without again... Very effective. In that place, At that time, with that system, etc. Part ...
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Claude Debussy, Three Nocturnes (Triptych); Printemps; 1st Rhapsodie for Orchestra with Solo Clarinet;Pierre Boulez conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, with the John Aldis Choir, and Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Columbia (stereo) M30483So ...
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This year marks the first serious inroads of the new "Smart Grid" system around here. Blah, blah, blah, blah...What this has meant in terms of hi-fi is fewer really bad days - and fewer really good days. Since I've taken care of VTA my basis has go...
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[quote user="manisandher"] Well this is what I was struggling with. Will cheater plugs truly isolate your playback from the PP2000 if the Neutral is still shared between your playback and the PP2000? Of course, if your own ground is not bonded to the...
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Decoud, this is a delayed response to your most recent post in this thread (posted 11-14-11): Indeed, why is it "beneficial" to add DC/AC to a battery only to rectify it again? This has never made sense to me, except with my fuzzy "theory" that the P...
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Hello all , i know this topic is almost about pp experience but since im experimenting with electricity i like to share some thoughts here . I builded a dac using very high quality components . As you know the power supply is critical . So i decided ...
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[quote user="steverino"]Romy, Even you do not believe that the Pure Power device is a panacea. If you did you wouldn't have spent thousands of dollars , hundreds of hours and hundreds of posts here trying to figure out why it didn't work properly str...
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It is very interesting and I truly can’t get it. Sound in my room is basically the same only now it is not act as some kind of proverbial cloud in the room but rather glues itself to the room walls. Before the event in the room were unfolded in front...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]the “sound” of these oscillators/inverters is something
that describes the sound of electricity. Tesla for sure would make great batteries
but I do not think that they would case to make oscillators “good for sound”.[/quo...
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It's interesting that the most variation is in the upper bass, lower midrange. By eyeball,the peaks look like 240 and 480 Hz. or about the 2nd and 3rd harmonic of 60 Hz., although there is only a slight peak at 60. Is that a fluke or related to some...
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[quote user="rowuk"]Do we simply not want a non-changing target? As regeneration does not seem to be „the“ solution (especially if the AC cord behind the regenerator changes bass), what does better AC even mean?Perhaps the designers of great equipmen...
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It's been some time since I've listened to my hi-fi. Today I started out with my DAC because I wanted to hear a new (to me) CD. After about 2 hours I switched to the K&K, listening first to Verde, then Brahms PCs 1 & 2. By the time I got to the 3r...
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The way I remember it, before the good electricity the Solti/VPO LP performance seemed to move too quickly to "a certain spot", in terms of dynamics, and it did not seem to move off that spot enough on the appropriate occasions thereafter. With the e...
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I touched on local electricity problems in a recent electricity post. Briefly, the local nuclear plant has been shut down by concerned politicians after "leaks" were detected. Setting aside mutated flora and fauna, sound has been worse more of the ...
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The cool thing is how Lamm figured out how to get one's attention off the window, albeit, apparently, through a fairly didactic program of "organizing", "correcting" and/or "mitigating" certain information he realized contributed to that particular d...
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1. The less we have to fill in for the brain to reconstruct the original event, the better it will sound. This has been proven by psychologists for all of our senses. The closer to reality the sensation is, the less the brain has to work, the more re...
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In a post at his K&K Forum, designer/builder Kevin Carter referred to this phono stage as a "listening tool", and I basically agree with that terse assessment.I think I have messed around with this unit enough now to get it "strategically".S...
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Romy, as you can see, I have never wrote that these parasitic sounds depend ONLY on the quality of the drivers. It is quite obvious they depend on many many many other things (practically everything) as for example bad microphones, bad microphone cab...
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I had my best-to-date listening sessions this year, but still 2008 has been a mixed bag for me. I did get pretty much what I was aiming for, or rather I did on those occasions when the electricity happened to be decent....
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I wish I had other sources for reference, since it's obvious (even to me) that the amps will only sound as good as what they are fed (and what they feed). I think I still have my old CD player around, somewhere, while I wait for my iD...
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[quote user="N-set"]Sorry for being naive, but may gathering spectral fingerprints of the electricityduring bad and good days give something? Perhaps after N samples some pattern might emerge, although I guess nobody knows what to look for.[/quote]Ac...
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Rakesh, Equi=Tech is a know player in the fields of audio electricity. Back in 2001-2002 I had 3 of the Equi=Tech transformers. I was not pleased with results. I do not like the balanced operation for power lines – in my view it does something with h...
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Joaco, thanks for sharing. We still do not know what make those units to sound to sound good, so in a way we are shooting in dark. I have no doubts that there is great number of commercial units out there, similar to APS PurePower, which might be su...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Well, I thought I'd heard some nice hi-fi at times in the past, but this is something else, altogether! As the new 6AK5s burn in the amps have become truly uncanny music makers. The "highs" are now such that it has be...
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Well, Yoshi, at least you're on your way to getting your speakers more of a piece.I have for some time warned people against a mix-n-match approach with the DEBZs, based on my early experiments with them, and it is true enough to say, I think, that&n...
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