Well said Howie. I feel the only person you need to please is you. In my room and with my system I only have one critical voice I respond too, mine!
I want to see Fremer in a "A Clockwork Orange" style double blind test, testing MoFi records !
I mostly listen to the Statements these days, they are more forgiving of not so great recordings.
My gawd. That's insane.Martin Logan Statement E2's are in the back of the room, second set of Statement sub towers are dialed in with the MBL's.
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Surprising. In digital, especially streaming, addition of Switch, Dc filters and linear power supply are mandatory. I was very dissatisfied of listenings with streamer, all these addition erased the gap between streaming and CD/SACD or DSD downloaded.
To the best of my knowledge, you are exactly right. Presumably because accessories are perhaps more likely to adhere to inferior (as opposed to superior) designs, materials, methods, executions, etc. But for some reason it seems many just assume what they acquire must be of the superior flavor - or they wouldn't have acquired it???
Nowadays, I am very hesitant to say anything does not and/or cannot make a difference.
In that little trial period where I was experimenting, I did have to rank the Radio Shack interconnects, last (in my main system). Those blue interconnects from Acoustic Research (also cheap) had a presentation I much preferred (although I was not impressed with the plugs they used). I do still have and use them in an upstairs system. My Radio Shack solid core DIY's sound maybe a smidge better than the aforementioned blue cables (but not so much between pre and power amp). It's got me wondering about trying out silver conductors. And, I am no longer skeptical about cable reviews.
It is hard to say for sure what causes this, but I am sure we can all say that we have the same experience. It is all very subjective of course and there are factors in our ears that we also possibly don't realize. I suspect it has more to do with AC mains power quality than anything else. I recall an article by Steve Deckert of Decware, where he discussed the fact that the AC mains grid is different at different times of the day, based on power load, etc. Also, the power company can adjust the AC frequency slightly. All of these things could change things in your system with no other variables changed.
I agree that power is different every day. From quiet mow harmonics to bad AC from the electric company (harmonics and modified sine wave that induce hum of power transformers), this is first order impact on music.
Say, wasn’t Fremer the target of an Amazing Randi Million Dollar Challenge. I think he was. Randi and Fremer were negotiating a cable shoot out, I believe it was the $20,000 Kimber Cables vs Monster Cable, something like that. A very elaborate controlled blind test was being negotiated. Of course, Randi’s money was safe in any sort of test since, you know, Randi can control the outcome.There was another Amazing Randi Million Dollar Challenge in the works before that for the intelligent Chip but both those negotiations broke down and never went to completion.I want to see Fremer in a "A Clockwork Orange" style double blind test, testing MoFi records !
It all depends on what you call the signal. In audio cables the propagation speed of the free electrons, the things that carry the charge, is only about one meter per hour, whereas the electromagnetic wave that pushes the electrons travels at near lightspeed. furthermore, since these are AC circuits we‘re talking about, the net velocity of electrons is zero. The same goes for the electromagnetic wave.
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