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fas42

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jneutron said:
The manufacturer's measurements are usually performed on a test bench using extremely well designed test equipment, so bench results cannot indicate the level to which the equipment design is susceptible to ground loops. If the equipment is susceptible to them, then measurement in situ will be required to see the actual performance at the user's location with the user's equipment.
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A lot of the real work has to be done in the area of making conventional audio equipment extremely robust in the face of the "other factors" - I spent much time grappling with this over the years, and have to say that I've found no easy answers - the engineering has to step up quite a few notches, in the intrinsic implementation - and who is going to spend the money?
 
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Tailor made to suit only one?

fas42 said:
My take is also that the ear/brain combo does all the magic to recreate the experience - but the brain has only so much tolerance. Mix in too much unrelated material, distortion, and the brain makes an, unconscious, decision to reject what it has to process, as not "being worth the effort" - the sound is judged as poor. And there's a halfway house, where most audio replay is, where the brain has to work hard to sort things out - you can force it to some degree - and leads to the infamous "listener fatigue".

Luckily, on the other side of the coin, there is a point, at least for some people, where the level of disturbing, non-message related content drops sufficiently that the brain goes into a freeflowing, effortless mode of digesting what it picks up, and the message sent to your consciousness is that the sound is 'real'. The trick, therefore, is to advance the 'quality' of the sound to that point, where the trigger goes off in your head and the sound is soaked up by the hearing system without "niggles" ...
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I wonder now if there isn't some kind of distortions that are more or less tolerable to different listeners.
Recently bought a used equalizer to help out with room tuning a sub woofer, and naturally goofed around with it on main speakers.
For me, dropping the 4 kHz slider 4 db made every pair of speakers I have more relaxing to listen to.
My girlfriend prefers the 12,000 hz slider down 6 db.
My point is : we may all have different sensitivities to different kinds of distortions.
There may never be one garment to suit all emperors or empresses.
 
fas42

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It's the high frequency distortion which is the worst offender, subjectively - if you pull a good chunk of the frequency range there it will sound immediately better, if it reduces the level of that nastiness. Trouble is, a lot of the impact and intensity of sound is tied to that area working properly - so many 'high end' systems sound "wet", they have no guts to the sound, because of that.

It's a fine balance getting rid of that distortion, but the "magic" that results if you do it successfully is worth it ... :)
 
nezbleu

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fas42 said:
...the brain has only so much tolerance. Mix in too much unrelated material, distortion, and the brain makes an, unconscious, decision to reject what it has to process, as not "being worth the effort" - the sound is judged as poor. And there's a halfway house, where most audio replay is, where the brain has to work hard to sort things out - you can force it to some degree - and leads to the infamous "listener fatigue".
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It must be interesting to have a brain which has a mind of it's own, which has "likes" and "dislikes".
 
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DavidL said:
BYBEE-CURL HOLOGRAPHIC POWER SOURCE
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The Bybee-Curl Holographic Power Source is being introduced to the market in early 2014. This product incorporates technology and design from multiple entities. It uses John Curl design and engineering; plus includes an AC Module which is Bybee Technologies filtering technology and a crystal technology that makes air molecules more compliant. The results are a power source that is unsurpassed on the market. It truly makes the listening area 3 dimensional, increasing the sonics and staging like no other device.
MSRP: $5495 (see pricing note below)


Nice John real nice :rolleyes:
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when i see products like this, i ask myself what kind of brainfart or diarrhea i´m looking at

sorry to be rude but.. what the hell
 
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scott wurcer

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a.wayne said:
I was told these are a different animal ,nothing like the originals....
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I'm waiting, what do YOU think? I wouldn't mind listening myself, but I wouldn't waste the time unless it was with true believers and associated equipment of their choice. BTW forget the sound, I do have problems with the military secrets shell game and corresponding global availability, this is just plain dishonesty that everyone just ignores.

Even caught JC laughing a little (ebay = potential security leak).
 
a.wayne

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Haven't heard them personally, so no input, I have spoken to others and can only repeat what they have said, after i asked why spend 5K on them. Basically after spending 200-350K on their Hi-fi system, 5K is a deal for the improvements noted, the difference is enuff to justify the purchase and considered a bargain when you have reached such a high resolution.

Bybee allows 30days or money back , they all paid after the try out ...
 
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