No! They are not.
The speaker cable used is the famous Transparent Opus, some 20k. It has a a passive circuit inside a black box! Surfing at the web I found this pic of one on their circuits, but I do not know of what model.
This is in the speaker cable!!!
The lack of treble is evident in the system 1, worse is the lack of bass, no bass under 50Hz, this was one of the worst systems I have ever heard in my life, I think there is something wrong with it, these components can not make this POS sound.
I do not believe a speaker cable can make a real improvement with a system, but maybe it can degrade it a lot. Why a passive circuit in a cable?
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Even into low impedance tweeters 2.5 uH shouldn't be enough to cause such a dramatic roll-off. At a rough estimate it's in the range of a single six foot strand of 16 gauge wire. I wouldn't discount the ralphed driver theory:
Wilson Audio Specialties MAXX Series 3 loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Which is still pretty funny in a system worth a couple Ferraris.
One of them costs much more than the other, and even the cheaper one is more than many of us have invested in our current system - but not of course counting the expenses accrued in getting to that point.
Sometimes it can cost a bit of money to get to be as cheap as we are! The system that's playing in the room cost me just a bit more than $100. However, it was built using the knowledge gained over the last 40 years, a bit of luck and some work as well.
That's just the way it is up here in Cascadia!
Best Regards,
Terry
If I can make a suggestion to some of you...create a Audio Club in your area. Meeting and interacting with like-minded people that have varied talents and experience may take you further than you could have imagined. It's a great way to meet people who share your interest and like to share their thoughts with you.
Every time I look at mega-$ speakers the two things I see is that their design is usually visually-jarring in proportion to the price, and the finish quality is often quite high, even if the aesthetics of it give me spasms.
Perhaps we are seeing large amounts of money being spent to make weird-looking things sound decent. After all, what's the point of spending $50,000 on speakers if it isn't obvious to the proles that they're looking at something terribly special?
By the same token, with DIY I find that whatever goes into the guts, you either spend as much money and several times as much time on the housing, or it looks like a bundle of parts stuffed in a shoebox.
Perhaps we are seeing large amounts of money being spent to make weird-looking things sound decent. After all, what's the point of spending $50,000 on speakers if it isn't obvious to the proles that they're looking at something terribly special?
By the same token, with DIY I find that whatever goes into the guts, you either spend as much money and several times as much time on the housing, or it looks like a bundle of parts stuffed in a shoebox.
None of my speakers are works of art and there have been a few that didn't sound as nice as I had hoped. But my best efforts could give TOTL Speakers a very decent run for the money by general opinion. I'll stop here, but if anyone that has heard my speakers wants comment on them, they're certainly welcome to.
I also have a nice boat, big enough for a helicopter.
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Bodywork of the Cadillac Allanté was manufactured in Italy, flown over to the assembly line in the US in a 747.
Overhere it was a joke of a car, due to taxation the last model had an msrp of $150,000.- (1993)
None takers.
Transparent audio also offers 8ft of interlink for $150.
The schmucks who buy the $33k cables are pleased they have the best of the range, even if it's only cosmetics.
Fact of life, why continue to upset yourself by it ?
Might as well get irritated by multi-$K (butt ugly) design cell phones with outdated specs by guys who suck on the heritage of their supercar manufacturer dad.
LOL, perhaps I should join them.
I do have an interesting trick up my sleeve, work is in progress on T&M results, then I can make sensible/honest claims without resorting to marketing speak BS.
$20K++ for a cable set with proofs...let me at it.
Nah, I aim to sell 1,000,000 times their quantity with resultant 1000 times their NP.
Dan.
No doubt, in my mind, that the wealthy people, who purchase the most expensive equipment, have, the least amount of experience and education, in hi end audio.. They are the perfect Target, for selling toys, with exorbitant price tags with zero performance value..
-If a guy earns $200K per year, his system price is $X, say $60K
-$1million income, system price is $X, maybe $200K
-etc
-etc
Getting the most performance for the money, is not always a criteria..
IME, expensive cables as filters has been the Gag, for the last 20 years or more.. "treble is smoother with this $3k cable, I'll take it" The real issue with the treble, lies somewhere in the equipment..
-If a guy earns $200K per year, his system price is $X, say $60K
-$1million income, system price is $X, maybe $200K
-etc
-etc
Getting the most performance for the money, is not always a criteria..
IME, expensive cables as filters has been the Gag, for the last 20 years or more.. "treble is smoother with this $3k cable, I'll take it" The real issue with the treble, lies somewhere in the equipment..
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It is IMHO important that those with big bucks are given the chance to spend them big times. If this money rests on their bank accounts instead of being spent no one else will profit from it.
And ist is always better if the rich guys are being ripped off (and are at the same time made to feel great) than the poor ones.
Regards
Charles
And ist is always better if the rich guys are being ripped off (and are at the same time made to feel great) than the poor ones.
Regards
Charles
Repeating this from another thread in case you missed it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQDTZcpsDE#t=33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQDTZcpsDE#t=33
It's been proven that no matter what the rich do with their sponds, only THEY benefit from it...... and poor people are just as prone to buying 'not so good stuff' as the rich, they just buy cheaper 'not so good stuff'.
Ignorance is BLIND - and bliss
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So, Hitler was a 'Flat Earther'
Tell that to the thousands of high-skilled blue-collar workers at Gulfstream or yards that build yachts, all the coachbuilders and mechanics at exotic-car manufacturers, or contractors who build these palatial homes and all the stuff that goes into them.
All of these silly audiophoolery gewgaws probably create a fair number of decent skilled trade jobs for the people who manufacture the stuff.
My real issue with the ultra-ultra rich isn't when they use their money to buy stuff, it's when they use their money to buy power.
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