the signal flows through connectors, copper and silver wires, copper/lead?/tin on circuit boards, passive and semiconductor parts, but it is the silver wire than makes the audio music softer sounding = how can that be Dr. Einstein?
Your infatuation with silver wire and teflon boards is remarkable, cheers to you.
I do ask, what else was "was lost in the firestorm of '91", some common sense maybe?
Lemme try: "Change one part, all else being equal"
I hear edits that I don´t like. Cymbal tails are very unforgiving towards the less careful engineers.
I disliked this vocal edit. It is an artistic flaw, not a technical one, but it's a flaw nonetheless. At the 1:20 mark.
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Probably AC powered heaters I am assuming and the use of EI cores that are really bad wrt EM radiation. The tube guys seem to be able to tolerate very high hum levels and still enjoy the sound
(although my opera loving neighbor, who I discovered is also a Hifi nut, won’t have tube gear because he says it hums) I use a small 1.5 VA potted EI as a standby PSU and got an annoying hum (-90 dB on the QA401). I had to reroute some of the wiring to get rid of it.
Yes you are, but it does not mean that you are necessarily right. You are famous in a fashion business, High End audio is a fashion business and it has similar audience as magicians show. It is very far from science, scientific approach. However, it is your choice. Maybe you just would not need to boast on every possible occasion.
The tube guys seem to be able to tolerate very high hum levels and still enjoy the sound
You can certainly solve the hum issues...
Many of Michael Fremer's vinyl rips sound amazing in my system and he probably used tube gear in all these videos (see the channel Analog Planet on youtube).
I believe his MC amp uses a step up transformer though. In one of the videos he mentioned using this TEA-8695PCS Phono Equalizer Amplifier
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Whenever I feel like a scare, I look at the wiring, especially the grounding, of my tube gears. Some of them are famous brands, others I built myself, most have P2P wiring, and all of them are a horrifying MESS!
I still prefer these over any solid state gears I have, or have been loan.
Change of electrical properties could be related to change in microstructure of the conductor wire over time and usage. I would be astonished if the change is not measurable. I'd like to have some of the great wire too, but the current OFC wire and OCC silver wire are really good enough, hard to find any application that needs a sizable quantity of better wire to finance more detail studies.
You're probably right, if you stay within the common (restrictive) definition of "science": "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe"
But sometimes, in order to advance the current state of the practice, we have to move beyond the known boundaries. Then maybe we can call it "philosophy", as in PhD. A high school teacher I had once called it "the sum of all sciences".
Good one. I would be astonished if there wasn't a measurable change in his hearing over the years
The birds nest of ground wires can be like a ground plane
Better than a ground plane: a ground mesh!
John, you have an interesting discovery. So there is a still unexplained phenomenon that would make the material itself of an electrical conductor affect the signals it transmits, without any of the ways of measurement at our disposal can measure the causes and the effects?
... And that, apart the phenomena of oxidation that can change its conductivity, the simple fact that an electrical conductor is submitted to a current flow produce a change in its physical structure, witch is proportional to the time it is exposed to this flow ?
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I asked to random people in the street. It seems Tintin and I are more famous than you. ;-)
However, some people told me that I did not exist. This left me in great perplexity.
Yes, I’d say Tin Tin is more famous than JC. Famous all over Europe and lots of other places but it seems not in the USA.
I still page through the Tin Tin books and I am supposed to be an adult
I agree - it’s all in the execution.
I still page through the Tin Tin books and I am supposed to be an adult
I agree - it’s all in the execution.
......will it ever end?
Several remarks on this tune.
The overall response curve was over-corrected with added highs. This will sound better on systems of average quality, painful on systems favoring this band of frequencies. A commercial choice, not artistic. It is also possible that the monitors used during the mixing lacked treble ?
At 1.20, we actually notice a sudden increase in the low-mid level on his voice. Did she approach the microphone? Or is it a potentiometer move a bit too brutal ?
Not very bad, though ?
Here the digital version: YouTube
Those youtube recordings are perfect to enlighten the differences between Digital and analog.
The drums, like the "bump" guitar are smoothly mashed in the space on the vinyl. Less relief. The instruments are wider, less precise.
It is obvious that the increase of the treeble has been added by the vinyl mastering engineer: it is softer on the digital version.
Strangely, on the digital version, I'm less annoyed at 1:20. A difference in the response curve that is never flat on vinyls ?
I noticed, too, that the tails of the voice's reverberation are longer and smoother in the vinyl version. Vinyl drags or lack of digital ?
As I have never seen such a phenomenon in the studios with digital copies of a master mix, I tend to look for the first hypothesis.
Over all, and apart the little annoyance of the treebles, I tend to prefer the vinyl rendering on this specific tune. Smoother, silkier. >But ... less faithful. Vinyl can bring a plus. But it's a contribution.
Not at all. Tintin is an institution. Published both in the Tintin magazine and in luxurious albums.
Pif and Hercule were characters of a cartoon printed in the newspaper "L'Humanité" published by the communist party. That had a limited audience at this time (cold war: 20% ) and near no audience today (Berlin wall: 4,3 %).
Seems JC still does not have enough interest to find relevant measurement, perhaps you will have better luck asking PMA, simon7000 or KSTR.
A cold drawn copper conductor change its tensile strength and conductivity over time while a properly annealed one will exhibit less of a change. I have seen no study with relevant electrical properties measurement on effect of current flow, EM field, thermal cycling, grain size, fatigue, break in procedure or others in wires.
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