1.For me it does apply in all cases I've tried so far.
2.I don't need to prove anything to anyone about my hearing or my definition of "good ears".....I'm paying for my things😀
3.Good🙂
I didn't say all that. I said that you need working ears to hear. No working ears - no hear. Simple.😉
Well, you have a hell of a convoluted way to imply this, because you said that ears are more important than brains for hearing....
Anyway, my point was that all those differences that are 'heard' conciously are much more dependent on how the brain works than on differences between ears. If you indeed accept my second para, well, this is it. 😉
Edit: Re: my 2nd para: I'm not making stuff up here. This is part and parcel of current scientific insight, easy to check within half an hour on the 'net. Just trying to save you some time. What I would hate is someone coming back saying they don't agree because 'I don't think it works that way'. I would hope any reply would be a bit more intelligent ....
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I just finished reading an article in November's "audio Xpress by Ed Simon" where he builds a distortion meter to check out cable connectors. His results are summarized as follows
"Soldered connections are 50 times better than the best plain mechanical connectors"
" Gold mating to gold work best"
"Shiny (chrome nickel) connectors mating to gold are not as good when clean and newly inserted but become worse within hours"
"Shiny plugged into shiny is not as good as gold on gold"
"Some gold cords made for audio and video were horrible"
"putting a surge through a cable lowers the distortion for a time but it comes back.(maybe the needle drop noise was good for hifi?)"
oh yeah he does have results for reversing cables too!
I can see now a new preamp, dac, power amp, cd player etc that features solder pins instead of RCA jacks.
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"Soldered connections are 50 times better than the best plain mechanical connectors"
" Gold mating to gold work best"
"Shiny (chrome nickel) connectors mating to gold are not as good when clean and newly inserted but become worse within hours"
"Shiny plugged into shiny is not as good as gold on gold"
"Some gold cords made for audio and video were horrible"
"putting a surge through a cable lowers the distortion for a time but it comes back.(maybe the needle drop noise was good for hifi?)"
oh yeah he does have results for reversing cables too!
I can see now a new preamp, dac, power amp, cd player etc that features solder pins instead of RCA jacks.
another diy project
Hi,
It's well known that RCA connectors (cinch) are not the best audio connectors and can be a source of distortion and loss of detail.
Ciao, 😉
It's well known that RCA connectors (cinch) are not the best audio connectors and can be a source of distortion and loss of detail.
Ciao, 😉
Dimensions is one reason imo.Those of you who have SME arms with the 4-pin(old) plug will notice that the + wires are connected on the thick pins and the
- wires on the thin pins.Resolder them with the + wires on the thin pins and the - wires on the thick pins.It is a worthwile improvement-not just difference-.
Edit:Resolder on both the arm and connector of course
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Interesting thought. The example you give (top end) would probably not trigger the imagination as much as say stereo imaging.
On descriptions, I am a lot happier with people who describe the qualities of the gear such as brightness etc, as apposed to those who describe how the sound makes them feel. Like, "that doesn't emotionally engage me with the music" or "the emotion is gone" If they said it was too bright or rolled off at least I would know what to look for.
If a cable has a top end lift that effects instruments on say left channel,unavoidably stereo imaging will "move" probably more on the left side,while a more "correctly" balanced cable will allow the stereo imaging to "move" more between the speakers.Tonal balance is imo important for stereo image
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ALL This time i thought if i hung the cables from the ceiling i would not have a problem with balance LOL!!
It maybe a separate process but you can't tap into the ear itself before it passes the information onto the brain. Everything you hear has been processed.
Try it and hung them.Then advice your customers to do the same.Check your sales at the end of the year.A good way to see if your customers are suckers😀
That was not-as you may have already understood-what I meant.A "bright" cable can effect one channel more,for the simple reason that the other channel does not contain frequencies/instruments where the cable "problem" is.Most stereo music is like that.....in my country😀 In these cases,unavoidably the imaging will move towards one channel,unless of course your system can't reproduce correctly those frequencies anyway........
Of course they are........ for me 😀
As many engineers here would say,everything in the chain is copper.It is the one silver cable that will make the difference? 🙂
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I haven't done such a test yet,but it would be interresting to check it.What I have done though was to compare two different interconnects(1M pairs)and after I have prefered one of them,I have compared that one with an identical one but 2M pair.The 2M pair was not at all worse than the 1M pair as engineering side would think,nor they had any big difference between them.Both however were better than the other type interconnect.Strange isn't it?
But,if this answers your question,I have tried 3 different headshell wires and heard differences using my mc cartridge.
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