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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    The adverse effects of eddy current do diminish with distances. But the minimum safe distance is far greater than you think. I have personally witnessed different degrees how sound changes by placing (the same) metallic object at varying distances from an audio component on test. A smallish...
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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    You totally forgot the elephant in the room. The audio system in the room is the source of those magnetic fields.
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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    Long ago I was experimenting with wrapping cd discs with aluminium foil (and found 2 distinctively different sonic consequences depending on whether the glossy side or the matt side of the aluminium foil was in contact with the disc) when I unwittingly discovered leaving the used aluminium foil...
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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    What has happened to this post?
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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    As I mentioned previously, the issue with CDs (in large quantities) accumulated in the same room as your audio system, affecting the system's audio quality is a magnetic field interference problem. Even a single piece of CD disc (if placed very near an audio component) can also bring about some...
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    Playback Designs MPD-8

    On the MPS-8, when the unused inputs are switched off, there are discernible sonic improvements.
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    Why Ray Kimber does not check and label his TC line of cables (4, 8, 12) and educate all his distributors/dealers accordingly?
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    ST Optical and TOSLINK cables are directional - why is the Meitner family the last to know this?
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    Fuse and Cable Directionality

    the USB-C connector has directionality - please, please, never ever make a DAC with UB-C input......
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    Japanese Pressings

    Music recorded by US label/artistes sound better on vinyl pressings manufactured in the label/artistes' home country/continent - most people agree. What about doing the reverse? Get hold of music recorded by Japanese label/artistes on vinyl pressings manufactured in Japan and compare them...
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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    the clear plastic wrappings we place our vinyl records into can accumulate electric static charge. they can audibly affect sound of audio components nearby, although i have heard it, i have not tried experimenting enough to be able to describe the characteristics of their influence more in...
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    Does Everything Make a Difference?

    That why no good keep cd and vinyl in the same room
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    record clamps/weights......

    after hearing this cheap plastic thing, i never want to use metallic clamps anymore
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    Why does my TV sound more real?

    the sony bravia oled tv => "....speaker is the screen of the TV..." ??? the sound is being emitted from the TV screen? the TV screen is the transducer that reproduce the sound? what are the frequency response of this tv screen transducer? my guess: from 150hz to 15kHz. So wouldn't it be...

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