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    I am a luddite - in other words Mains Cable

    Gary Koh designs speakers and amplifiers, and has discussed in the past aspects of mains and amplifier issues (although not necessarily power cables in the way you would like as a complete answer). Cheers Orb
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    Reference TT suggestions for those who can't afford SOTA!

    Yeah I am a big fan of SME turntables, great engineering for the price and built exceptionally well, clean sound. Cheers Orb
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    Adele 25

    Yeah with you on that! the reviewer has great insight and would be superb if expanded to a few other good genres, I guess we just have to settle for the more day-to-day segments they do for anything that touches a bit outside of pop/R&B. Cheers Orb
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    Adele 25

    I love following this person's site as they review various voices, including many of the women mention in the last week such as the underrated Anita Baker/Florence Welch (review explains how good her vocals are, IMO let down a bit by mixing-mastering like others mentioned before - still all...
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    Adele 25

    Agree with you. Just to say it is ironic Mariah Carey has a better voice than most listed so far (lets exclude some of the best classically trained singers); not only covering 5 octaves but great technique and sound. Shame age is catching up with that voice (one area that the best classically...
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    Adele 25

    Yeah agree with all that and especially the point regarding compression and how that and loudness/hot track is perceived. I strongly recommend most should watch the following Youtube segment by Ian Shepherd as it is superb for highlighting this very aspect on mastering with real world example...
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    Adele 25

    Part of that limited voice to me is more about a vocal tightness that restricts her vocal range openness and so suffers constriction-tension , and further exacerbated by her natural voice that seems to have greater energy in upper frequency, so can be perceived more shouty. This then becomes an...
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    Adele 25

    Some reference info: Adele 21: Design – Adele (3), Phil Lee (5) Mastered By – Tom Coyne Photography By – Lauren Dukoff Vocals – Adele Recorded At – Shangri La Recorded At – Eastcote Studios Recorded At – Sphere Studios Recorded At – MyAudiotonic Studios Recorded At – Angel Studios...
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    IBM introduces carbon nanotube transistors to replace silicon in CPUs

    To be fair one should differentiate between standard PCs and associated software, and enterprise-specialist/virtual machine OS-applications/exascale and their related software. On the seriously high compute/virtual scaling side efficiency or absolute performance is critical for these not so...
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    Adele 25

    Yeah I agree, the other two albums definitely more depressing from the recording-mastering quality perspective. If you want to hear her voice closer to natural in a studio try the following album she appears on Dermot O'leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2011 ...
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    Jitter vs no-Jitter

    Well worth noting that optimal will also have weaker alias rejection and causing imaging, unfortunately there is no hard and fast rule how weak/strong this needs to be before influencing a listener and whether good or bad. Although worth noting NOS DACs do not remove any images (cannot really...
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    Anyone successfully pairing a non Magico sub with their Magico speakers?

    You may want to consider the Wilson Benesch Torus and ideally one for each channel but then the cost mounts up - not sure how the model has changed-revised over the years so probably makes sense to audition a more recent one, bear in mind this is not ideal for home theatre and more like a lower...
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    Entreq Tellus grounding

    Guys, anyone familiar with the photo/design please can they comment on the back photos and whether in those photos they also removed a backplate? If the back has not been touched in those photos then I am curious how it matches the ones you own because the other photos I have seen does not...
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    Jitter vs no-Jitter

    Unfortunately there is not one definable audible effect one can associate with jitter because there are different kinds of jitter; this is compounded that most studies and chatter focus on "white noise" random type jitter, which is mostly meaningless to influence on sound. I would say most...
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    Digital primer

    Gregadd it may help to think of sampling requiring an accurate sampling gate-clock, which ties into a frequency. In other words the rate at which samples can be taken matches the frequency of the sampling clock. Cheers Orb
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