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    Blind Test Challenge Offered by Engineer on Audiogon

    Which is why I like to say "Perfect and getting better everyday!!" No one seems to know though how perfect can be topped. :cool: CJ
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    Ground rod length

    You can better your ground by adding but it should never ever be separate. They must be tied together! If you are trying to better lightning protection, then tying in more ground rods is beneficial. But they must all be slaved together to that common point entrance. Due to attempting to...
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    RIP -The Audio Critic , Peter Aczel

    Yes.
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    Close in phase noise

    I've taken to just plainly calling this "internet science". It's just a new facet of today's world. CJ
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    Marry Christmas with our new master tapes release !

    Marry Christmas?? I'll have to see a picture of her first to know if I'm interested.... :cool: CJ
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    Otari MTR15 Pinch Roller Does Not Engage When Play is Pressed

    Hi Don, I installed a new MTR-10 many, many years ago. Didn't get to do any maintenance later on it to learn anything particular. But from other models, that'd suggest to me it is just a mechanical, probably lube issue. Might be an adjustment on a solenoid that could be involved, but I'd...
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    "What The Specs Don’t Tell You… And Why"

    Somewhere on the web in the last couple of years, I ran across a mention in a thread, of a paper that talked about many types of distortions. I have not ever been able to find that paper or the mention of it again. Anyone know of it? It was a fairly recent paper I think. What I liked was...
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    Adele 25

    I wonder how much of this is due to her voice problems. Indeed, how much of the production used is to "help" her out in that regard. If you've watched the Live performance, she was really fighting it at that time and trying to cast it off as nothing. If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't too long...
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    Is Auditory perception a learned process or innate?

    My perspective... I have the luxury (??) of changing audio as part of my daily job. EI...I fold, spindle and mutilate to my choosing. I have been able to observe and question others over several decades now as to if they hear certain things, or not. What I have learned is that some aspects...
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    Anyone heard about Meridian's new project called MQA

    I'm looking at MQA as the digital comparable to Dolby NR. Dolby was a complimentary process to lower the tape noise. MQA is targeting the reduction/elimination of encoder/decoder error is sort of a similar way. If it accomplishes that, then the audio in becomes more like the audio out...
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    Where are microstrip andPhelonious Ponk!?!

    His band of Angels?? He's passed on?? :cool:
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    Slate article on Audiophiles

    So does the illusion get smashed going into that little hole on each side of my head? It must surely then. Actually, those two holes are smaller than my speakers. Maybe I need to change that.... CJ
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    Conclusive "Proof" that higher resolution audio sounds different

    Waveform of Adele song from 2012... Waveform of randomly picked song of older music.....A Linda Ronstadt cut from 1974. "Nuff said! CJ
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    How do you tighten up your circuit breaker box

    Electricians have told me that in businesses the lugs in all panels should all be tensioned on a regular basis. I think he said for sure, every couple years. I do not know if it's in the code or just good practice. If you go down the lugs, you will almost always be able to tighten them...
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    Is this serious or an infomercial

    Thanks for that! Didn't know it was an adaptation to get there. CJ
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    Is this serious or an infomercial

    Galvanically isolated? You can DC power over IP to devices which suggests no galvanic isolation. Are you perhaps confusing the AES standard? CJ
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    Is the dynamic range of CD sufficient?

    Unlimited fidelity in 16 bit is great! But what's better yet, is even less yet limits with 96/24 and even more with 192/24!! What's better listening than more than unlimited...? CJ
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    Interview with Roger Sanders

    And the cool thing is they are getting more perfect everyday!! Woo-Hoo.... CJ
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    CD Quality Is Not High-Res Audio

    It's good to see something new come to light in this discussion! CJ
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    USB DACs, HD Tracks, and the Oppo105

    I"ve done next to nothing with a USB stick so I can't directly relate personal experience on that specific question. But I don't think it's any problem to do 192 by USB. I have burned to DVD high rez, even putting back to back different speed material which it didn't care about. Because...
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    USB DACs, HD Tracks, and the Oppo105

    I've played around with streaming to my Oppo 105 by OP. Both by commanding it from the Oppo RC and watching on a monitor or alternatively by commanding JRiver directly with my smart phone running an app. Either way, the computer can be elsewhere in the house and the Oppo becomes the DAC...
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    Constant Power

    The Sounds of Silence...by the Guess Who? Sorry....no excuse...not even drinkin'. :eek:
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    Catering to the rich not the audiophile

    I'm amazed that this thread has went this far and it hasn't been mentioned that Mr. Gideon was the one showing the incredible Voxativ Ampeggio speakers at some of the Axpona's last year, maybe all. I met him in Atlanta where it was being powered by a Fi amp. Several of us thought it was...
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    Time alignment

    A great experience for me was an afternoon spent playing with time alignment a few years back. I'll never question the value of time alignment again! It was a two way design. JBL potatoe masher for highs and a Harry Olson titty driver for the rest in a sealed enclosure. We were able to...
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    Could you live with my system?

    Funniest line of the day!! Thanks for that one!! Yes, I could live with that system. While many here are as you acknowledge, at a much higher price point, that looks like a nice little system! You can get very nice imaging from those monitors, I'm sure. At least based on what can be...
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    Long wall or short wall? and why.

    Wouldn't the answer heavily depend on the radiation pattern of the speaker system used? And the distance between the drivers? The driver sizes used and how much beaming is occurring? Maybe even the crossover slope? CJ
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    Synergy?

    Is this one of the four measurements that reveals everything we've ever needed to know, to explain everything to do with audio?? :confused: CJ PS...nice toy!!
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    Ethan Winer's definition of Audio transparency

    Wow...this is really good news! Because I've been puzzling over how I can measure dynamics that occur with more than two indiependant frequencies. You know...more than just a single sinewave or two. Something more like what would happen when playing music. I really eager to dig down and see...

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