Scientist vs. Audiophile

Yaeh these speakers are great.
You should screw it on your feet.

Ah yes the quite possibly the best speaker ever...with built in speaker cables...sigh

Mine:

CD:

-Drive Sonic Frontiers SFT1 + Converter Goldmund Mimesis 14 with Nordost digital cable.

Tape:

-Tapedeck Naka1000

Preamp:

-Kora Triode (tube preamp) (to be replaced by something better)


Power amp:

-Jolida 302 upgraded in pseudo triode with WBT topline Nextgen connectics.

Speakers:

-Mission M32i screw on feet Atacama Nexus 7 filled with sand + weight on each speaker.

Sub:

Magnat Omega 380.

Cables:

-Interconnect

Esoteric audio Tech3i (600€/meter including WBT topline connectic).

-Speaker cable:

Esoteric audio "Accu path" speaker cable. (150€/meter)
Biwired with double low.

WBT Midline speaker connectic

-Power optimization:

Eupen IMU13 power cables (to be replaced), various power filters (each digital device is double filtered), separate electric lines direct from the home counter (4mm2 for sub and amps).

-Cancelling vib devices:

-Sicomin plates (carbon kevlar plate -"vib' sponges"-.

-Golden sound ceramic cones

-Fadel Amethyst

-Steel triangle under tube amp.

-Lovan counter-points


-100 kg weight on the sub

-Weight on CD devices.


Edited by oliverstoned

oliverstoned wrote: Power optimization? Did you tried vib'cancelling devices? You can double your low Speaker cable... The improvment is as big as from mono to bi wiring

Well the electrical course is designed specifully for the HI-FI equipment and i have used some spikes under them Speakers but i have not done much else.

Speaker Cable

Signal Cables

B&W sub and speakers. Thule Cd player and amp and a NAD turn table with Tara Labs cables

I've listen to a big Stax headphones (with its tube prepre) for the first time of my life this week end.
(The whole costs about 2500/3000€).

We listened the big CD setup mentionned above (Teac VRDS20 + Brinkmann Zenith III) through a Counterpoint SA5000 preamp.

Amazing how it goes further in low, high and quickeness than speakers+sub...

A more cerebral styte of listening.

"My goal's beyond" by Mc Laughlin was amazing through the headphones, "The end of an ear" by Wyatt was quite impressive also.

An audiophile friend of us, which is also a sound recorder for "France2" TV, -so headphones is its working tool- listened to this headphones and was crying...



Edited by oliverstoned

Lindsay Lohan wrote: Aha i think anyone will know that the tone is distorted because at 15 000khz there will be only enough space for three samples per cycle. And three samples per cycle the Digital media will not be able to reproduce a Sine wave...infact the wave it reproduces will be more of a sawtooth or square wave....and that is certainly a horrible distortion!

The very fact that an ADC for CDs cannot produce frequencies above 22.1 kHz means that it's impossible for it to produce anything even slightly resembling a sawtooth or square wave at 15kHz. I can't be bothered to think the maths through precisely at 4.30am, but it might even be that 11.05kHz is the very highest frequency that a square wave could be output for, bearing in mind the sharp low pass filter applied before DAC and after ADC. For that reason looking using a spectral analyser is entirely useless if you look above 22.1kHz while the signal is still digital, because that nonsense will not be a part of the signal at all when it reaches the speakers, even if one's ears could hear it.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: As a metal fan I choose the Square, of course. It's also the most interesting waveform from a mathematical standpoint. Unfortunately, as I explained above, at high frequencies our ear cannot tell them apart.

Not only that; at high frequencies they will become literally the same in a digital system.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: oliverstoned wrote: It reminds me of a "scientific" theory from Mike saying that tape wasn't good cause there are less magnetic particles than ear cells Could you remind us (in detail) of that, Mike? I wonder what else I said according to your memory.

I think it's actually a misinterpretation of what I said. I may be wrong about that, though.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: Digital audio will always have it flaws to analog

As will analogue systems always have flaws relative to digital ones. I read an article somewhere about people who hear degradation of records after five or so plays. It probably wasn't true, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: To properly create the illution of a 105 man strong orchestra you need ALOT more than a reasonably good system...even my system that costs $ 30 000 can't do it properly

You'd be amazed at how much recordists try and make their recordings of orchestras sound like we expect recordings to sound, rather than how the actual orchestra sounds when you hear them live.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: Well think whatever you like  Remember that the brain interpets good and bad sounds differently, so certian people are more sensitive to bad quality.,

You worry about your brain, I worry about mine.

BTW: Do you already have an account at my website? If not, feel free to create one and help me with the top albums lists (if you want).

I'm off to bed ... see you tomorrow for some more sensless arguing.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Lindsay Lohan wrote: If you want GOOD quality for a cheap price...get a VINYL player it can outbeat CD players on over 3 times the price See my first post. Vinyl is not better than CD in real life. I'll happily accept any slight differences between the original master and the CD if I in return get the luxury of not having to handle vinyl discs with all their mechanical shortcomings. This is how I listen to music: Turn the computer on. Turn the hifi system on. Start Winamp. Select Album from the media library. Go. BLASPHEMY!

No, just reality. I ripped all my CDs to the computer in 192kbps WMA ... and soon I'll change that to WMA Lossless for my favorite albums. Combined with the right soundcard (Creative X-Fi) this results in a perfect copy of the CD.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: If you want GOOD quality for a cheap price...get a VINYL player it can outbeat CD players on over 3 times the price

See my first post. Vinyl is not better than CD in real life. I'll happily accept any slight differences between the original master and the CD if I in return get the luxury of not having to handle vinyl discs with all their mechanical shortcomings.

This is how I listen to music:

1. Turn the computer on.
2. Turn the hifi system on.
3. Start Winamp.
4. Select Album from the media library.
5. Go.