More 'Audiophile' bullsh*t

[spikey123]

Mood and alcohol do make a huge difference. I find that the carbonised panda feet slippers bring out the lows and the top end is helped by lots of wine and an elastic band around the head. Tweeters are a pain and I have never gotten into hash tag anyway. A finger in one ear always worked for folk singers, 2 fingers usually end up with fuzzy highs and ear popping. Isolating yourself from the environment with beer always seems to make for relaxing listening ( and waking up having sucked the region of the carpet next to your mouth clean). Turning the volume up until the crockery shakes makes anything sound good and the whistling in your ears is a good friend. Listening with drunken friends is a laugh and can end in dances, life long friendships and bonding. If your speaker stands are too high, loud volumes and dancing can cause objects to move during flight and opening your mouth can cause injury. We always promote safe listening and latex ear plugs are recommended.

[Crackie]

spikey123 said:

I tried it. I a-b tested it against other cables

When you say "tried it", did you try more than one type or assume all solid core cable was poor ?

Edited by Crackie on Thursday 1st May 22:29

[Crackie]

gizlaroc said:

I was with a friend who runs a Levinson system into Dunlavy SC-IVs (which is a pretty dark system) and I was running Merdian pre, meridian Dac, Classe power into Dunlavys with a Rel Studio.

Dunlavy was a genius . Did you both import your speakers ??

[qube_TA]

OldSkoolRS said:

I've found that my system improves as the evening goes on. Nothing to do with it warming up or such, just that by then I've got through a bottle of wine.

And ambient background noise drops.

[scorp]

qube_TA said:

We've all been missing out, we need cable towers!

http://6moons.com/audioreviews/dedicated2/cabletow...

I think i need the Futurama gif every time someone posts a link to one of these.

[gizlaroc]

Crackie said:

Dunlavy was a genius . Did you both import your speakers ??

Yeah.

James, from CRT Projectors and now the Technical guy at Oppo UK, also has the big Dunlavy Centre speaker.
The one with two 10" drivers in it. And SCIII rears.

He was running that with a heavily modded LX91 Bluray into the valve Conrad Johnson 5 channel pre amp, MET-1 I think it is called from meory, and then into big Levinson Momoblocks.
To say it sounded good was an understatement.


When you look at what you can picka pair of SC-IVs up for over there now it is worth paying £500 shipping, they are phenomenal speakers, just not that wife friendly.
A lot of recording studios still use them.

[gizlaroc]

When I say not that wife friendly.....

[TEKNOPUG]

scorp said:

qube_TA said:

We've all been missing out, we need cable towers!

http://6moons.com/audioreviews/dedicated2/cabletow...

I think i need the Futurama gif every time someone posts a link to one of these.

"The Cable Towers are designed to turn your power and speaker cables into an elevated electrical highway"

[Crackie]

gizlaroc said:

Crackie said:

Dunlavy was a genius . Did you both import your speakers ??

Yeah.

James, from CRT Projectors and now the Technical guy at Oppo UK, also has the big Dunlavy Centre speaker.
The one with two 10" drivers in it. And SCIII rears.

He was running that with a heavily modded LX91 Bluray into the valve Conrad Johnson 5 channel pre amp, MET-1 I think it is called from meory, and then into big Levinson Momoblocks.
To say it sounded good was an understatement.


When you look at what you can picka pair of SC-IVs up for over there now it is worth paying £500 shipping, they are phenomenal speakers, just not that wife friendly.
A lot of recording studios still use them.

I sometimes use a pair of Duntech Marquis which are similar to SC-IVs, great speakers. My uncle in the States uses SC-Vs driven by a Wadia & Classe power amps.

I've spent the last 3 years building a digital active system with the intention of combining the smoothness and accuracy of the Duntechs with the drama and dynamics of the Impulse H2's I use in my analogue system. The active system is loads of fun and I'm listening to a lot more music as a result

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 3rd May 10:15

[gizlaroc]

Crackie said:

They are loads of fun and I'm listening to a lot more music as a result

And that what it is all about.

That is why I like Apple TV and Sonos etc.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Meridian Soloos into a pair of DSP8000s, but still love the fact I have a Play 5 in the kitchen that I can play whatever I want from, just being able to pass the ipad around when friends are round and everyone can add a track to the playlist from Sportify is great.

I love my high end, but thing some of the streaming stuff is doing more for music than anything else.

[Crackie]

gizlaroc said:

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Meridian Soloos into a pair of DSP8000s,
I love my high end,

Have you considered room correction ? I'm going to get one of these http://www.minidsp.com/images/documents/Product%20... to have a play with. It would be easy to use in a Sooloos Meridian active system and is receiving great reviews. http://www.dirac.se/en/media-coverage.aspx
£550ish + import duty.

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 3rd May 12:33

[gizlaroc]

I had room correction in the G61R Meridian pre amp.
In the room with no carpets it was very good, but then when I moved room I preferred the sound with it off, not by much, but I think I was lucky with a pretty good room.

[spikey123]

gizlaroc said:

When I say not that wife friendly.....

I see why it is not wife friendly, the middle speaker is blocking the door. Can you actually have a wife AND speakers like that?!?

[Crackie]

spikey123 said:

I see why it is not wife friendly, the middle speaker is blocking the door. Can you actually have a wife AND speakers like that?!?

My wife would be delighted if the speakers in our lounge were as small as those. She'd also be happier if there were little bookshelf speakers rather than Impulse H2s in the dining room.

[spikey123]

Yes of course I meant in the house. I have these in my car and they sure sound good at 90 mph

[alock]

Thought I would drag this thread back up after seeing this:

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

Stops you perceiving time signals from the past through the music.

[Zod]

alock said:

Thought I would drag this thread back up after seeing this:

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

Stops you perceiving time signals from the past through the music.

charlatans said:

The Clever Little Clock is based on concepts and techniques that were developed by PWB Electronics, Leeds, England and is designed and manufactured exclusively by Machina Dynamica. May Belt of PWB Electronics provided assistance with this theory of operation.

PWB - tells you all you need to know.

[Esseesse]

alock said:

Thought I would drag this thread back up after seeing this:

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

Stops you perceiving time signals from the past through the music.

Wind up?

[jmorgan]

http://www.machinadynamica.com/index.html

Rib splitting. Got to be another wind up.

[Jon1967x]

Esseesse said:

alock said:

Thought I would drag this thread back up after seeing this:

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

Stops you perceiving time signals from the past through the music.

Wind up?

If governments can buy novelty golf ball finders thinking they're a genuine bomb detectors, I can believe these would work