Hi fi excitement
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Nigel-YZ1
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The problem with stuff like Naim and Krell is you have to bribe the world to shut down for a bit so you can appreciate the quality.
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Cyclist33
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lol i had the amp set to surround ive since found outThat went right over my head
Happy Hi- Fi day
naminder
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Oooooooooh I can sense your excitement from here
ColinJ
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A friend who worked at the same audio company invited me round to his house to check out his expensive hifi. We had a few beers as he demonstrated it to me and It sounded fabulous! He told me to try and 'remember' what it sounded like. He then disconnected the speakers and told me that we he had been listening through his old 'cheap' speaker cables which had cost 'only' £50!by the way, make sure your hearing is tip top too
my hearing isn't fantastic (but i'm not near deaf or anything), so i'm more than happy with mp3 sent wirelessly to a budget separates hifi. a friend has all the valve amp malarky, and waxes lyrical about it. can't hear what's so good about it, so why waste money when i can't tell the difference?
After a lot of faffing about behind his amp and speakers, he finished installing super-duper new gold-plated speaker cables which he had recently bought for the bargain sum of 'only' £500. Yes, that's five hundred pounds, folks!
We had a few more beers as he demonstrated the 'upgraded' system to me. It sounded fabulous too!Did it sound £450 worth of 'extra' fabulous? The hell it did!
(He wouldn't have it though. The sound was apparently now more 'transparent', more 'airy', more 'special' ...)
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Cyclist33
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Oooooooooh I can sense your excitement from here
Hmm! I've taken the afternoon off and am now giving it the beans
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Cyclist33
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Well, after all this advice, I won't be going nuts on cables. Looks like Richer Sounds can give me a good set for a fiver. Mind you, the skinny little tramps I'm using right now are pulling me right into the sound in ways I've never before experienced! Who knew the Chemical Brothers were even better than I thought.
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User482
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I used to work in the audio industry and had a conversation with my M.D. once about expensive signal cables. To say that those cables prevented the mangling of audio signals was one thing, but could somebody please explain how they restored the signals mangled by passing through the rest of the recording/broadcast chain?
If the expensive cables worked as the manufacturers claim, it would be obvious to the listener in a double-blind test. The fact that no-one has ever managed to tell the difference in these conditions tells you all you need to know.
ColinJ
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I used to read Hifi mags about 30 years ago and they'd have the most ridiculous arguments about things like cables. They'd do the tests and be unable to prove any significant differences and would just claim that the tests hadn't been carried out properly!
asterix
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I have ripped all my CDs onto a hard disk and chucked the CD player. A laptop can do everything my CD player could and then some e.g. each album and track is labelled and catalogued for me.
To those who'd advise it's illegal to do this in the UK, be reassured this was done in a country where it is legal. Also I have the CDs, so am not depriving some artist starving in a garret (which is what I understand they like to do).
The PC is connected to my ancient A400 amp with some equally ancient Lynn speakers and it works fine.
To those who'd advise it's illegal to do this in the UK, be reassured this was done in a country where it is legal. Also I have the CDs, so am not depriving some artist starving in a garret (which is what I understand they like to do).
The PC is connected to my ancient A400 amp with some equally ancient Lynn speakers and it works fine.
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Cyclist33
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I'm getting a lot more clarity through the CD player than through the computer, both are connected to the same amp and Tannoys...
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Cyclist33
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... agree though, more control on the PC.
asterix
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Well it wasn't a great CD player!
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Cyclist33
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Nor is mine - in fact it's a DVD player that came with a flatscreen telly. The difference on the volume knob on the amp is startling between the computer and that. I can get up to half way comfortably on the amp with the PC's volume and Media Player volume both set to max, but playing the same music through the CD player I can barely get 25% of the volume up on the amp before I start to get scared of the neighbours!
