Racer X

No idea if this USB cable makes a difference, but it looks better than the gimme cable. https://www.amazon.com/Monolith-USB-Digital-Audio-Cable/dp/B07Q8ZD6DN/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3MWN80ZUEQN53&keywords=monoprice%2Busb%2Ba%2Bto%2Bb&qid=1670969760&sprefix=monoprice%2Bus%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-3&th=1

Music from the ceiling is department store sound and unnatural. I prefer my music to originate from in front of me. Believe we are programmed to look towards the sound source for localization.

Tape seemed like a pretty good idea at the time....

@Marvel Awaiting more details: What year for and cost for the Alesis and Tascam DAT ? Did they get much use ? When did things get hard (disk) ? When if did the quality or techniques improve ? My limited take is recording used to be a specialized niche and required a lot of expense and equipment. Then one day it didn't and anyone could make good quality multi-tracks on their laptop. Distribution likewise transformed greatly from single cassettes to cheap CD duplicates (both required significant effort and expense) to the youTube (instaneous and free).

Recently adjusted the alignment of my mid and tweeter, seems my first attempt at this was off by an inch or so. It never makes a difference until it does.

Curious if anyone can supply more detail on this point. I can only compare my 1990 Magnavox CDB 650 to my 2021 Topping E30 DAC.

Alluding to the MoFi hubbub, it is interesting how a willful disclosure issue caused an existential crisis in so many.

Perhaps you should be taking this up with your seller, rather than randos on the internet.

Perhaps you could view this from the seller's perspective: How would you like to pay Paypal to get your money ?

Records were fun for 35 years, but the hassles eventually got to be too much. Get more enjoyment now from playing files, having all those recordings taking up no space yet be instantly accessible at the touch of a finger still boggles my mind. My music player is a far better DJ than I ever was....

Thanks, Henry, for this insight, I've wondered about this point.

Bird of prey or Bird of opportunity ? Awesome picture of impressive bird. Now researching distinction of red shouldered, red tailed, and chicken hawk....

Agree, only made it half way through, even at double speed. I think I lost interest when he said they sounded so good he couldn't find the words. And he's usually such a gusher....

Math is a terribly cruel science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug But I am intrigued by the concept of an optimum wire length. I believe Medwin's number 57.125" is a Fulton length espoused by Robert Fulton. Description lifted from someone's post on Audioasylum: The real magic number is 57.125 (57 1/8) inches, according to Robert Fulton of Fulton Musical Industries. He is the one who somehow discovered that this length of wire, and all multiples thereof, sounds best. His interconnects were all 57.125" and his speaker cables were either 3 times this (14 feet, 3 3/8 inches) or 6 times (28 feet, 6 3/4 inches). This was back in the early 1980s. I attempted to verify this a couple times but not in a rigorous way. At any rate I didn't hear any difference when the length of my interconnect or speaker cable was a couple inches less than the magic number. In case anyone is interested in experimenting with this, the magic length is the actual wire tip to tip. The soldered connectors such as RCA plugs or spade lugs are not part of the magic dimension.

Um, not going to touch cap brand.... Type AA schematic:

Believe we all miss the Radio Shack. Always looked forward to the catalog in the spring.

More importantly, what gauge, length and wire does Claude recommend ?

Ignorance is Bliss

Doesn't look too digital...yet.

Note to rotate my woofers....

Believe it is very important to match your speaker size to your room. But everyone has a different idea what is optimum for both. As for speaker wire, I noticed there is more wire after my crossovers to my 3 ways than before crossover to amps. So I change all wires if when I make a change.

Fascinating. Back to basics, and I really appreciate a simple approach to the stereo, er music. I noticed I am continually adjusting the balance with my volume as my source material changes, some recordings are offset compared to others, no idea why. I often use my mono switch to center my system, and still have to tweak the balance.

The longer I go between listens to my room stereo, the better it sounds. Avoiding listening to the earbuds too much while surfing the net helps also. Listening first thing in the morning on Sundays is very enjoyable, but the best is at night in a dark room.

Well, I gave the Animals 2018 Remix a listen today, and still not a fan of remasterings or remixes of the classic Floyd or Zeppelin I listened to ad infinitum back in the day when I first started listening to music on the stereo. Animals is perhaps the darkest of all Pink Floyd albums (save Meddle Side 2 Echoes) and for me a lot of that feeling is lost on this 2018 Remix. Sure, it sounds brighter, deeper bass in parts, but the delays and reverbs are all different now, greatly altering the sound. For me, the best climatic part of the album is the weeping guitar solo in Dogs. It is just perfection on the original and demands to be played at the loudest volume one can stand. The drama of this is totally lost on the 2018 Remix. I can certainly appreciate the slightly different sound of the original analog on various phono cartridges or pressings, but this is just too different, fresh.

Using the internet to complain about the internet kind of ironic. But glad to be free of the fb. Hard to look away from the internet now for any length of time. But very thankful for the YouTube and all the music I find there delivered instantly for free. Without a chance YouTube video I would have never found that the Hard Rock genre has been resurrected by a group of beautiful Japanese women.