No I am serious. Marc's thinking on this mirrors mine. Although that will probably make him reconsider
No I am serious. Marc's thinking on this mirrors mine. Although that will probably make him reconsider
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
In my formation my Father, who was a librarian, but thought he was so intellectual that he could alter speaker designers' intentions, created a mono system that sounded awful.
This has I am sure influenced my perception of sound as a formative experience, as do all our early experience and in all areas; it is not only formal education which 'educates' us.
We carry this with us everywhere we go and with varying abilities to adapt and correct for them, and they will affect to some degree the whole of our life futures.
The measured parameters serve only as a guide because they are well established as criteria for a good piece of equipment, but they do not define it entirely.
We then have to choose that which violates least our own particular genetically based sensibilities.
There was a war in South America many centuries ago in which two tribes fought because one liked brown bananas, and the other yellow ones, the difference only being that enzymes have turned starch into sugars more in the brown ones.
One tribe slaughtered the other; what a sensible race we are?
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
What does a banana taste like? Food or wine might influence how we hear?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...-taste-of-wine
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Main system : VPI Scout 1.1 / JMW 9T / 2M Black / Croft 25R+ / Croft 7 / Heco Celan GT 702
Second System : Goldring Lenco GL75 / AT95EX / Pioneer SX590 / Spendor SP2
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
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Location: East Anglia UK
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I'm Marc.
People who touch, smell or look at fruit before they eat it make me sick!
Fruit is only about the taste and the only way to determine that is to taste it, durr!
What sort of idiot would waste their time using any other sensory apparatus or source of so called 'information' than their mouths to determine what the deal is with a piece of fruit?!
With all those green picked fruits that have been artificially ripened before ending up on the supermarket shelves, it is very difficult to imagine how the smell of a fruit affects its taste. It is even possible to detect from the smell if some fruits are ripe enough to eat, or not. Mind you, some fruits have to be shaken, slightly squeezed, or tapped with a knuckle in order to find out if they are ripe enough to be eaten.
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Location: East Anglia UK
Posts: 1,219
I'm Marc.
The ripeness of a fruit is in the eating, anyone who tries to circumvent this is likely a 'fruitibator'
Special circles of hell also reserved for:
Walkers who use maps
Ornithologists who use any form of taxonomy, rather than just determining species on sight according to their own preference and naming conventions.
Astronomers who use telescopes
Chefs who use recipes and those poor souls who engage in the pointless 'holy war' of whether it's better to cook with fire, gas or electric heat, when we all know they take food further away from the source and the only real food is raw food
People who believe a 100watt lightbulb will be brighter than a 60watt light bulb, every time I need a new light bulb I buy both and assess for myself which is the brightest and use that one