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Poll Results: Which of the following selections have a noticeable effect on sound quality?

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 3% (12)
    Cables
  • 8% (30)
    Amps
  • 3% (11)
    Cabinetry
  • 5% (19)
    OpAmps
  • 8% (32)
    Room treatments
  • 2% (9)
    Resistors
  • 2% (8)
    Price
  • 5% (19)
    Potentiometers
  • 8% (31)
    Lossy compression
  • 6% (22)
    Lossless compression
  • 2% (10)
    Powerline filtration
  • 7% (27)
    Transducers
  • 3% (14)
    Jitter
  • 0% (2)
    Shiny
  • 4% (17)
    Capacitors
  • 8% (32)
    Tubes/Valves
  • 4% (17)
    Transformers
  • 4% (18)
    Synergy
  • 6% (25)
    DACs
  • 2% (10)
    Bit depths and sampling rates beyond the Red Book standard
365 Total Votes  
post #31 of 36
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Originally Posted by upstateguy View Post

LOL KW.

 

No, this one really works.  All you have to do is use your ears.


A big hunk of high permeability iron...sucks up all the stray electromagnetic fields in the vicinity.  rolleyes.gif

wink_face.gif  One kilobuck eek.gif  Such a deal! basshead.gif

 

post #32 of 36
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Originally Posted by upstateguy View Post




LOL KW.

 

No, this one really works.  All you have to do is use your ears.

 

A $1 blindfold and some magical thinking will give the same effect.
post #33 of 36

Uncle Erik,

Speaking of magical thinking... Remember the "magical" Magic Markers that people used to mark up the edges of their CD's in order to "improve" the sound?  Well I'm really frustrated trying to figure out what to mark up with that pen now when I listen to my flac files from a flash drive??  Maybe I could color the contact points on the interconnect cables? blink.gif

 

 

 

 

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post #34 of 36

Don't forget the Magic Clock - all the Stereophile staff could hear the difference it made ( http://www.stereophile.com/miscellaneous/784/index.html ). Not as big as the magical carbon-fibre shelf, which "threw the inner mechanism of the music into sharper relief" ( http://www.stereophile.com/standsracks/782/index.html ), but you can't have everything.


Edited by Willakan - 7/30/11 at 9:19am
post #35 of 36

Maybe I could put the flash drive on the "shelf" and things would get better? basshead.gif

post #36 of 36
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Willakan View Post

Don't forget the Magic Clock - all the Stereophile staff could hear the difference it made ( http://www.stereophile.com/miscellaneous/784/index.html ). Not as big as the magical carbon-fibre shelf, which "threw the inner mechanism of the music into sharper relief" ( http://www.stereophile.com/standsracks/782/index.html ), but you can't have everything.


I was skeptical at first, but after reading the article, the effects were quite noticeable. Although these were nothing but pixels on my screen - letters, character codes, bytes, bits - their initial subtlety resolved into a well rounded physical revulsion. Yes, surprised as I was on the effect of writing on my digestive system, Stereophile staff succeeded at inducing a sort of nausea usually reserved for viewing Goatse on the finest high-def displays. Their secret ingredient was not immediately apparent while looking at the individual components (they used the same ordinary English words and punctuation as reputable publications), but, like Scientology, sometimes it takes a comprehensive reading to get to marvel at the full spectrum of batsh*t insanity the author is trying to convey.

I am now a believer. Tomorrow I intend to throw out the bottle of ipecac in my medicine cabinet and replace it with a copy of Stereophile.

 


Edited by anetode - 8/3/11 at 4:02am
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