...on top of speakers (and i read some recommendation to put the crystals where room modes are the loudest, i still have to try this) 3. as "grounding box", placed ideally on top of a device and connected to some gnd point but can i ask you with which non-piezoelectric crystals you have...

...real and to ignore them is to intentionally leave yourself open to fooling yourself about the reality of what you believe you hear. In the ground box cable thread you talk about little piles of crystals changing the high frequencies in different ways depending on the specifics of the...

Are you thinking of using the crystals as the filter material like a ground box?

I picked up a couple AKG’s along my journey; Q701, K712 Pro, and I still have my pair of K612 Pro today! I sent them in to Tyll so that he could add them to his measurements database. I agree they’re pretty fantastic. They scale up really well with better gear upstream too… when I got my Cavalli...

im looking forward for getting some "ground plates" CNC'd, i dont have pics yet but think of it as a round cup out of 1cm aluminium with a clear plastic top filled with crystals with a 4mm banana connector plug inside the bottom

yes this is definitely true, but its sort of a rabbit hole i still fear the fact that this is more of a personal thing than anything else, but mixes seem to produce replicable variables, but you also have to account for crystal size (the crystals inside the audiophile rock were around 1-2mm...

...The compound (usually epoxy of some sort) holds it all together. That is why I just use small actual crystals on top of the component or ground box for similar effect. But by using small actual crystals it is easier to tune by ear. I suppose it is possible to come up with a mixture of...

The difference these can make is well worth the $35. Enjoy the infinite tip-rolling! Yes, T5S is love. My review should be landing next week and I'm struggling to find drawbacks. Ooh Explorer looks like an interesting midcentric set, but I'm slightly afraid of that prominent 8kHz in comparison...

I think its some sort of ground fault in the adapter, when i touch the top cap on adapter the loud hum disappears , also when a multimeter touches the test points the hum comes back and mA goes up to 65-70 , tubes got very hot also . Removed the EL81 from amp and will order some new adapters...

...machine calls it "true bi-wiring" in some publications and "balanced" in others. What they mean by that is that the 701s use separate grounds for each motor assembly rather than a common ground (although the ¼" jack does feature a common ground, of course). That's probably one reason I was...

...reality, I've always felt most of the wired Noble IEM are overpriced too for what they are. But the Aviot do seem like a set breaking some ground in the TWS space. If the Aviot do the trick, the MTW4 will be on sale and maybe next year something interesting enough will come out. But yes...

When you say the Aune S9C Pro serves bright detailed headphones well, what do you mean by that? I am just curious. I currently am pairing the XTC 2 Open with it and have been enjoying it quite a bit. I have been looking at potentially getting a set of planar headphones but still looking into...

Nah, it helps a cable ground potential convert to EMI. It makes it difficult to deal with later. Rule #1. Deal with a source noise at a source before it converts to EMI. Rule #2. Deal with EMI on the receiver side.

They just gotta keep hitting the ground at can jams and it will speak for itself at demos

...technicalities, Yep. And the Singolo has the combined effect of the two going on in unison. What makes the music as such become lifted off the ground into the midrange, forgetting the grounding taking place in the XUAN NV at all. Nope, we are flying slightly higher off the ground. Cruising...

...inaudible at "medium", and non-existent at "low". At the "low" impedance level, which is more suitable for my Empyrean 2 (32 ohms), the background is about 99% quiet as the radio station's conversations are extremely quiet, infrequent, and on the right channel. I can deal with this since I...

Unless you are using ancient or highly esoteric equipment, causing a short upon insertion of an HP is irrelevant today. That being said, I like the pentaconn because the jack feels more robust than the 3.5mm. But, it's not as large as the 6.35mm. It's also easier to convert to 4 pin XLR.

Hello, I don't detect any background noise while listening to music, only when I have my phone nearby. I try to keep it away when listening Yesterday I tested with the headphones connected but without music. Turning the volume up to 12 o'clock or more I can hear a soft hum, mainly at high...

Modern amplifiers for several years, including some that are portable, are easily capable of driving vast majority of headphones. Like happening with several others aspects of audio, the debate of balanced vs unbalanced is very more often a case of snake oil.

The key parts there are slew rate and lack of shared ground. Basically a balanced amp can be twice as fast as a single ended amp when both use the same transistors. On less efficient headphones the voltage swing needs to be higher so balanced can offer benefits there. If you have a single...

...slew rate (how quickly the amp responds to input signals), lower noise, and reduced crosstalk due to the elimination of the shared audio ground between the left and right channels. But you’re highly unlikely to notice much improvement in listening. Actually, the only real tangible benefit...

Yup, we'll bite that bullet, in order to add the inline mic, the 3.5 is pretty dumb as we have to ground the mic... Please use the 4.4 balanced output.

I’m happy to have "recommended" it to you, especially considering that you like it so much! I really think it’s an amazing cable, particularly given its price. TRN is extremely fast on that front. Yesterday, they dispatched my Medusa in a matter of minutes after I ordered it. Thank you for...

...experience. In other words, there is no right or wrong, try yourself what suits you best. Jump around with settings or find your "lazy" middle ground and leave it as it is. Me for example, with my equipment and preferences, I mostly use fast roll off linear phase, the standard, basic FIR...

...to any perceived hum? As described before, on my ZMFs (VC + BC), sadly, I'm far from a "black" noise floor, and instead get a discernable "ground hum" which seems to be treatable with the right set of cables (AC and HP cables). Silver makes it worse, copper makes it less. Interconnects (DAC...