[mcbiff]

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Originally posted by morphsci Another one has joined the dark side .... muuuhahaha

You ain't kiddin'. I just popped my Use Your Illusion I MFSL in for a quick listen, and I swear I'm hearing new things I never thought where there. The instruments also appear to have more air around them. This is great, but strange. If you would've asked me a year ago if something like this could affect the sound of a CDP I would've laughed in your face. But OTOH I also said I would never spend more than $5 on cables.

 

[KR...]

Everyone who starts this hobby always seems to start with bad sources, no headphone amp, cheap ICs, and no tweaks. They also think that these things do not matter and we are all nuts for even writing about it in the 1st place. Later, for some godforsaken reason they decide to try and do what we tell them for once, and they begin to understand what we already knew. Before you know it, they are one of us and they start telling the same things to other newbies and so on and so fourth.

 

[mbriant]

KR, you've probably already answered this, but what component is your avatar?

 

[MacDEF]

It's clearly a McIntosh something

 

[KR...]

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KR, you've probably already answered this, but what component is your avatar?

No I haven't, but it's a McIntosh Amp.

 

[mbriant]

I should have known. The narrow width threw me however. I guess it's a monoblock. I thought it might be a new headphone amp or something.

 

[KR...]

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I thought it might be a new headphone amp or something.

I wish!!!
Don't even make me think about stuff like that

One of these days, one of the big boy hi-fi companies will finally qake up and make a headphone amp. Let's hope.

 

[Hirsch]

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Originally posted by mcbiff Ok, I've listened for a while now. And I know that everyone will laugh at me, but I hear a difference. Now, I'm sure it could very well be in my mind, but I could swear that it sounds as if a veil has been lifted. The noisefloor is also lower, and bass seems to have improved. Oh dear, I can hear the car coming to take me away. This stuff is nuts.

McBiff,

By moving the speaker, you've just moved a large magnet away from delicate electrical circuitry. Vibration aside, this can only help the rest of your components. Even shielded speakers still put out a magnetic field (although an attempt has been made to attenuate it). Jude has already mentioned the magnetic field put out by the monitor.

As an aside, several people in a Sony HDTV mail list I subscribe to remove the speakers from their RPTV's completely (since they use home theater audio components, they have no need for the speakers in the set itself). They find that this significantly affects the convergence of the set (which had been accomodating for a deflection of the picture caused by the speaker magnets). Correcting the convergence is tedious but minor, and allows for more precise focus and final convergence, and ultimately a better picture.

In dealing with magnetic fields, the inverse square law works...

 

[jude]

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Originally posted by mcbiff You ain't kiddin'. I just popped my Use Your Illusion I MFSL in for a quick listen, and I swear I'm hearing new things I never thought where there. The instruments also appear to have more air around them. This is great, but strange. If you would've asked me a year ago if something like this could affect the sound of a CDP I would've laughed in your face. But OTOH I also said I would never spend more than $5 on cables.

mcbiff,

As you probably can imagine, I'm not surprised at all to read about the result you had -- congrats on the improvement!

 

[mcbiff]

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Originally posted by jude mcbiff, As you probably can imagine, I'm not surprised at all to read about the result you had -- congrats on the improvement!

Thanks a lot, I guess you can file me under 'believers' from now on.

 

[coolvij]

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Everyone who starts this hobby always seems to start with bad sources, no headphone amp, cheap ICs, and no tweaks. They also think that these things do not matter and we are all nuts for even writing about it in the 1st place. Later, for some godforsaken reason they decide to try and do what we tell them for once, and they begin to understand what we already knew. Before you know it, they are one of us and they start telling the same things to other newbies and so on and so fourth.

Uh, KR - not me.

Cuz, I was young......gullible......and am now......poor(er).