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Agreed. The test of any good music is if it can hold up with time. Steely Dan is a prime example it does. Very few bands from that era did b/c of their overuse of processed keyboard sounds (IE. ELP). BTW, Steely Dan was before my time too since I was just a child when their stuff came...

I couldn't agree with you more! I disagree. I think they were one of the best Jazz/Rock bands to grace the globe. Think about it: Steve Gadd, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour - all of these guys are tremendous jazz musicians. They added lumps to jazz which is refreshing in todays lame smooth...

I purchased a Digital Sub 300 which was the 600 predeccesor back when I was a mere consumer. It had problems with the preamp clipping when input signal exceeded 1Vrms and the woofers would "double" when driven too hard making it sound like a helicopter. At the time they weren't familiarized...

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One of these days when I have a bigger support staff, I can dedicate more time to the cable stuff and do what you just say. I plan on taking all the data from faceoff II and generate frequency plots into 8 ohm loads. I also plan on measuring these cables response with a real amp and speaker...

Don't automatically assume separates will give you better sound than flagship receivers. In more cases than not, receivers in the same price class as separates alternatives offer superior processing, more usability, lower noise and in some cases better performance. While the AVR-5805 does...

I know the ranking system is a bit confusing and I too had discussions with Mudcat about this. Basically the higher the scoring# for the R,L,C rankings, the better the cable performed in this regard. (IE. A cable with the lowest resistance scored a 10 and the cable with the highest...

Charlie; The reason why we weighed capacitance so heavily was so that many of the high capacitance, exotic speaker cables would be penalized. Granted moderately high capacitance cable (50-100pf/ft) would have little effect on system frequency response, much higher capacitance cables (seems...

The measurements are directly responsible for the sonic signature a cable imposes on a particular system or the lack thereof with the preface that well designed cables are sonically indistinguishable. We don't discuss the subjective chocolately midrange performance of cables. We leave...

We are way ahead of you mtrycrafts :) Article on Damping Factor

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Supposed to be from what I heard. Some day I will get to them ;)

Courtesy of Mudcat This effort is an offshoot of my search for a decent performing large OD cable, which will be used for my DIY speaker cables. When I bought my first really good pair of speakers, the salesman sort of talked me into a set of Monster MCX-1S cables. I had been/ am a zip cord...

OK I lied heres another post :) Unregistered; Realize test instruments such as the ones we utilize to measure cables (Wayne Kerr 6420) are 1000's of times more accurate than the human ear. Also these machines when properly calibrated are far more consistent and precise than the human...

WmAX; I agree with you 100%.

Unregistered; Unfortunately I don't have the time to sit and debate you point for point on this article, especially since you didn't bring any technical discussions to the table, only speculations and red herrings. I don't want to turn this into a political debate so this will likely be my...

Valid logic assuming the sources are inaccurate. Where is it stated in the article in question that .5dB isn't heard? excerpt from the article: Thus the actual loss in question was only .051dB about 10 times less than human audibility. Human hearing is very insensitive to amplitude...

Pinnacle introduces a new solution for space saving subwoofers: the SUBcompact6. The new SUBcompact 6 powered subwoofer is housed in a diminutive ~8” cube. The SUBcompact 6 produces deep, authoritative and convincing bass down to 28 Hz (@ -3 dB). Pinnacle Subcompact6 Subwoofer!

A speaker design based on an MTM configuration with center channel placement in mind can still work relatively well as a horizontally placed center channel by using a 4th order Linkwiitz-Riley acoustic slope crossover to integrate the mid-woofer and tweeter vs. the 3rd order slope traditionally...

K&B Signal Solutions is a newcomer to the audio industry. A group of Mechanical Engineers set out to produce affordable and well performing cable products, snake oil free. One unique perspective they bring to the table is their very clever and practical terminations comprised in their new...