I'm an indie artist and took some classes in the art institute of Atlanta, I'm not a pro engineer or anything I do ok for the limited hardware I have, I like to think, but however everything I do mean everything this guy with this so called million dollar sound system is complete bullishit! And I consider myself a kinda intermediate level engineer and I can tell that guy it's full of tin foyal hat bullishit !
Terrance Dickson. I am a professional sound engineer both studio and live, been doing it ( and building studios ) for going on 20 years now. Nothing that bloke is saying makes any sense what-so-ever. The guy is basically selling snake oil to people who are clueless about audio. Nothing more, nothing less. I mean, never mind a million dollars, I could improve the sound of the room he's in ten fold with £500 worth of DIY material covered wooden frames filled with rockwool.
@@aholder4471 I understand a special tuning fork is required. One for each pole. £25k a piece. Different set of forks required for use in the summer, of course.
The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surrounded by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in direct line with the pentametric fan, the latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar vaneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus- o-delta type placed in panendermic semiboloid solts in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible termic pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeter.
Is anybody else interested in a Snake Oil review for Shun Mook wood? I'd love to help funding White Sea getting some specimen for the sake of a review! :D But these things are overly expensive!
I'll give you a review. They are made of Mpingo wood, which is a super dense hardwood that is actually recognised for it's sympathetic harmony with music. What it does is it vibrates from music and those vibration then radiate sound back out. The net result is it sucks up some frequencies and boosts some other ones. So they do not magically cure sound, but instead alter it. The stuff is actually really quite powerful and having as much in the room as that catt does likely really alters the sound. That cat would be way better off spending 4k on acoustic treatment to cure his rooms ills. You might like what it does to the sound of your kit, but it just as easily can destroy the sound. As much as people love to scream snake oil, I guarantee you I can do a demo of Mpingo wood where you will absolutely hear a difference, whether that difference is good or bad is up to the listener.
@@bc527c hmmm I looked up Mpingo wood (on Wikipedia), turns out this type of wood is used for musical instruments, mainly woodwind instruments. It "is used mainly because of its machinability, density, dimensional stability, and moisture repellence", which seem like good properties for making a musical instrument out of. These are all things which can be measured, but "sympathetic harmony with music", well maybe but you've got to define what it means first. Doesn't matter. It doesn't explain *anything* about what a small number of discs of this material would do to the sound in a room ... how does that work? I mean, physically. It's a wooden disc (of a very particular size and shape, I presume?). There are in fact some new types of artificial materials called "meta-materials", which can have all sorts of amazing properties (including acoustics), due to their structure on the micro/nano level. But even if this Mpingo tree somehow naturally grows wood like that, I kind of doubt if these properties would remain if you machine the stuff. BTW, there's a thing about the ethics of buying this wood: "Due to overuse, the mpingo tree is severely threatened in Kenya and is needing attention in Tanzania and Mozambique. The trees are being harvested at an unsustainable rate, partly because of illegal smuggling ..."
Brilliant! I love watching these audiophile videos. One of my favourite quotes is hearing that a very high priced USB cable for a DAC improved the 'timing 'of the music. The timing?!?
Regarding the thick cables going into the wall outlets you are absolutely correct. The terms you were looking for instead of energy reactor would be distribution panel or commonly known as breaker box in the US. The standard amperage rating for NEMA 5-15 outlets (USA & many other countries) is 15A at 125 volts. The copper wiring is a #14 gauge (1.5mm diameter) or very rarely #12 gauge for Aluminum wring (2.05 mm). With this outlet being in his living room it's safe to assume that the common wiring was used. The wires then run to a circuit breaker located in the distribution board (breaker panel) which subdivides the main electric power. The circuit breaker is designed to open the circuit (stop current flow) if the current reaches a certain point. The wires coming from the living room are more than likely going to a circuit breaker rated at 15A. If this amplifier was able to draw the amount of current that wires of that size can handle (assuming that it's not just 90% plastic wrapping and actually mostly copper): 1. The breaker would open the circuit instantly 2. If the breaker was bypassed or swapped out for a higher rated breaker the wires would heat up and possibly catch fire Before I catch flack there also exist 20A outlets with matching circuit breakers. 20A outlets have a different pattern (NEMA 5-20R). Conclusion: Million Dollar Snake Oil
Nine hockey puck's walking down the street-one of them says-"Wanna stand on a stick so we can acousticly dominate?" -The other says: " Only-and only if we gat personaly tuned by Bill Ying-the great one.."
After listening to that system, all I can say is: "The music flows with gusto and verve. It squeezes instrumental images into incredibly palpable outlines. The sound is surprisingly smooth and spacious, a distinct improvement in highs and the deepest rich bass lows I have ever heard. Harmonic textures ebbed and flowed with startling dynamic nuances and the sort of liquidity and purity one only comes to associate with world-class audio products. Spatial detail was painted with a fine brush that readily resolved massed voices and the air around individual instruments. The impression of speed and control was strong. Bass lines were fleshed out with excellent definition. Rendition of harmonic colors was suave and smooth, with a believable sugar coating. Exposure of low-level detail, even in complex passages, without leaving anything to the imagination. The mids are vivid in spades with wave after wave of honey-coated harmonic bliss. It felt like I had crawled into a warm and inviting sonic womb."
And the kicker... Most audiophiles of this kind (age) has a limit of how high frequencies they can hear... I bet his hearing cuts well before 14-15000 Hz. I know MY ears aren’t what they were when I was in my 20’s.
roygalaasen There is always a biggest confusion about high frequencies. What is enough for real sound is not more than 12 kHz and people put too much weight to them . Unfortunately many even young listeners with full capability of hearing have no chance to perceive even that in systems proudly claiming band up to even 25 kHz because of not flat characteristics and effect of masking. . With such faulty sounding gear most people conclude that they lost hearing to upper range. I experienced the same in past but after years with return to LP and good speakers which I used in my young days realized that it was bad recordings and modern speakers problem not my ears.A the same time listening to audiophile system used by my friend with tags about 4 K $ I still do not perceive highest band because it is "audiophile sound" . He also claims that I have much better highs - he says I do wizzards:). Not trained people do not realize how sound particular high frequencies - I had read opinion that alt singer sounds at 10kHz, other said that cymbals are 15 kHz - with such knowledge its stupidity at all. High reality do not equal to sopranos. Also there is no sharp limit - it is only growing slope.
Awesome! I some times read HIFI-blogs and stuff just for the laugh. One time a found some sort of crystal that you were supposed to place on your "stereo" to clean up the sound.
Instead of wooden discs I put hockey discs on the walls and now I can hear full range, crystal clear and amazingly detailed the voice of my wife yelling at me that the living room looks like shit.
Crystals do actually do weird stuff like absorb frequencies as the whole of nature is just frequency and energy so I can see the logic in their thinking but then again flat earthers have got logic but the wrong logic. Thats a good one thanks dude that is beyond crazy if people actually believe crystals cleans up speaker sounds. If anything they would absorb more then give back making it worse. What ever they absorb they give back so their logic sounds incomplete and do not understand how crystals work and I do have crystals for certain things. But maybe I should do a test and put one on my head while listening to my headphones hahahaha. Strange people. I could understand if you used one for say a driver even in cable or something or record deck needle and defo CD/DVD/blueray lazers (which I believe they do) then yes but to just plonk one on a stereo? thats just crazy. I smell placebo"s
just to note and all cpu chips have crystal as they absorb harmonics in electrical circuit board. They obv just read harmonics absorption and assumed they meant the same as harmonics in audio which technically is correct but have to be use at source and will do nothing to audio at the end.... but wait a min we use add harmonics to make music better so why audiophiles why. Now I have bloody good hearing infact amazing hearing and can tell the difference between 16bit wav and 32 wav NO LIE and I dislike MP3 and can hear the difference between analogue and digital (but its getting harder and harder) yes I can really hear the difference and imperfect speakers sound much better to me as they have their own character and these amazing sounding speakers do sound great but I would be extremely happy with speakers that have good ranges and anything above £1500 (if I had a decent room) would not disappoint me. These people spend way too much money on very little improvement if anything make it worse by making it sound perfect. This is why we hate digital because its perfect
American here. In the US we can get 252V outlets in residential buildings (often referred to as washer/dryer outlets) to power large appliances. However, the machine in this video was not a larger plants, and was instead probably made to look like it was handling a lot of voltage and doing a lot of work when it was actually doing nothing.
Great this time! I downloaded the video itself a couple of days ago. It"s so, so funny! 😅 The amazing acoustic "treatment" of the room is a really unsurpassed piece of comedy. By the way: this great "actor" is a retailer, not a manufacturer. All the gear he shows is for sale. Another interesting point: if you look carefully to the three tape machines, you'll discover all of them are the exact same brand and model, in different colours. Nothing more. What a lot of fun! (Besides: a true audiophile is not an audiophool. This last belongs to an irrational species, worth to be officially declared under protection 😂).
I actually started off not liking this guy when I first started watching his videos, I thought he was a bit of a know it all prick however I've quickly come to realise that he is in fact the best person on RU-vid regarding sound engineering and as such I'm now a fully fledged fan!
It is a SHAME to see a speaker system being misrepresented on such a high level. These speakers are one of the only if not the only ones that come closest to the acustical ideal of a spherical radiation pattern and this guy who owns the system can't even explain that or why it is a good thing. In a room, that is not completely dead, you ALWAYS hear the SUM of direct sound (the sound taking the shortest way from the speaker driver to your ear) and diffused sound (all the other sound in the room). For example: If a speaker is flat on axis but doesn't radiate enough high frequency energy into the room it will never sound clear, because in the SUM there will be a lack of high end. Turning up the high end on axis does not solve this problem but further debalances the percieved frequency response. One of the goals of EVERY respectable studio monitor manufacturer (Genelec, Neumann, Geithain, PSI Audio, etc.) is a good dispersion pattern so the sum of direct and diffuse sound is as good as possible in a cardioid pattern speaker system (aka your normal looking speaker), some even state this in their manual. Also delaying the direct sound to be in phase with the diffuse sound is the biggest bullshit I ever heard and that is because of a logical flaw: delaying the direct sound means delaying all of the sound output of the speaker, which as a consequence also delays the diffuse sound, since the direct sound and the diffuse sound are generated at the same place: the drivers. The only way possible to take control over the delay between direct and diffuse sound, would be to have drivers with a laser point like dispersion trough the whole frequency spectrum aimed at your ears and seperate drivers which are fed by separate amplifiers and dsps which will create diffuse sound. BUT with this solution the sound could be only in phase at one point in the room and nowhere else, which would again compromise the sum of both, since it would cause a lot of comb filtering.
White Sea Studio I have heard the mbl system about 10 years ago at a hi-fi show and I remember it to this day. It was very good. It was playing music of a man playing piano and singing jazz style, I don't know what the cd was but it was so realistic that when i walked into the room ,it was a big open room, I initially looked to see who was playing as I thought it was somebody playing live. I stopped to listen and the sound filled the room as would a live pianist would . I did not want to buy one but if I was in a situation where I could then I would be interested to find out more.
Hi. I'll buy a dozen of that 'wood stands+glass jar lids combo" in order to get rid of the lousy music my outdoor neighbour is listening. Do you thing that will solve my problem? Thanks.
So happy I watched this. I watched the same vid and had the same reaction but I always felt stupid as if I was missing something or not educated. My life makes sense again. Thanks.
I started watching audiophile stuff a while back and I find it fascinating, the best I heard was a guy arguing that blind comparisons are flawed, then there’s a 1metre rca cable that costs 12k, it’s absolute madness but at the same time if you have millions of dollars then why not. Is it any different to saying a 58 les Paul sounds better than a modern custom shop.
I'd love to see you build a budget 'audiophile' listening setup in a typical room. I totally agree, that you can build a stunning sounding space for not much money.
there are people who buy 50 cars... people who own 100 different watches...people who travel around the world.... people who work a full month, to update some piecesin their car..and next month, they will upgrade something else..over and over... and you have these rich guys, with 10-100+ millions, who have already bought all they wanted...and just want to have fun, with these pieces of gear... ...and of course, wherever there is someone willing to spend money on something, there will be people building all kinds of gadgets, at some crazy prices. 'hey, mister Simon, if you add these power cables, with this socket made of a magic alloy, you will be able to listen up to negative 20Hz (28...15...8...3...then -5..-20... antimatter basses)' it only costs 25K per unit, or 40k for 1 pair. then, you have those magazines where a guy tests 2 devices, the 1st costs 56'500 $, and the 2nd, 57'800$... and the guy will go 'ohhhh, we can definitely say the 57800$ model is more precise, i was able to better listen and perceive the 47th violin , and the 14th flutist on the left had a much better 3d effect'.... what can we do... it's just some rich kids playing with their legos... and some legos are legendary and uniques...and cost a truck full of cash.
2:30 the thick cable is most likely shielded, where noise is shorted to earth ground. Also, the thicker the cable, the less resistance in the conductors themselves, therefore less of a voltage drop across the conductors themselves (thus there is less stress on the preamps and less noise). Regardless of what’s on the other side of the wall, these will deliver more pure signals.
Radiallstraahlers are good, and being used correctly. Shun Mook weird wooden poles with pucks is just hilarious :) also, the overstuffed couch in the corner of a back wall is more helpful for the audio than even the wall-hung carpets (and those are a pretty decent acoustic treatment)
When I re-set up my musical equipment I try to have the mains cables on the floor and the audio cables at sort of table height - where possible. Am I an audio fool?
That's a lovely example indeed and the wooden disks sound wall stuff is out of this world hilarious! :-) Now, to be fair, many audiophiles do pay a lot of attention to the acoustic of their rooms, cables can make a clearly audible difference and Reel to Reel tape players do deliver a superb sound quality. So not everything is crazy. It is worth their price? Who knows.
The argument about perfect room acoustics doesn't make sens to me. If someone walked in the room and played a real instrument, it would still sound amazing and real right? Even without perfect acoustics. It's a bit like judging the food in a restaurant by the quality of the decor.
I went a few times to some audiophile events long time ago, heard this type of speaker (I think it was a bigger one). It sounded interesting and somewhat dimensional but in a weird way, all sounds came from everywhere (what is to be expected) but I wouldn’t want to listen to it for longer than ten minutes, very fatiguing. I also saw those wooden pucks, there are even bells they claim do the same wizardry. Couldn’t hear the difference at all, would be nice for hockey though. I also remember hearing a lot of very expensive speakers sounding like crap because they didn’t set them up properly. It’s not uncommon they love to play 100 year old music on these expensive systems. What did make an audible difference though are those thick power cables, the cables behind your power outlet are much thicker than the standard power cables. Also running an Isotek “rejuvenation” disc through your speakers has an audible benefit. It’s like a workout for your speakers and sounds a bit like an Autechre album. Best audiophile speakers I can remember were the Martin Logan Renaissance electrostatic speakers, Focal Utopia and the Avantgarde Zero 1
I think it sounds awesome! You have to keep in mind that he is trying to replicate the exact audio and Echo of a small time jazz gig as closely as possible.
I am decently fond of hi-fi equipment, but the amount of bullshit people buy into is ridiculous. I recently got a few pieces of equipment and they sound pretty much like anything else. The only thing different is that in a stereo receiver there is some form of equalizer rack so you can have certain frequencies amplified or taken out of the mix altogether (though audiophiles always say "you should listen to the mix how the band always wanted you to" as a reason to why they have this equipment that changes the sound) AND you can listen to stuff on pretty decently big speakers just because "fuck it". Also... those high frequencies that the camera picked up are just god awful. If you ever want to sell audio equipment, I guess you know who to not hire as your camera man.
You overlooked something that should be highlighted.....the number of bottles in that wine rack, and possibly the vintage of said wines, COULD have some affect on the bandwidth of the program material ...….. just a thought
Man, I freakin love you. Gonna donate to your patron asap. The world needs more real ones like you. 6:58 kills me. "Dude, does the system also include Harry Potter?" lolol Peace and love.
Those "360" speakers are meant to be in a corner, otherwise you'd need a separate controller to compensate for delay. Which you wouldn't really notice specifically, but it would make the sound 'messy'.
Pretty idiotic or troll-y definition. The people buying that crap are just the audiophile equivalent of flat-earthers. In itself audiophile just means you love good sound.
i define "Audiophile" another way. Audiophile literarly means loving Audio or being ?"attracted"? to what the individuum calls subjectively pefect sound. I woulkd consider myself as an audiophile. I have an 1978 Sony STR 5800 Amp and Big Magnat 3 way speakers from 1992. It is a sound i subjectively love and i wont ever go back tro anything like Logitech or 5.1 systems or such. Audiophile is definitely not defined by buying expensive stuff and voodoo stuff for no reason. Thats just dumb and bullshit and pretty closed minded. As dumb as those people are who buy such things. I just want to have that what i consider myself the perfect sound for ME. And i found it with a setup that costz me less than 500 € bought on fleemarket and ebay. Being Audiophile for me means trying to get the subjectively best sound for YOU and loving it. Sure, thumb thick wires are bullshit. Calling vinyl the best is bullshit. Calling tube amps being best is bullshit. I agree with that. But i do not agree with your definition of audiophile because its just not true. Like litterarly. What means Hydrophile? Yes, matter attrackted to water like thos things in packages that are supposed to get humidity outside of the air inside the package. What means pedophile ? Ill men attrackted to children. So why should audiophile mean buying expensive dumb stuff? it does not. There is a failure in your logics.
I once read a turntable review where they marked the "live" pin of the powersupply because it made the sound more dynamic if you "plug it in that way".
My shun Mook incrusted socks have elevated my listening experience by making the spacial sextant acoustic completely contained to my person, best 4,000$ I ever spent
Ya I watched the video of that system too and after all the things he did to make it Sound better, in his opinion, made me just think...this guy is from a different planet that's way out of this world!
I use Winamp and Foobar. I play DVD-Audio and SACD images through my Pioneer Elite receiver in 4.0, I don't use a center channel. I have a lot of old Quadraphonic stuff. I only use the Pioneer amps for rear surround. My front speakers are tri- amped with Gain clone amps and electronic X-Over I built. I have four JBL 12" subwoofer drivers powered by a Berringer DSP 3000. I use Alesis Point Seven monitors for rear channels. I play CD from image files in Foobar, or MP4 in Winamp. I love Winamp and foobar. I am going to put my CD collection uncompressed on flash drives as Image files. PC audio is the way to go with an iPod for the road.
I'd like to see more videos like these. There are people who want to be informed about audio and generally search google or youtube or whatever and will come across these kinds of videos and actually spend a lot of money on things that are probably completely unnecessary and possibly even complete nonsense.
I master on 5 euro soundblaster 2.1 soundsystem. Hehehe But that lowered ceiling will create extra standing waves acting a bit of a speaker. Anyway i don’t really need an acoustic treatment that much cause i know the room and the speakers.
«Sonic room boundary»?! With small blackboard disks on a stick? «Voice contained»? Ir reverberates like madness! That mirror and the framed pictures on the walls all reflecting to each other, there's probably dozens of secondary reflections in that room.
I like how the guy they're visiting in the video is wearing a pyjamas under his sweater (or whatever it is). Always ready for a quick nap. I like that. Like the professor Farnsworth in Futurama always says: "...well, I am already in my pyjamas so...". Seems like holistic mentality is spilling over into the audio industry.
Nice!! Ya these guys are at the extreme, no doubt. I like to watch since they show the best of the best, for the rich. I almost always shake my head at some of the 'audiophoolery' but still enjoy seeing the high end stuff.
Okay this guy drank the Cool Aid. None the less he had the clams to buy it. I am glad he was willing to show case. That gear is impressive. I heard it at the Munich Hi End. Only negative is the sticks. Room treatment would have been cheaper.
Few years ago I accidentally walked into an audiofool butique store and I saw an amplifier that had huge 3x1 meter height valves stuck on top of it!!worth like thousands of euros…that was sooo hilarious😂
Hey this video cracking me up man I haven't laughed so much in ages keep the videos coming can you do a video on the slate pluggins version of the distressor also love to hear your opinion also on the barefoot speaker range.
room treatments a must but not psycho science - here is another one from same channel BUT this guy treats the SHOW room at venue for a trade show week event - crazy stuff! Electronically-controlled Air Suspension (EAS) and Continuous Damping Control (CDC)
Hi with respect to cable, if the system consumes a lot of amperage the cable has to be thick, even if it consumes 110v or 220v the more amperage the greater the cable, on the other hand I do not think it makes much sense to use so much current in a Audio system
I probably have an odd perspective on this but here it is... If I were sitting in a studio watching a guitarist play an acoustic guitar from maybe 10 feet away and there was plenty of volume... even though there could be imperfections caused by walls or whatever then that's "the sound". It is what it is. If a recording were made of that same performance, then what are the goals when mixing it and playing it back? ...Isn't it to accurately reproduce the exact sound that was heard earlier when it was played on guitar? ...or is there more? I think that in a lot of cases there IS more because the artist may want to enhance those sounds to make them even more pleasing to the listener when played back. So, the real question/point is.... where is the line between the reality of an actual original sound and the "fantasy" of the enhanced one? I think that's very important...because it raises the question, "Can the copy be better than the original? If so, I am positively a clone. Thanks : )
I do like the sound of MBL speakers. I've only heard the model above this (their absolute top model), and their 2nd "cheapest". But they aren't near-field monitors, in a treated room, so they wont sound anything like the sound in the room of the sound engineer mixing the tracks. On the other hand without that persons exact hearing, physical and mental, with the exact same speakers in the same room, no speakers will get me the exact intended sound anyway. That is an insight, I've seen missing in both the music production world and the Audiophile world. MBL speakers add "coloration" to the soundstage, in a way I like, even though I know it isn't "correct", I will stand for that. And I would also be willing to use Equalizers, to adopt sound to my taste, and to soften some harsh tones. But then I know that is "colored" sound to my preference, and not chasing perfection (which is impossible to achieve). Here though, there was a lot of audio-foolery going on in that video.
i do not known the exact reason but if you connect the monitors to a power amply with a real top quality power cables, you can notice a little increase in audio quality specially on mid end high end, but if you put a high grade power cable from the wall plug to the power amply, the result is a lot better, i do not know the reason but every one can ear it in a simple test. In a decent hifi setup it is possible to have a big increase in sound quality with only 500 usd of cables, instead of 10.000 usd of ultimate top gears. i have seen this kind of results several times.
Can everyone calm your nerves down. Those little black discs really do work. They're called Shun Mook Mpingo Discs. It's not a twenty-first century invention. I goes back decades.
These people spent a lot of money one this bullshit, because they want to convince *you* to buy it. Audiophiles with brains and a bit of logic, just get the sensible bits, I.e. good quality amps, speakers etc. and some appropriate room treatment etc. - and most people have a budget, so they spend it on things that do actually make a difference, and leave the wooden discs and power cables for the gullible millionaires.
While I dont agree with what is being said in the video about "feet adding dimensionality to the sound" I do know that better feet and absorption pads and wood that is denser is better for audio. Due to less vibration.
I heard this system in a demo years ago and they set up the speakers in a corner of convention centre with one wall being solid and the other wall being glass. Yes. Glass. The vocals were almost entirely out of phase standing in the centre. None of them running the demo seemed to either know not care.
Those pucks are made of stone not wood and they 100% work. What they do is remove frequencies from the room. Index: Frequency = Money Room = Bank Account
Actually if you have a 1000W power supply in that amp, you really need thicker cables than normal. That's because it draws a lot of current and a thin cable could heat up. These cables shouldn't be much more expensive than normal. It was a very fun video, btw :)
vdochev Bullshit. Normal power cables with a 1.5mm2 diameter are rated for 3600 Watts you need bigger cables if you go for lengths of 40 meters and up.
Also, don't compare a compressed and optimized studio to a home theater system. A home theater system, if built properly and professionally, will use the "unoptimized" space as you put it, to bounce timed sounds off the walls with proper placements of speakers and drivers to make sure everything hits your ears in a good timing and the way it's done will make the sounds a lot better. In a studio, you use small spaces, sealed off areas, compression techniques, and sound dampening foams to compress the sound for recording and listening environments. It's different than a home theater system and doesn't work the same.
I will say that this video you're reviewing is not really accurate, and I'm not really sure what they were thinking, but in general, my points have been made. I work in car audio and you will never, ever understand why audiophiles or bassheads are what they are until you hear a good system.
A neurotic is the person who builds a castle in the air; a psychotic is the person who lives in it, and an audiophile is a person who designs the sound system for it.Thank god I got out of this insane industry along time ago.
Brilliant and very funny video I used to be into high end audio until I started making music. I had speaker stands with special "feet" and thick power cable. My wife thought that I was nuts 😂😂
I consider myself an audiophile because the term is extremely vague, and I really love Hi Fi equipment. I don't buy this audiophoolery for a second. The only time I can think of feet making a big difference would be on a turntable and to a much lesser extent, a CD player. Even then, they wouldn't have to be wood feet with diamond spikes on the bottom! Why would you buy cextons with wood pucks when you could invest in some absorbers or diffusers?
I consider myself audiophile... With my pair of active a7x, acoustically treated room and speakers on a proper speaker stands... With a tiny bit of speakers tone adjustments...
thick power cables are both high current capable and easily bendible. moreover, the amplifiers and the drivers are ineffecient so thin power cables affect bass quality
His point is the contract grade 14g electric cable running to that outlet. No matter the thickness and copper oxygen free diamond shit you have going to your amp from that socket, it's still traveling through the standard wire your house has.
I love the radial speaker concept. What type of Electro Magnet is actually driving that speaker in a spherical path? an electromagnetic orb suspended perfectly inside? nope. probably just a linear one, like is in every other speaker.
Being a audiophile since 18 years old. And now a qualified electronics engineer I'm totally agreed with you. Here how it is. Even you have a top of the line highly spec. amplifier as soon as you're connected it to a speaker it is now working under load. It can really messed up the specification of that amplifier. For the Speaker it is working with the acoustic environment that is your room and surfaces. For the source rubbish in rubbish out. So the only thing you can relied on is your ears. System matching. Fine tuning with cables acoustic treatments. For the name or the price they are all bullshits.
dude you are a breath of fresh air , i have been repairing and building hifi for over 30 years and everything you say is true . but sadly some ppl who have more money than brains will always buy into this expensive snake oil stuff . to me that system sounds awfull even with youtube compresion and limited bandwidth . and that so called listening room is a joke
Yep, 14 AWG copper on the other side of the AC outlets in most homes. But people love to spend money on cables. LOL As for the room I can't talk much, My listening room is 10' x 11' x 8', These Philharmonic BMR monitors sure sound good though. And I haven't even smoked anything.
