AudioSceptic
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I'm really board now (groan).That just floors me...
I'm really board now (groan).That just floors me...
Yes! I need better SQ Led Zeppelin. What can you recommend?talk about all these different masterings and pressings (some going for ridiculous $$$) of Led Zep II ... and the first track - Whole Lotta Love - just sounds like crap. The distortion and all, which gets worse as Page and Kramer got excited on that old 12 channel rotary console they mixed it on.
Watch that vid at the end where at the fade the original that was "remastered" in 2014 just sounds hideous... as did the old pressings and CD
I think this is Geoff Kait’s best tweak ever and it’s free!
Fulton cables were prior to Monster. (I didn't watch the video). William Low of Audioquest was selling a LiveWire brand prior to starting AQ and roughly the same time Monster was started. I suppose Monster was the first widely known company for such cables.
Feels like he could sue for copyright infringement against lots of these guys, "hey, I invented crazy".Too bad Peter Belt has passed on.
In the UK the first branded cables I was aware of were QED 79-Strand and Radio Spares 56-Strand. This was late 70s, I think, but does anyone know exactly when?Fulton cables were prior to Monster. (I didn't watch the video). William Low of Audioquest was selling a LiveWire brand prior to starting AQ and roughly the same time Monster was started. I suppose Monster was the first widely known company for such cables.
That must have been fun to do. How did you get access to the original tapes?Listen to my remix comparison - which ain't much - but a lot better than what these golden ears marketturds are stating:
http://www.ajawamnet.com/ajawam2/lzcompare_0006.mp4
I think this is Geoff Kait’s best tweak ever and it’s free!
The Photos in the Freezer Tweak is simple. Place two photos of yourself, one a younger photo and the other a more recent photo in separate clear ziplock bags. With a fine tip RED PEN write on one side of each ziplock bag,
‘x = PRESENT TIME
and on the other side with RED PEN write,
‘x 26 ‘x
Note that x is lower case.
Place the finished two ziplock bags with photos in the freezer and keep them there.
Then listen to some things you’re familiar with and see if the sound is improved. You do not have to wait until the photos are frozen. If you are not sure if the sound improved, try taking the photos out of the freezer and listen again without the photos. If you hear the sound as improved with the photos IN the freezer you can leave them there.
Copied from: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussi...y-design-or-by-tweaking?page=3&sort_order=asc
Martin
Wtf is this.geoffkait said:Unfortunately the explanation is beyond scope of this discussion. Even if it wasn’t it’s a very long story. It’s not easy to explain, either. But the key is that cryogenic and home freezing processes involve Morphic resonance in addition to straightforward physical science. This idea of information fields and low temperatures is perhaps best demonstrated by the notorious Photos in the Freezer Tweak. Of course, the idea that the home freezer can be made more powerful than -300 deep cryo is blasphemy to every audiophile who thinks all tweaks are snake oil and believes “sound engineering principles” are the golden path to audio Nirvana.
It's called irony. You'd have to be a millenial to understand.Wtf is this.
That must have been fun to do. How did you get access to the original tapes?
In 1978 I started working at Opus One in Pittsburgh. We were a dealer for Dahlquist - fixed many a DQ10.
I recall the cobra stuff.... lots of sales guys wanted to sell it. As far as our lab was concerned - all snake oil. Had no bearing on any measurable parameter. What was interesting was the Blue Litz coax wire we sold.
Pain in the ass to solder to the gold RCAs...
I'd get a 500' spool for $75.00 ... Id chop (2) 3 foot pieces off - solder some gold RCA's on it ( to solder litz wire you need to get the lacquer to melt back during tinning) and sell them for over 100 bucks...
Now on some systems - it actually loaded things up a bit funky and if you did a sweep thru it you'd see a slight rise as it went up in freq due to the funky loading.
Not one of these silly high end wire companies ever refers to Schaum's book on transmission lines, nor even knows who Oliver Heaviside is.
That'd be like a surgeon who has no idea what Gray's Anatomy is (no, not Grey's the silly TV show) ...
"Hello Mr. Simpson!!"
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Unless he stands to profit from it.Still, you would think a practicing physicist would be the least likely person to fall for audio cable myths.
A real piece of history there. I appreciate you sharing that.Confession is good for the soul. Regarding the Cobra cables, I believe I was the first in the US to write about how cables could audibly influence music reproduction and in particular how much of an improvement the Cobras were. This was for the St Louis area very small circ magazine called AudioGram. I remember a professor at the University of Wisconsin, R. Greiner, took me to task. How he found out about it is a mystery. No mystery in that later in life I found out - slowly - that he was right. I still have the Cobras, free to anyone who wants them.