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No disrespect or low level of respect intended. We each hear what we hear, and we are happy with what we hear. From experience, I am aware of the dangers of hearing what is actually not there. I am perfectly happy for purchasers of Peter Belt devices to hear improvements, provided that I'm not...

You're right of course about Belt and the fact that his peculiar devices are poles apart from amplifier design, but the basic principle mentioned by Gordon Holt holds true for both - we filter what we perceive through our senses via all our previous experiences/preferences/preconceptions, often...

Like Flanders and Swann! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL5SzTSMxLU

Since I acquired my first hi-fi in 1972, I'm not sure that they're all that limited. Having said that, I am admittedly not a great box-swopper, but I have heard lots. And working in the field of human senses (in my case, taste and smell), I know how easily fooled these are. In short, I don't...

Well, you might - or you might not. Either way, enjoy it, that's what it's all about, and simply ignore old scientific killjoys.

Not sure what a class D amplifier is, but I have both valve and transistor amps, and to me they sound the same. perhaps I'm simply a deaf old git,..,.

Interesting, thank you. I struggle to comprehend how an amplifier circuit can make a deeper bass, but that may be my ignorance talking. Might it be merely that the amp is slightly more powerful, thereby causing the speaker cones to move with greater amplitude, producing more bass? But...

Point taken, and I confess that my knowledge of electronics doesn't extend much beyond the ability to spell the word correctly (most of the time anyway). However, some simple logical considerations would seem to me to prevail. An amplifier is a device for taking a small electrical signal and...

I personally would make that a largish bag of salt. The question (to which I have no satisfactory answer) is, why do reviewers feel the need to write such obvious toss? I give them the benefit of the doubt in that I think many are true believers. There is an unfortunate tendency among humanity...

Pleased to hear it! My favourite cables story comes from the late John Dunlavy, founder of Duntech speakers. He would demonstrate cables to his customers, technicians behind the speakers holding up each pair of cables to be heard. The customers naturally heard "night and day" differences...

P.S. In retrospect, that, I think, is the most important observation of all. I come from a boring scientific background and still work in those fields. so I'm well acquainted with the properties of materials. I'm also well acquainted of just how easily human senses can be deceived - this is the...

From Wikipedia: The high-end speaker wire industry markets oxygen-free copper as having enhanced conductivity or other electrical properties that are supposedly advantageous to audio signal transmission. In fact, conductivity specifications for common C11000 (ETP) and higher-cost C10200...

This article is a fine example of why I'd never subscribe to any hi-fi magazine.

The most normally encountered copper is everyday electrical copper, which is 99.95% Cu. To say that anything purer (if realistically achievable) would sound different is pure delusion. However, I am happy for people to hear what they want to hear, so long as I'm not also expected to hear it.