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Fair enough on the ballerina advantages, I can see your point. My NAD LP player came with kinda-pointy rubber ones, but I just thought it would be silly on a CD player component, since it's digital data being read from a pretty forgiving source rather than an analog vibration-based signal which is easily altered by me walking around in my heavy shoes

Does it really make that much of a difference, or is it one of those "teeny tweaks"? Now I'm interested. Maybe I shouldn't scoff at wealthy audiophiles after all...I guess it was his claim that he could "really hear the difference" that made me a little suspicious.

>>Fair enough on the ballerina advantages, I can see your point. My NAD LP player came with kinda-pointy rubber ones, but I just thought it would be silly on a CD player component, since it's digital data being read from a pretty forgiving source rather than an analog vibration-based signal which is easily altered by me walking around in my heavy shoes Smile

stewie, you are correct in your thinking

the argument in favor of doing this kind of jazz is that vibration causes the laser in the cd player to mistrack, introducing errors into the datastream, which corrupt the audio qual, blah blah

personally, i think it's a bunch of crap

something like a quarter of the bits written to a cd are redundant information, used specifically to repair the (many) errors any old cd has in its data

to get into interpolation of data, the cd has to either be scratched, or the mechanism has to be mistracking pretty significantly for some other reason

if you actually put the cd player on the floor, you might get into this territory

but if it's on a shelf, save your money

no one EVER carefully A/Bs this shit

>>Does it really make that much of a difference, or is it one of those "teeny tweaks"? Now I'm interested. Maybe I shouldn't scoff at wealthy audiophiles after all...I guess it was his claim that he could "really hear the difference" that made me a little suspicious.

he should do a blind ABX test

i like these a lot

here's an audio sample of A, here's a sample of B

now here's X. is this A or B? you can listen to A and/or B again, compared to X, at this point.

here's another X. A or B?

do that about 20 times, and you get an idea of what you can and cannot hear

they aren't simple tests to set up, and someone is bound to complain that one cord is 1/10 of an inch longer or ten days older than another, so who knows how easy it is to convince this way

There's a new type of cable in town. Throw out your $300/meter cables; you haven't been spending enough. Not by a long shot.

Jena Labs

= Justin

Justin from Queens wrote:There's a new type of cable in town. Throw out your $300/meter cables; you haven't been spending enough. Not by a long shot.

Jena Labs

= Justin

I'm totally going to buy thirty feet of DreamDancer to connect my iPod to my AKAI combo stereo.

Do it Faiz, Let your music ride free.

Wait!

This is even better.

... micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path ...

I gotta ask for a raise!

= Justin

Don't forget to check out their reasonably priced Behringer Mods.

It's killin' me I tells ya!

= Justin