Recent content by Jeff@TONE

You keep blathering about "trusting the science" You liked your canare cables better than cardas. What's scientific about that? And not really knowing how your room is tuned, what your hearing is and what your own personal bias is, the fact that you prefer a set of basic cables neither means...

Yep, that's what they tell me too. What I have noticed with some USB cables was a definite difference in the spatial qualities of the music and brittleness on the extreme HFs. And, even the Vivaldi ONE sounds markedly better with an external word clock, so I'm hanging my hat on timing is...

I can't even begin to unpack all this. Do a cursory search on the web for some of the better digital designers. (hardware, not cables) There are some pretty succinct explanations, a lot to do with timing errors. If I understand them all correctly, there's a lot more going on when decoding high...

All that might be true for sending data to a printer. But again, why I'm not going down that rabbit hole.

You know that cable thing is just weird. But at the end of the day, your ears are probably a lot more sensitive to minute changes than instruments can measure. I've always looked at cable in the context of a high performance audio system is the last 2-5% of performance to be extracted. I always...

The Schiit stuff is good value for the money, as they are factory direct. So you’re going to get a lot more performance for the dollar at the 1k price point. I am pretty sure they offer a return policy, so that’s not a bad way to go at all

As for the “prose” there can be a huge difference in DACs but then there might not be. By and large the sound of a DAC comes down a lot more to implementation than it does specific hardware. Much of the difference perceived in sound will depend on the resolution of the system used as well. A...

Not knowing what your “thing” is makes it pretty hard to make a suggestion. If you’ve bought a relatively new player, more than likely a $1000 DAC isn’t going to move the needle that much. Consider something that you can buy from an online retailer that can be returned. That’s really the only...

Will do. IT's going to be fun to really be able to stretch out. I used to have my CLX's in a 16 x 24 foot room on the long wall and it was great but always felt a little cramped. This way, being able to move the couch back about 12-14 feet is going to be great. Will be pairing them up with a six...

say have you sold these yet?

Hello all. It's been a long time. Looking forward to getting back into MartinLogan world. Hoping to hang out a bit and at some point find a pair of nice used CLXs. As some of you that read TONE know, they used to be my reference speaker. Honestly my only complaint was that they were a little...