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I owned Quads both 57 and 63. I consider the ESL-63 to be the best commercial design for an electrostat ever with the delayed concentric rings. I had hoped someone would take up the mantle with more concentric rings and larger panels or vertically segmented tall panels with delays between the...

A simple test we know to be flawed inherently and deceptive.

Yes. Where do you think the Mastering thing comes from? It was a necessity when they started pressing LPs. You cannot put tape on the discs due to many issues. So mastering was altering the original sound to allow it to fit on the pressed MASTER for making the LPs. By definition and...

I think it depends on the movie. Some have English subtitles only for only the non-English portion as part of the movie. Some do not. If they don't, then what you doing with closed captioning is your only option.

So the equivalent to the GOOD version would be to use a shielded XLR cable for the whole run between power amp and preamp. Then on the RCA end use an RCA to male XLR adapter at the preamp output. Same basic result. Easy to do. Cheap shielded XLR cables from Monoprice would be fine for this...

Yeah, we need that 8k/120 hz format. Then you will get highly detailed views of films made with anamorphic lenses. This to blur everything other than the center to give it that artistic film look. :facepalm:

It is like asking why someone makes a steel belted radial which is complex, requires machinery few can afford, when one can build a perfectly serviceable wooden wheel with simple hand tools. There are people still making such wheels. In the larger context it is a non-starter. An op-amp has...

I don't know the particulars, but Soundlab's PX coated panels are said to be exceptional. The owner says they can be considered heirloom speakers that can be passed down to subsequent generations with the PX panels. In my experience the other part of ESL's that need attention are the high...

Look for a couple of 8 times through or 8th generation threads I've posted. Files are still available for downloads. No compression used. It is listed several times just in this thread. There is also an online place where someone did this for 1000 generations...

Another part of the tale behind simple circuits is every component matters. If your circuit is simple, you can afford to use the highest quality components. If your circuit is complex those are cost prohibitive. And that tale is easy for people to think about just that way. In fact all that...

Ridiculous as simple as that. Not what Scott Wurcer said either.

But why do you want discrete simple line stages? I get the fascination and the implied philosophy. But if what you really want is performance, it is irrelevant. You asked if there are other things than linearity, distortion and low noise. I would add frequency response and beyond that there...

I for a long time believed in the simple circuit. Built some myself for preamps. They can be good to excellent. But minimalism is really a misguided myth in audio. Really no reason for any modern preamp not to be op-amp based. That is simple functionally, but it hides some complexity inside...

The Crown has two settings for sensitivity. I would select the higher one which is 1.4 v RMS for full output. The ZED 10 can put out about 8 volts max. So using an attenuator something like this one between the ZED and power amp is probably a good idea. Will knock down the level by 20 db...

Silver crucifixes are useful as I recall from a past life.

AQ has a Midnight line of cables. Maybe good for a vampire. Of course there is the Vampire line of cables. No silver in that line of cabling.

It is a hurdle you will need to get over to benefit from the knowledge of people on this forum. Differences have to be truly huge to be observed accurately in the kind of listening you are doing. Whether your results are positive, negative, match blind results or don't are not the point. The...

It is what DonH56 said. Silver plating ( I should have been more specific). Pitting and resistance to arc over. Though silver tarnishes, that tarnish is very soft and silver plating lets a heavily loaded contact push thru it where it might have pitting or not fully go thru copper tarnishing...

High voltage high current switchgear uses silver. There are a few reasons not related to signal quality in audio. And I do mean high current as in thousands of amps.

Hosa is like one thin layer above bottom of the barrel. Not likely to see it in studios.