Recent ones output 4K natively. Older models can only do 1080p at most. Same for cable/sat boxes, Blu-ray players, etc.Of course, brain not engaged. Scaling, although most game consoles don't scale from FHD but something higher.
Recent ones output 4K natively. Older models can only do 1080p at most. Same for cable/sat boxes, Blu-ray players, etc.Of course, brain not engaged. Scaling, although most game consoles don't scale from FHD but something higher.
As I said, brain not on today. The scaling I refer to is the internal scaling....Recent ones output 4K natively. Older models can only do 1080p at most. Same for cable/sat boxes, Blu-ray players, etc.
I'm not really a die-hard objectivist, but I read stuff like that and just wonder what would the mechanism for that be?On topic:
Didn't read the whole thread but it seems that the need for cable burn in was created years ago. A comment from hometheaterhifi.com:
"I used to be skeptical of the whole burn-in/break-in debate until I purchased a pair of horrifically expensive MIT speaker cables as an upgrade to my existing system. Initially, they rendered my system unlistenable! I called the dealer who explained the cables needed time to settle in. Since I had a dedicated music listening space, I dialed my FM tuner to a 24 hour radio station, set the volume about a third of max and shut the door. The next day I walked into the room and ran back out! This continued for several more days. By the sixth day, feeling uttery discouraged and pissed off for wasting my money on such expensive garbage, I decided to bring them back so I angrily yanked open the room's door and was bowled over by the change. It went from sounding like a rake being pulled across a chalk board at 60mph to smooth, liquid, holographic, and exquisitely tonally balanced. The change was far from subtle. I spent less than 10 minutes in the room during the first week and the room door stayed shut so it wasn't a case of getting used to the sound of the new cables. Nothing else in the system was changed during that week. After that experience, I lost my skepticism. Later, I'd heard that the dealer had bought some sort of cable burn-in device after more than a few sets of the same cables were returned by less patient clients."
This is a fun read:
https://mitcables.com/mit-cables-technologies/
Also a review from The absolute sound for $88,099.00 – $97,099.00 "speaker cables":
“MIT’s ACC268 “Articulation Control Consoles” are undoubtedly the world’s most expensive speaker cables, but they are unlike any cables extant. The control consoles are 45-pound enclosures housing the network along with unique adjustments that allow you to tune the cable to your system. This tuning has nothing to do with tonal balance, but rather with a dynamic verve in different parts of the frequency range.”
On topic:
Didn't read the whole thread but it seems that the need for cable burn in was created years ago. A comment from hometheaterhifi.com:
"I used to be skeptical of the whole burn-in/break-in debate until I purchased a pair of horrifically expensive MIT speaker cables as an upgrade to my existing system. Initially, they rendered my system unlistenable! I called the dealer who explained the cables needed time to settle in. Since I had a dedicated music listening space, I dialed my FM tuner to a 24 hour radio station, set the volume about a third of max and shut the door. The next day I walked into the room and ran back out! This continued for several more days. By the sixth day, feeling uttery discouraged and pissed off for wasting my money on such expensive garbage, I decided to bring them back so I angrily yanked open the room's door and was bowled over by the change. It went from sounding like a rake being pulled across a chalk board at 60mph to smooth, liquid, holographic, and exquisitely tonally balanced. The change was far from subtle. I spent less than 10 minutes in the room during the first week and the room door stayed shut so it wasn't a case of getting used to the sound of the new cables. Nothing else in the system was changed during that week. After that experience, I lost my skepticism. Later, I'd heard that the dealer had bought some sort of cable burn-in device after more than a few sets of the same cables were returned by less patient clients."
Especially if you use multiples of only one cable.I wonder if anyone has made a box that can switch between several expensive cables - A button could be labeled "3D Liquidity" and if you press it, it would switch to using MIT cables. And so on... "Bigger Soundstage" then switch to another expensive cable... "MO' MUSICALITY" another one!
You could even combine them so if you press the Soundstage and the Musicality buttons you can have those cables in parallel, because, OBVIOUSLY the effect will combine, right?
I am telling you - the next step is PROFIT!
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Well, the box would add undesirable colo(u)ration that would, of course, markedly reduce the audiophilical mojo of the various cables.I wonder if anyone has made a box that can switch between several expensive cables - A button could be labeled "3D Liquidity" and if you press it, it would switch to using MIT cables. And so on... "Bigger Soundstage" then switch to another expensive cable... "MO' MUSICALITY" another one!
You could even combine them so if you press the Soundstage and the Musicality buttons you can have those cables in parallel, because, OBVIOUSLY the effect will combine, right?
I am telling you - the next step is PROFIT!
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With complex impedance, there is only one Ohm's law.Oh, and -- does the combination of cable mojos in series vs. parallel follow Ohm's Law for resistance/impedance, or is it like capacitance?
ahem. it was a joke, OK?With complex impedance, there is only one Ohm's law.
Well, the box would add undesirable colo(u)ration that would, of course, markedly reduce the audiophilical mojo of the various cables.
EDIT: Oh, and -- does the combination of cable mojos in series vs. parallel follow Ohm's Law for resistance/impedance, or is it like capacitance?
But, but... I still don't know how magic in series compares to magic in parallel.Neither - IT IS.... MAGIC!
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I got tired of using my long RCA cables to interconnect small DACs and Amps so decided to get a short one. Saw one on Amazon (by "World's Best Cables') that used Canare Star-Quad cable and Amphenol connectors for just $22 shipped. My time was worth much more than that to make one so I ordered it. It came promptly. When I opened though, I was shocked to see this massive sign in there:
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Are you kidding me? Even a low-cost cable using proper material spreads such a myth?
It is one thing to see this on multi-thousand dollar cables but on a $22 one?
Inside there is an instruction sheet and it says that again. To their credit they acknowledge that such burn-in will take out of Amazon's 30 day return window so they provide instructions on how to still get a return.
The danger here is that such practices will spread to the general public, not just high-end audiophiles.
Yes, it is also "directional" although here, it is due to the way they utilize the shield at one end so that bit is fine.