Panty Saluter posted:

Has anyone actually bought these, and if so how snobby are they about graphic equalizers?

Phanatic posted:

They're snobby, but they're very discrete about it.

A Lone Girl Flier posted:

I heard their favourite movie is the Fast and the Fouriers.

qirex posted:

Olympic Mathlete posted:

wait, it's not even adjustable, just an on/off switch?

repiv posted:

Could you kick up the uh, 2c3d3d3?

qirex posted:

The thing that's funny about stuff like this to me is I bet the guys [let's be honest, it's basically all dudes] who build all these ridiculous Rube-Goldberg-ian audio products must believe they work to some degree, like someone spent a full year of their life with a spectrum analyzer and a soldering iron designing all this stupid bullshit and he's actually proud of his work.

D1E posted:

Uh... I'm willing to bet they absolutely know that they're fleecing gullible imbeciles.

KillHour posted:

The bigger issue is the tile floor. Also, the way your TV and speakers are angled makes it look like they fold over the fireplace like a transformer for smaller packaging and now I'm upset that they don't.

qirex posted:

In fact it's probably super challenging to make something that complicated that doesn't just ruin the signal.

KillHour posted:

The bigger issue is the tile floor.

EL BROMANCE posted:

We need to work out flooring tiers, as tile is all good. It’s only the carpeteers that should be shamed.

XBenedict posted:

Ceramic tile is garbage, and not just for acoustics.

shortspecialbus posted:

You're assuming that most audiophile gear doesn't just ruin the signal and/or that it's actually complicated and not just a super basic DSP with some knobs set to do something really minor. I'll also guess that pretty much all the parts were readily available and did not require any expensive custom design.

grack posted:

That's clearly a joke post.

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Baking with ERS Paper

Since I removed all the ERS Paper I had a lot of small pieces of ERS Paper, I didn't know what to do with them, so I made a Valhalla with toilet paper rolls in 3 layers. The live and neutral signals are inside their own tubes, Tara Labs style.

I didn't think it would take so long to make, minutes turned into hours, hours turned into days. After 12 hours I already started hallucinating, it felt like someone was in my room looking at me. I didn't want to spend the time drinking water because I wanted to finish the cable. I didn't want any toilet breaks either. After a while my vision started getting blurry but since I'm no quitter, I just kept on going to the end. At one point it felt like I was baking rollcake.

It was the first and probably the last time I ever make a cable with 3 layers of ERS. The ERS Paper around my 1m Valhalla power cord costs almost a grand.

I used a dozen toilet paper rolls, cotton thread, packing tape, packing foam, dozens of sheets of ERS Paper.
All the layers of ERS Paper are separated with 1cm, because less than 1cm makes it sound muddy.


Listening

I have a 1m Valhalla plugged into the wall that has a single layer of ERS with 2-3 layers around the connectors. I switched to my newly baked triple layer Valhalla with nude connectors. It sounded a little smoother but the difference was very small. I switched back and forth and eventually didn't hear a difference.

Then it was time to compare a nude Valhalla vs my triple layer one. I had nude conductors hardwired into the Toroidal transformer of my DAC1 and the other end was plugged into Premier Power Plant. I replaced it with the triple layer Valhalla and the difference was HUGE. The whole openness flavor had shifted into blackness with more low-level detail, it is scary with new sounds all over the place. Based on previous experiments, the improvements with ERS Paper are cumulative. The more you wrap, the bigger the improvements. After the full system is wrapped and you have a tiny gap somewhere, it is audible.

Next I'm going to wrap my amp.

Khablam posted:

No electricity. Full EM 'shielding'.

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There was a significant improvement in clarity every time I placed a component on the Stillpoints. My jaw did not "drop", as I have experienced similar results before with the two Symposium Acoustics Rollerblocks. But "clearly", the Stillpoints are in the same league of excellence. The improvement seemed to be the equivalent of a major component upgrade, whether the Stillpoints were placed under my $300 tuner, or my $6,000 pre-amplifier. Nothing seemed immune to the beneficial effect of the Stillpoints, no matter what the priced point.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

I was loving around with my PA last night as I'm throwing a party soon and it'll be rolled out for the occasion. My DCX2496 has always behaved a little oddly in that I could never get the input summing to work properly for the sub feeds. I resorted to a youtube video and after faffing around with it and trying the method THREE TIMES it eventually clicked and worked. So now instead of the sub channels being fed from one half of the input, it's now summed from both. It's me, the audiophile tweaker.

Ashex posted:

No idea where to post this question so I'm trying here. I've got a FiiO E10 DAC that has served me faithfully over the years, recently the headphone jack has been failing on me with sound cutting out/dropping depending on how I jiggle the cable.
I'm assuming the jack needs to be replaced and this might be the right part but shipping to Germany is insane so I'm wondering if anyone would know where I can source that part for a better price.