Recent content by MartinT

Good luck with your 'debate'. By the way, cables can make such a glaringly obvious difference that it's not a case of using science to prove that all such claims are a manifestation of our minds, it's more a case of understanding that science can't yet show what we can hear so we need better...

It's a very poor form of debate to throw such a silly accusation when I've already made it clear that I listen with an open mind and compare notes with others. I'll not bother responding again.

The research is to do with medical placebos. I am not for one minute suggesting we have 100% control over our thoughts and don't see where it might have been implied. Being open-minded is all relative but it is quite adequate for dealing with system upgrades and whether they are worthwhile or not.

It does greatly depend on who you're trying to convince, if anyone. Peer review is a well-known tool, for instance, but when I'm assessing potential upgrades it's only for my own learning. As long as I keep an open mind then I learn something (whether positive or negative) about my own system...

Having an electronics qualification (I have one) has no bearing on what you can hear when listening to music. Some insight into science may help, but we are still a very long way short of being able to measure what we can hear. Meanwhile, expectation bias can be simply overcome by not having...

As I thought. ;)

What is the accepted measurement set that tells us exactly how a cable will sound? How do you measure a grounding box? What is the measurement that quantifies depth perception in a stereo soundstage? Why does an amp with an oversized power supply sound better than the exact same one with an...

I use Qobuz Studio and Spotify HQ, only having listened to Tidal on occasion. Qobuz streams vary but are overall very slightly brighter sounding than Spotify. This can make them more fatiguing but it depends on the harshness of the original recording. Consequently, great recordings (such as...

The bearing in the Mk. 2 is definitely the weak point and holds back the performance of the rest of the deck.

Thanks, Alan. The absolute core of why the Technics SL-1210 is worth all the effort of pursuit is that fabulous direct drive motor and drive circuit, followed by the extremely dead sandwich plinth. There has never been a modding race in my mind and I certainly haven't bothered with bling...

AoS is now up again.

...there's nothing like dual reality!

The AoS server in the hosting company has gone down, and they are proving very difficult to contact. Sorry about the loss of the site, there's not much we can do and we probably won't be up again until tomorrow morning.

Yep, he's on the case.

Nick's working on the Deprecated errors. Nearly there...