Rant: Microphone Preamps and audiophiles - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

G-Benz · #1 03-22-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by toomany MBZ

Sounds like someone with golden ears, best left to their own devices.

They WILL hear a difference when there is no way of recording it. If it can't be measured, there is no difference, period.

This is an argument you can't win.

...and why audiophile companies can thrive selling 99.999% oxygen-free pure copper high-end cables that cost more than the average sound system!

Kind of like the vintage Gibson "Les Paul" ('58 I think) that has a unique sound tone due to a manufacturing defect whereas the bridge pickup transformer has one more additional winding than the other!!!

Who hears this stuff!???

mgburg · #2 03-24-2011, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by G-Benz

...and why audiophile companies can thrive selling 99.999% oxygen-free pure copper high-end cables that cost more than the average sound system! ... Kind of like the vintage Gibson "Les Paul" ('58 I think) that has a unique sound tone due to a manufacturing defect whereas the bridge pickup transformer has one more additional winding than the other!!! ... Who hears this stuff!???

NO ONE DOES!!!

OH GOD!!!! WE PROVED THIS LAST FALL!!!!

THERE IS NO DISCERNABLE DIFFERENCE (I ***** YOU NOT!!!!) BETWEEN 99.99999% OXYGEN-FREE-PURE COPPER H.E. CABLES AND 30' OF RUSTY BARBED-WIRE!

In a conference room full of TV and Radio Engineers from around the midwest and California, (OK, there was some alcohol in the room too!) and from behind an opaque panel, an amplifier and two seperate speakers were all connected, properly, with the above mentioned items along with 3-4 other styles of cables...one style being a set of jumper-cables from one of the attendee's car. Different levels of music (as well as the music itself) were played and repeated with each material tested...

When all the votes were counted, IT WAS A FRICKIN' UNBELIEVABLE, ROTHLOAO (Rolling on the floor, laughing our @55e5 off) TIE!!!!!

NO WINNERS. NO LOSERS.

ANYONE that thinks they can hear the difference needs a free session of OCD-Management. And a free jacket that has the arms crossing the chest and are fastened at the back after passing through the legs from the front. Buckles, chains and padlocks are at the option of the listener to the insane.

okyoureabeast · #3 03-25-2011, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mgburg

NO ONE DOES!!!

OH GOD!!!! WE PROVED THIS LAST FALL!!!!

THERE IS NO DISCERNABLE DIFFERENCE (I ***** YOU NOT!!!!) BETWEEN 99.99999% OXYGEN-FREE-PURE COPPER H.E. CABLES AND 30' OF RUSTY BARBED-WIRE!

In a conference room full of TV and Radio Engineers from around the midwest and California, (OK, there was some alcohol in the room too!) and from behind an opaque panel, an amplifier and two seperate speakers were all connected, properly, with the above mentioned items along with 3-4 other styles of cables...one style being a set of jumper-cables from one of the attendee's car. Different levels of music (as well as the music itself) were played and repeated with each material tested...

When all the votes were counted, IT WAS A FRICKIN' UNBELIEVABLE, ROTHLOAO (Rolling on the floor, laughing our @55e5 off) TIE!!!!!

NO WINNERS. NO LOSERS.

ANYONE that thinks they can hear the difference needs a free session of OCD-Management. And a free jacket that has the arms crossing the chest and are fastened at the back after passing through the legs from the front. Buckles, chains and padlocks are at the option of the listener to the insane.

You sir are great. That is exactly what I did to my friend with the exact same recording played through the same pre amp. He claimed the recording one was significant better than the other