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Post by MartinT on Apr 22, 2024 4:36:15 GMT
Nice find Martin, lty funny that even running FMC, that how much of a influence a patch cable can have. l'll have to checkout this Cable, l have to ask.. Any reason you opted for Cat7,when CAT 8 is available? Good question: it was a direction given by my Thai friend and an inkling that the Cat7 cables, being the first to include double-shielding (twisted pairs and overall), and high bandwidth, would be more carefully, and expensively, constructed. I also trust uGreen, been using their cables at work for a long time and they're well made. Their ethernet to USB adapters are the only ones I know that don't need drivers across the board, even for Macs. This one also looks well designed if you look at the exploded image above. Remember, the uGreen Cat7 replaced a Supra Cat8.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 20:02:20 GMT
So being curious I located a Ugreen Cat 7 cable in my storage box and replaced a rather pricy Cat 8 cable with Telegartner ends. Now I'm scratching my head wondering how a much cheaper cable could sound so good. Wow - at both "you just happened to have a uGreen Cat7 in your storage box" and that you hear the same as Mike and me. Fun discovery, isn't it?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 19:59:44 GMT
I recently saw the newest Kong x Godzilla film. It is magical. So different than previous efforts. Truly. Just wonderful. It is the Thor: Ragnarok of the Kong/Godzilla universe. I just could not spend cinema money on something I know I would dislike. I don't understand the reference as I haven't seen that either. Now, SF films like Arrival and Annihilation really resonated with me.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 17:34:55 GMT
Oh, gosh, I hadn't realised he was that old.
RIP Andrew Davis, I watched many a Prom of yours on TV or live.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 17:20:41 GMT
"Grande Utopia EVO driven by 740W Naim Statement amps. On female voice, the huge Focals sounded a bit boxy and veiled"
Spot the obvious issue in the above "statement".
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 17:07:04 GMT
I've been thinking about that Usher video above and my Be-20 speakers, which are much larger than the model featured (ML-802).
I can't help feeling amazed that I had the opportunity to buy back in 2008 speakers that I suspected, but certainly didn't know, would probably be my life speakers. As Tony once said to me "you'll be buried in those Ushers, Martin" - well, that'll leave one spare! Not only did I deliberately push the boat out for the larger Be-20 (I demo'd the Be-10), but I'm thinking about the workmanship that went into them from fabricating that gorgeous curvy enclosure to making the drivers and building and finishing them. Not to mention shipping them to the UK to fulfil my custom order. How did I acquire such serious build quality for such a relatively low price? I happened to come across some money that year, I happened to move into my own house becoming, once again, single and I hit upon a relatively short spell when Usher was actually represented in the UK. It all started when I was at my sister's in Houston and bought a copy of The Absolute Sound.
Here I am, 16 years later, and the same speakers just have not stopped improving with the system. If I were to be looking for a viable alternative now, which would be the Wilson Sasha at a minimum, I would be looking at whatever the UK markup would be on $52,000 US list price. And they would barely match the Ushers in capability rather than pull forward.
I made the purchase bargain of a lifetime that day - all the planets aligned for me. I said it elsewhere and I never take it for granted: "how lucky am I?"
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 16:35:15 GMT
Really ? Not sure I can believe my ears and will swap and check again but that is a big step up, mainly in the bass, presence, separation Will leave it in for a day or three and swap back Pretty much mirrors my surprise. It's not as if the Supra Cat8 I was using is a slouch, but the uGreen Cat7 does sound a bit special. I have mine running the Tara Labs burn-in because, well, everything changes a bit after use. Bit of a bargain and I have thanked my Thai colleague in the Facebook forum for suggesting Cat7 cables - not the uGreen, which was my choice from the myriad available on Amazon.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 16:02:56 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 13:19:29 GMT
Idiots (mostly from abroad) who still don't understand the name of our country.
Was filling in an Adobe (yes, I know) online form and had to select our country. Scroll down the list to find UK and it's not there. Here we go again...
Find it listed as GB - United Kingdom. Fuck's sake!
GB stands for Great Britain which is not a country. It is the name for the largest island in the British Isles and is a geographical name.
It only took the DVLA about a century to fix it and the Olympics still get it wrong.
Gah!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 12:33:11 GMT
Well, I guess it reached Uk, UK, UK safely as it's here!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 9:42:08 GMT
But... it's not yellow.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 8:26:43 GMT
I have a couple of classic late 19th century science text books, one physics and one chemistry. They pre-date radium and radioactivity, for instance.
I do also have my collection of Leslie Charteris The Saint books, the first of which (Meet the Tiger) appeared in the late 1920s.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 8:14:25 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 21:31:12 GMT
Mr Goshness featuring Kaliandra Capri.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 21:26:44 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 20:33:27 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 20:08:23 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 19:43:00 GMT
telephone enquiries that say they can obatin 10Hz and hear this frequency in their room Yeah, through bookshelf speakers, no doubt. I don't know about doubling, more like quadruple the frequencies being reproduced in the bass. You can't hear 10Hz and even a very large 64' organ pipe creates a barely perceptible 16Hz vibration if you have big speakers capable of it at all.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 16:02:40 GMT
Looks like Paul's kitchen.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 15:59:22 GMT
Had a longer session today. The uGreen is still cutting the mustard. I was taken aback at just how good the system sounds; scale, soundstage, dynamics, detail, bass. I don't want for anything more and yet my Rendu is going to get a 'substantial upgrade' on Thursday.
How lucky am I?
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