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RE: Your strong, and largely unfounded, dislike for fmak is well-documented.

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In Reply to: RE: Your strong, and largely unfounded, dislike for fmak is well-documented. posted by carcass93 on July 07, 2014 at 18:23:56

fmak says he obtained a positive result in his system. My problem is that fmak never tells us what his system is and it always seems to be changing. I'm sorry, but I am suspicious. When I have an unsatisfactory playback I keep changing my system. When I get a positive result I stop changing my system and start enjoying music. Now it may be that fmak's system sounds great. Indeed, it might take only a few minutes actually listening to it to ascertain whether this is so or not. However, this is not an opportunity I have. All I have is what he posts. I don't see technical claims and justification for them, such as what a nerd would post. I also don't see the type of detailed and careful subjective reviews that a non-technical reviewer such as Mercman writes.

I also don't see interesting references to good, albeit unconventional music such as you occasionally post. :-)

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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Your more objectionable points were dealt with by Bob; let me tackle something agreeable. - carcass93 09:05:39 07/08/14 (0)
Rummelsnuff - "Bratwurstzange"
Won't win any prizes for sophistication any time soon, but together with video - is pretty enjoyable.

Edits: 07/08/14
RE: Your strong, and largely unfounded, dislike for fmak is well-documented. - Bob_C 21:42:30 07/07/14 (6)
"fmak says he obtained a positive result in his system. My problem is that fmak never tells us what his system is and it always seems to be changing. I'm sorry, but I am suspicious."

In this case what his system is not really important IMO. He found that a shielded SATA cable was an improvement. I also use a shielded cable in my audio system. You own a system from a manufacture I believe. Is it an Asus? If so you probable have a good SATA cable. Some of the generic flat cables are not good for audio, this is been discussed on other forums. A cable is only a few dollars, if you want to use some copper tape another few. How can this be faulted?

regards
Bob
- good SATA cable but probably long - fmak 22:14:44 07/07/14 (4)
  which is not good either
  - RE: good SATA cable but probably long - Bob_C 22:21:58 07/07/14 (3)
    "which is not good either"
    
    I happen to use a 6in cable,but if read the thread on CA the ASUS 18in was also a good cable according to some posters. Someone also split and twisted it.
    - Split and Twist - fmak 22:46:52 07/07/14 (2)
      May not be a good thing as it disturbs geometry.
      
      What cable do you use and are you sold on Paul Pangs's?
      - RE: Split and Twist - Bob_C 23:21:37 07/07/14 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Split and Twist posted by fmak on July 07, 2014 at 22:46:52
        
        I use an Ok gear nothing exotic, but I think it meets the criteria. I have not tried Paul's cables yet. I do use his USB card and I am impressed. From what I hear with the cards, and the feedback on the web I would expect his cables to be good also. He puts allot of time and effort into what he does, pretty cutting edge. He even updates MB clocks.
        http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812123 (Open in New Window)
        
        RE: Split and Twist-I use - fmak 23:27:47 07/07/14 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Split and Twist posted by Bob_C on July 07, 2014 at 23:21:37
        
        a similar one to yours but the distance in the case I posted was too large.
- RE: Your strong, and largely unfounded, dislike for fmak is well-documented. - Tony Lauck 22:11:45 07/07/14 (0)
  I have two SATA cables in my system, one for each disk drive. One SATA cable came with the disk that was bundled in my system. The other SATA cable is used with a 4 TB internal hard drive that I added. As far as I can tell, both cables are the same. Most of the SATA cables in my collection came with various disk drive kits that I have acquired over the years. They all look alike.
  
  I also have an ESATA cable. This involves a regular SATA cable inside the box to a header to an external ESATA cable (which is shielded). This connects to a Blac-X device that has a slot into which one can drop an internal drive and use it externally. Normally this slot is unused ant the Blac-X device not powered up. I use this for off-site backups.
  
  During normal audio playback there is no activity on any of these SATA cables, as far as I am aware of. As such, they are definitely not in the audio signal path on my system. It was a deliberate decision on my part to play out of a RAM disk, and this was based in part on sound quality issues. It also provides a convenient way for me to store my library in FLAC and yet play WAV files.
  
  Tony Lauck
  
  "Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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