keithhr1

I am really kind of surprised after my heartfelt confession of a secretive, just patented technology, 20 years in the works that is only now coming to fruition , and the possible ramifications for every audiophile using cable to hook up their components that nothing would be mentioned of this as well. I know audiophiles are prone to embellishing comments, I thought my explanation of a wire that does virtually nothing in the signal path and an open offer to have some people from this community to verify it as best they can, comparing really good headphones heads up to a speaker system. I would suspect that nobody here has ever heard a cable that they could say does nothing in the signal path and I don't personally know of anyone, every offering this type of direct a/b comparison because they can't pull it off. What I described was no joke and not one person commented on it. Maybe I have come to the wrong place to share what I know about audio playback. Nobody that has ever come over for a listen has ever been prepared for what they actually heard. When hearing something for the first time, many more questions are created than answers, initially at least. So much for my attempt to share what might be the future.

I've got a fairly new mac mini with 4gb ram w/7200rpm hd with 350gb, and an older v2 stack for time machine question is I want to add a squeeze box and should I add a separate new mac mini for music server only or should I add a new hard drive to existing mac mini. Right now i'm using the firewire 800 to connect to my v2 stack for time machine. question is which would be better for music? I could get a 640gb or 500gb mac mini holding 1000 or 750 cd's which I would get ripped to either. I'm thinking the more straight forward choice would be the new mac mini using my existing linksys network. I've been going back and forth with wild thoughts of Olive music 4hd players etc plus getting a new dac possibly. If I got a new mac mini I could go direct to something like a Berkeley dac. to replace my existing Benchmark , too many decisions. back to topic in hand, better to buy a new mac mini to put on the network and store the music to a new pristine hard drive or get a back up? I would rather spend more money for an eloquent solution any help would be appreciated.

I spent 20 years investigating why speaker systems didn't approach the sound quality of, for example stax headphone directly from a digital source. The sound was amazingly detailed that could never be matched by a speaker system. The old rationale of room interaction etc was always brought up and of course no high end audio dealer will ever let you do this comparison in the showroom. In effect, the notes should all be the same duration in length, sonic signature should be identical etc. Every facet of the comparison should be almost exactly identical. Cut to the point, after all this time I have succeeded in designing a cable which I have patented and is being shown at ces this year in a coming out party so to speak> I am not at liberty to announce anything yet, i'm sure forum rules prohibit that. But I can say this. I have a benchmark dac and I have all my cables sending the signal out from the rca outs on the dac to a B&K avr and through a dual mono passive volume control to a custom amp and then through speaker cables to a custom speaker system. The signal is sent though two components and two sets of cabling of my design, and what comes out of the speaker system is better than what comes out of the headphone jack of the benchmark dac. The headphones are Sennheiser HD650 headphones and the only difference or variable in the test is the wire that is used in the 11 foot run of wire in the from the dac to the headphones. The test can include simultaneous listening to the same portion of the same cut with instantaneous headphones on, then speaker system on. Everyone that has done this test agrees that the speaker system is faster and more detailed, spacious with each note sounding more precise. At some point I will be able to identify this cable, as of now I am simply the manufacturer and not the distributor. The people distributing this cable have very high end equipment that starts from each source being wired internally with this wire though every component directly through the speakers to the drivers. So it is interconnect, speaker cable, and internal hook up wire, it's a dream come true for me. Here is the quandry, I have new custom speakers with arrays of 4 bandor 50mm drivers per side with a bandor 150mm wooofer side mounted on the bottom .The top of the speaker is sealed without a crossover, box volume creates output frequencies. Bottom woofer has a single coil. So what I am able to hear from the benchmark dac is amazing, better than anyone i'm convinced has ever heard. That is my opinion. But I want to try and upgrade my digital source, namely the dac, there must be something better and I'm not sure how to find it. The usual listening tests are all tainted to some degree because I have been able to prove that there is more distortion in the cables than anyone has previously thought possible. My listening tests have never been subjective but only recorded detail has ever been used as a viable test. Recorded detail doesn't lie, if there is more of it, I knew I was always on the right track. In the end, detail was everything , it was the layering of sound stage, pinpoint precise position of instruments, large spacing between instruments with blackness in between. The sound of musicians clothing moving as they played, the sound of each instrument decaying in the natural space around it. All of this with a a bencmark dac, a B&k avr to begin with, before that other equipment. I believe that unbeknownst to every reviewer were colorations and distortions beyond their worst fears, making it impossible for them to accurately hear the components they were reviewing, and in the end all audiophiles made choices to color and filter the sound so their brains could tell them that what they were hearing was ok, but in the end each audiophile would have to go from component to component , each time their brain was telling them something was wrong, not knowing that it was always,for the most part the cable. I believe that the curse of the audiophile will be ending soon, i'm sure of it. So, I'm asking how do I get a dac that is better than the benchmark, I've been considering all the favorites, in no particular order, From the dac out my cable is wired in the entire signal path , passive volume, cabling amp speaker cable, to the drivers. Berkeley Alpha Wavelength Crimson or cosecant Ayre QB-9 Naim Dac Weiss Dac2 Bryston Dac Benchmark HDR probably some that I've forgotten This is the first time I've ever done this rant , or confessional, outburst, or whatever you want to call it, but for some reason it seemed like the right time, maybe because the product will actually be available to other people soon, and I won't have to say, Yea my wire is great but you can't have any. The wire does virtually nothing in the signal path as far as anyone can tell, through several components , as long as they aren't distorting the signal it arrives just as it left, it has the exact same affect on alternating current, digital signals, video signals, and analogue signals, kind of like a magic wire that acts like a magic filter controlling the nature of the sine wave, or so it seems to me. If anyone has done some serious comparisons with the benchmark dac , I would like to hear about what you heard to help me decide what to buy to go with my new amp and speakers. The amp buy the way is an amp that originated with Michael Yee audio,known for his preamps but I find to be brilliant with his minimalist signal path approach. I have a class A solid state amp of his design. If there are mistakes in spelling or grammar please forgive, it's late I'm tired and I'm using the wrong glasses to type this.

there is more distortion in cables than in any other part of the signal path. I have spent the past 20 years proving just that, have patented a cable technology which I can't divulge at this point in time , but it is being shown at 2010 ces as I write this, but I am going to make a new post regarding benchmark dacs because I have a question that I'm hoping someone can help