QuickSilver Testing
PolkThug
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QuickSilver definitely changes the sound. Like all things audio related, whether you like it or not will depend on your gear and your personal tastes. I tried to be as objective as possible and perform tests that could be repeatable.
Here is the review:
http://www.angelfire.com/ultra2/polkthug/QuickSilver_review.pdf
Thanks to Brian Kyle for letting me test it.
Regards,
PolkThug
Here is the review:
http://www.angelfire.com/ultra2/polkthug/QuickSilver_review.pdf
Thanks to Brian Kyle for letting me test it.
Regards,
PolkThug
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Well done! Very intersting results in that my understangint of the goal of the quicksilver is to increase the quality of contact. I would think that this would lead to an increase in overall dB. This may be a situation where a product only offers a "different" sound and leaves it to the listener to decide what to do with it.
Do you have some testing on cables?There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
Originally posted by jdhdiggs
Well done! Very intersting results in that my understangint of the goal of the quicksilver is to increase the quality of contact. I would think that this would lead to an increase in overall dB. This may be a situation where a product only offers a "different" sound and leaves it to the listener to decide what to do with it.
Do you have some testing on cables?
thanks! I hope to do some serious cable testing soon.
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That would be sweet but establishing the accurate baseline would be rough. Could you feed the output directly into the comp to generate a baseline? This way you could take the amp and speakers out of the loop for a little more accuracy. (I know, I know, it eliminates the fun)There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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Originally posted by jdhdiggs
That would be sweet but establishing the accurate baseline would be rough. Could you feed the output directly into the comp to generate a baseline? This way you could take the amp and speakers out of the loop for a little more accuracy. (I know, I know, it eliminates the fun)
If I was testing three different cables, I would make the average of those three different cables the baseline to compare to. ie "Cable X was 2db hire than the average in the 2k to 5k range." -
I wouldn't do a pure average. Try using excels R-squared approach so you can balance in the outliers a bit better.There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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I ran the same test with four differently constructed interconnects. There's basically no difference.
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Nice, have you tried some of the ones that put the funny little box in the line (Transperent/MIT)?
Looking at your results, a least r^2 regression would be a waste of time.
Are these using the interconnects strait into the comp or are they ran through your whole system and picked up from the mic?
If it is the latter, you may run into som fiestyness in that people might say your rig isn't "reference" enough to show the difference.
All in all, exactly as I expected though I would love to see the results on the cables that put components in the path.There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
Just wondering, could this be because everything warmed up? "5-6. 24 hours pass and during 9 hours of that, music was playing continuously. Now, there is definitely a major change in output (light blue line). Basically the SPL peaks are 1-3 db's lower than before. Purple line is before treatment." Also, you could keep track of the line voltage if you do this again.
madmaxVinyl, the final frontier...
Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want...
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Originally posted by madmax
Just wondering, could this be because everything warmed up?
Nope, that's what I thought at first though. To quote myself:
"7. Take a "cold" measurement 48 hours after initial application."
There were some small changes between the hot and cold measurement. Measurement 7 had basically no warm up time, and my equipment had been off for many hours before the test. -
Originally posted by jdhdiggs
Are these using the interconnects strait into the comp or are they ran through your whole system and picked up from the mic?
Its "real world" results being picked up by the mic. The ONLY thing treated is the interconnect between the Denon and the Onkyo.
Regards,
PT
