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[quote user="N-set"] While I agree that they are typical "full of nothing" boxes and in no way I'd like to defend anything connected to them, butI doubt that the SUT-to-grid distance is such a critical layout parameter: 1) this wiring is within the b...
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Strange but I have found that my reception is significantly better if I don't use any connector between my antenna cable(radio shack RG whatever going up to rooftoop antenna) and my tuner but instead just strip off a bit of wire at the end of the cab...
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It looks like Purist introduced a new line of cables: Proteus Provectus. Dave Clark from “Positive Feedback” made a write up about those new cables. Hmmm… I do not like what I have read, particularly reading some things between the lines:
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Hi Romy and Company:
My CD player has seen better days so I did some research and though you might be interested in my experience with the "Music server" concept. Punchline: fun, sounds great and is very convenient!
You can create your own aud...
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[quote user="George"] Recently I had a brainstorm (very small) and bounced it off Guy (who is a terrific person to talk to) and he thought it would be worth trying. Since I was driving such a relatively long length of RCA cable (thus subject to noise...
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The most interesting in who of it is the question: what relation
cable impedance has to do with actual sound? It is easy to take number of cable
and to measure how close they are to 75R. It is very easy if the cable that
closest to 75R sound the b...
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Most will recognize the Roman gladiator's salute. Caveat...Based on what I've seen at AA, this is as likely a place as any (and more likely than most) to go down in flames.My own motive for starting this up is recent experiments with super-pure...
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I think this topic is very very interesting to me and it is a opportunity those 90% audiophiles (like josh) think more about their objectives .I have pointed it many times in my weblog that romy recommendations (both methods and components) can not h...
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In the past you've referred to current loading in the context of cable length. I recently experienced this when I experimented with moving my amps. I needed to increase the IC length from 1 meter to 3 meters. The only IC I had at that length was an o...
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I was reading Paul’s comment about elasticity and the Bad’s comment about the electrical field attached to a cable and suddenly a very absurd notion popped to my head. Do not take it literally – this is just a brain-storm-like vision.
So,...
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Hi Paul,The net gauge for one cable of the 140 strands of #40 stuff is #15 AWG, as far as circular mils of area vs current induced heating goes. The surface area is some 13 times that of a solid #15 gauge copper wire. A minimum of 10 times the surfac...
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I have a mystery – my Second stereo arm stopped to sound right. My Second stereo arm is Micro MAX 282. I have been using it for years and I know it very well. It is not the “phenomenal arm”, it loose to my best arm and I know how, but it is an OK arm...
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user="anthony"]I've just done some calculations for power loss versus
cable gauge and I think that with that length of cable that I would be best off
with as low a resistance as possible. It seems to be an absolutely
overriding factor. I...
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...to obsess about speaker wire. Thinking about this a little more I realise that my preference for foil cables has always been in relation to speakers with passive crossovers. DSET is much more simple, the amplifier is driving the transducer direc...
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The fact that cost in audio does not mean sound quality knows everyone and everyone, particularly whose sell expensive audio, love to pitch it. However, we all understand the cost/sound misbalance but we very seldom take it personally.
At my...
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I found that cable cookers do not work on Dominus. You have no idea why. Nothing got “ruined” but Dominus juts do not react to cable cookers. It sounds ridicules but it is what it is. Dominus should be burned in ONLY being plunge between the actual c...
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After the Dominus fluid refilling the cables sound bright as it was brand new but this brightness burns away much faster than when a cable was new, approximately twice faster. Over the years I was asking Jim to introduce replenishment kits, some kind...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This is very complex and superbly important concept and with this I have pissed a lot of people in audio. So, while you participate in evaluation of an audio element DO NOT recognized the sonic benefits of this element in i...
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Yes, the last cap of power supply much be on the side of load as it shell have a short path to ground. Without it you will have “less bass”, more crosstalk in case it is a stereo amp with single PS and a few other negative things.
With cables is mor...
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[quote user="Paul S"]This $5 discontinued Belkin blue cable may be as good a piece of gear as I own, I kid you not. Among other things it does a great job of limiting noise without screwing everything else up. [/quote] Exactly, it acts in a way as a ...
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Yeah, the power cord was nothing special. The Shunyata cord PLUS the Hyrdra conditioner represent the single best upgrades to my system aside from John's mods. I was skeptical about power cords and conditioners, but I'm a bit of a fanatic a...
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I had tried this before, a few years back, using parallel runs for interconnect and speaker cable of uninsulated and insulated wire of different metals. The end result was that the tonal result was very similar and basically the tone seemed to ...
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Dear Romy, You got me wrong I perfectly know that value of many things are not the sum of materials which they are made of, otherwise you could buy Mona Lisa for couple of bucks. The point I tried to say is usually cable manufacturers-and others in a...
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Floyd,
Regardless your preamp uses output coupling cap you would still need a positive supply. Positive supply compensates the negative DC voltage at the amp’s input. Theoretically if you do not connect or disconnect the cable between your preamp an...
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Amir:I have not thought much about S/PDIF cable for a while, and I have not thought "seriously" about other digital cable formats at all, since I have no interest in a "digital server", except - maybe - something portable (and cheap). If Acoustic ...
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Amir, it is funny to hear that you like $4,600 Purist but would prefer $10 Belkin SPDIF. The Synapse is basically an effective low pass filter, albeit this seems to help many systems. Like I said up the thread, I have not concerned myself with SPDIF...
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I think I can afford one of those cables to learn some things. Moreover it would allow me to tell Romy if my AES/EBU cable could be any good for him. Have checked the auction and they still have some more available, but I've noticed that the referenc...
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Yes I do use them for both my Bidat and battery power Idat/M both reworked by John (BTW Idat/M has some performing benefits over the Bidat in my experience). The Synapse cable does have the special qualities mentioned in this thread.I had considered ...
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I have absolutely no assumption how those cables sound but the write up about them is absolutely idiotic.
http://www.bluebirdmusic.com/Van%20den%20Hul%203T%20Cables.htm
The phrases like “fewer than two .80mm solid core conductors”...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]I think I can afford one of those cables to learn some things. Moreover it would allow me to tell Romy if my AES/EBU cable could be any good for him. Have checked the auction and they still have some more available, but I've ...
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