Cable "burning": Real or VooDoo ???

While your at it, might as well listen to the rest of "HEJIRA" could be the lady's best album ever.

Whoever gave me double negative 2s for this one, really does need a life.

Detlof, where would this site be without you? Thank you for your, as usual, kindness.
Regarding JM, I admit "Blue" as well as "Ladies of the Canyon" and "For the Roses" were the great works of her early folk years, but the middle period that included "Court & Spark" ," Hissing of Summer Lawns"(WOW!!), and "Hejira", she seemed to reinvent herself so to speak. Talk about music that stood the test of time, this was it. "Hejira" though, is rather incredible IN MY OPINION>.........Sorry , I know this has nothing to do with cables....Frank

Kev, so how's Max doing after all the tests?

Steve, funny you should bring up Jim Bongeorno's GAS Ampzilla. The reason that amp developed such a cult following in 1976/77, was because of just that reason (not because of the apes in the ads). It was highly listenable and had some very judicious tradeoffs that juggled between transient detail and a rounded loose and whompy bottom. Sounds like that Damping factor of 1 to me. Trying very hard for the tube sound again. Terrible amp for running electrostats even though it did handle low impedance loads very well. Why was that the case? dont know.
One thing I can say though, is that the ingrediants for good amp sound have remained the same for years.
1) Little use of negative feedback
2) Stiff Power Supply that can supply the current required to make the amp a TRUE voltage source regardless of load. The importance of the Supply can't be stressed enough. Its a fact that no amp can is gonna be better than the stuff travelling down the supply rails. I am not an EE, just what I have observed over time that has proved consistently true.......Frank

Steve, mostly all of the mid to late 70s high power SS superamps used tons of negative feedback. Whatever benefits derived from excessive amounts of it,were all negated by the God awful sonic results. The spec sheets were always the same; i.e. incredibly low static distortion figures at very high power...damping factors up in the hundreds!!! and low slew rates (remember when slew rates were the most important specs?). The tank amplifier that Sean was referring to, was, for sure, the Mark Levinson ML-2. There was simply no better made SS amp in that era.