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| It's Simple Ian, your calculations are of course correct, and I would note for the record that Belden 1311A is AWG 12 (12 gauge) wire.However as I'm sure you'll agree two of the expressions that were used in the calculations were not written correctly: 4Ω: 4 ... | |
| Curious How These Nordost Speaker Cables Do What They Do No, that’s not correct, Steve. First, keep in mind that a voltage must always be defined relative to some point, i.e., it exists between two points. It is not meaningful to simply think that "the neutral rail is always at zero volts." In the case ... | |
| Curious How These Nordost Speaker Cables Do What They Do Steve (Williewonka), your response to ieales about Ohm’s Law was correct, but he is correct in saying that equal currents exist in the positive and negative conductors connecting an amp and a speaker. (Although later in this post I’ll mention an e... | |
| Balanced cables Atmasphere 2-28-2018 Its probably not the amp that is causing you to hear the cables so much as the preamp. But there is a recent period of ARC amps that had me scratching my head. I’m not sure which models they are. They were out when Kalvin Dahl... | |
| What is your listening chair? I’ve been happy using Wassily Chairs my wife and I purchased back in the 1970s. In addition to being a beautiful and classic design (see this Wikipedia writeup), they result in my ears being at an optimal height for my particular speakers (Daedalu... | |
| Need some Amp help - a little new to properly powering speakers Although I almost always agree with my esteemed Audiogon friends and colleagues Atmasphere and Charles, and although I am definitely a fan of tube amplification, I would be hesitant to pair a tube amp with these speakers, at least without an in-ho... | |
| Balanced cables Audiozen 2-27-2018... just about all high end mono amps have both RCA and XLR inputs as well as dual mono stereo designs in a single chassis. So if a balanced dual mono/stereo preamplifier has both XLR and RCA outputs, and both outputs from XLR or... | |
| It's Simple Jim (Jea48) and Shadorne, thank you kindly!And thanks very much to Ian as well. Your lengthy second post makes many excellent points IMO, some of which indeed point out variables whose potential influence on cable and component comparisons is comm... | |
| It's Simple Roberjerman, you may not have noticed that Kijanki referred to the inductive reactance of a certain cable as being 1 ohm at 20 kHz, not to its inductance being 1 ohm. As you may realize, inductive reactance is the impedance presented by an inducta... | |
| What is the best thing to buy/or do to clean connections on IC's and SC " ?? I use DeoxIT Gold, in its bottled version, on anything I install in my system, and perhaps every year or two otherwise. I wipe off the excess with Q-Tips. Seems to be an adequate approach as far as I can tell.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Balanced cables Fsonicsmith, thanks. I essentially agree with everything in your post above. There are always myriad tradeoffs in a design, and the net result of those tradeoffs often will not conform to commonly stated paradigms.For example a major reason, and p... | |
| Balanced cables Fsonicsmith, as a point of information ARC line stages and preamps do not meet the criteria Atmasphere cited in his post that I referenced that would minimize or eliminate sensitivity to differences between balanced cables. Certainly, at least, w... | |
| Balanced cables In many and I suspect the majority of cases, yes. In some cases no. It depends on the designs of the components that are being connected. For the design characteristics of the interconnected components that are necessary to minimize and quite poss... | |
| How to choose an attenuator You are correct that 24 db of attenuation would be way too much, and would not allow you to utilize a good deal of the amp’s power capability, even with both of the volume controls that are in the signal path set at max. You are also correct that ... | |
| Takes one to know one Eric (bdp24), thanks for providing the characteristically comprehensive and interesting background. It's of particular interest to me because I knew John Simon's parents and sister quite well during the 1970s, and also met John a number of times.... |