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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Well said, Mapman, Frank, & George.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Nyame 1-23-2017 It is very difficult to respond rationally to to this type of convoluted nonsense. The only way to determine whether a fuse make a difference is to listen to it. No "measured data" can make this determination. This is why final eva... | |
| interconnects vs speaker cables vs power cords - which make the biggest difference? Factors that tend to increase the criticality of speaker cables:-- Low speaker impedance.-- Long cable length.Factors that tend to increase the criticality of line-level analog interconnect cables:-- High output impedance of the component driving ... | |
| 12 ft pair of thick speakers cables?? Can they be cut downt to a 6 ft pair?? Moebuster 1-22-2017I read on Mapleshade Audio list of audio tweaks that speaker cables should be 10 feet or longer. The 10 foot plus cable supposedly sounds way better than cable less than 10 feet. You can go to the Mapleshade audio website for mo... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Al, yes I’ve heard the arguments against silver. To be sure it's clear, my previous post was not making or implying an argument against silver. It was simply saying that the fact that silver has a slightly higher conductivity/lower resistivity... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? 213runnin 1-23-1017... did you know that silver conducts electricity significantly better than copper? Superior conductivity is only one of its benefits. Why don’t you google this, you’d be surprised at the other main benefit. The fact that si... | |
| Connecting Speaker Cables to Dynaco ST-70 I wouldn't allow that to happen, George. You would be putting a zero ohm load across a significant fraction of the output transformer's secondary (output side) winding. I would certainly expect that to affect sonics, and I wouldn't be surprised ... | |
| Power supply hum transmitted to loudspeakers Audiobrian 1-20-12017Al, I do have a question for you. I have both a VAC 300.1a and a Ren Sig 2A Preamplifier. I have noticed no pertinent electrical buzz from either but both do have power transformer hum, not particularly disturbing, but noticea... | |
| Power supply hum transmitted to loudspeakers Thanks very much, Ralph.Other than the Sophia Electric 6SN7’s discussed in the thread that I linked to, which caused significant hum in my VAC 70/70 and in another member’s 30/30, the only small signal tubes I’ve used in the amp have been 1950’s/1... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Jetter 1-20-2017 Knowledge Expert definition - For my way of looking at things they are Al and Ralph - Although I probably should not inject my interpretation of their discussions, which is what I have done. So Al and Ralph, sorry if I have mi... | |
| Power supply hum transmitted to loudspeakers Thanks for your nice comments, Hal. It's possible that the slight hum is related to the fact that my VAC Renaissance 70/70 MkIII amp is, I believe, a bit more than 15 years old. Although VAC worked it over about three years ago, and replaced som... | |
| Power supply hum transmitted to loudspeakers Normie, FWIW my speakers are rated at 98 db/1 watt/1 meter. The gain of my amp isn't specified, nor is its sensitivity (gain can usually be calculated to a good approximation from the combination of sensitivity and maximum power capability specs)... | |
| Hum hum hum If you search at eBay for "RCA shorting plugs" you'll find many examples, although I'm not aware of any that are readily available for XLR inputs. The point to assessing the hum with shorted inputs (i.e., with a connection between the center pin ... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters It seems evident to me that Clearthink's excellent command of the English language indicates that he is not Bo. However, regarding Clearthink's statement that: He is being generous by contributing here to share his knowledge about Tru-Fi and th... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Discussion of the use of circuit breakers in audio components can be found in the following threads. The bottom line would seem to be that it may be suitable and beneficial to use some breakers in some applications but not in others, with breakin... |