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| recabling my Stax sr-009 to pure copper cable By the way, silver is MORE conductive than gold. What gold has going for it as a conductor is that it doesn’t easily oxidize. +1. Both silver AND copper are more conductive than gold, and by a considerable margin. See the resistivity and conductiv... | |
| Isolating Digital Noise, need help. Hi Lowrider,I’ve just read through this thread. First, let me summarize some of the key points I’ve perceived:1)The problem does not occur in any of the following cases:(a)The CDP’s stock power cord is used instead of the Audience power cord.(b)Th... | |
| Best Way to Spend ~ $2000 for System Improvement Xrayz and Ghosthouse, thanks. But know that I didn’t take either of your comments as disrespectful in any way. Best regards,-- Al | |
| Best Way to Spend ~ $2000 for System Improvement I did a bit of Googling and found this thread in which the 50 ohm spec was discussed. See post no. 30, by "Lexx." Sounds like the impedance is correct, but the person who wrote the spec won't ever be a candidate for the Nobel Prize. :-)Regards,... | |
| Best Way to Spend ~ $2000 for System Improvement Almarg, I meant to respond before- I do use coaxial to connect with both my pc and cd transport. My octave v1 has no usb input. In your opinion, even if the impedance matching is not a problem, would a better usb/spdif converter go a long way ... | |
| Is a stereo amp, when bridged to mono, by definition differential? Hi Howard,Engineers as well as non-engineers can easily conflate some of these terms incorrectly, at least in their wording if not in their understanding. In particular, the terms "differential" and "push-pull" are often used in an excessively loo... | |
| Is a stereo amp, when bridged to mono, by definition differential? Howard (Hodu), when I wrote my previous posts I had overlooked the reference in your original post to push-pull. As I indicated, my responses pertained to the relations or lack thereof between bridged, differential, and balanced amps. Thanks to Cl... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? I agree with Raymonda and several others who have suggested that a turntable should not be chosen based on its alleged suitability for a specific genre. Regardless of the kind of music it would be used to listen to, it should be chosen to be as un... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Regarding quantum tunneling, as I pointed out earlier in the thread there is such a phenomenon (see this Wikipedia writeup). However, my understanding is that it has nothing to do with treating a material "with 2,000,000 volts of electricity in a... | |
| Is a stereo amp, when bridged to mono, by definition differential? A further elaboration to the last paragraph of my previous post. When I said: If the amp provides balanced inputs, and if in bridged mode one of the two signals in the balanced pair of input signals that is being used is routed to the circuit... | |
| Is a stereo amp, when bridged to mono, by definition differential? Hi Howard,That’s a very thoughtful question. And I guess the answer can be summed up as "sort of." :-)First, as you realize balanced amps, bridged amps, and differential amps all have differential outputs. But the term "differential amp" is perhap... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Geoff, thank you for providing the thorough recap. However, as I see it those are not explanations, they are assertions. Or perhaps hypotheses would be a better term. To rise to the level of being explanations there has to be some basis (either... | |
| Best Way to Spend ~ $2000 for System Improvement Good comments by the others. But a note of caution about the suitability of CJ line stage preamps for use in your system. Many of them have unusually high gain (e.g. 25 db), and your McCormack power amp also has higher than average gain (30 db). C... | |
| PrimaLuna ProLogue Integrated - Help Needed Same amp, considering same speakers. How do you connect the resistor between the 8 ohm and common terminals? Are you saying on the back where the speaker terminals are, run an Audio Gold 12 watt? And in one sense it said between the 4 ohm and then... | |
| Best Way to Spend ~ $2000 for System Improvement ... the interconnects to the amp are only 1/2 meter. Good! ... the USB/ SPDIF converter is a Musical Fidelity V link. I see that both versions of the V-Link for which information is available at the MF site (the V-LinkII and the V-Link192) have sp... |