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| When does speaker distortion become audible? When does speaker distortion become audible? My answer is simple. It's always audible. Since it seems safe to assume that no speaker is audibly perfect, all speakers can be presumed to distort the signal that is provided to them to an audible degr... | |
| Magico Q5 and Pass Labs XA200.5 Synergy I can't comment on the sonics or synergy of the components and speakers that have been mentioned, but I would make the following points:1)The GAT preamp has a specified gain of 25 db, which is most likely way too much for use in this and the major... | |
| The future of preamps I took a look at the statements in the manual for the Krell 700cx that pertain to DC. As someone having no dog in this fight, I would offer the following comments:1)The relevant section on page 14 (pdf page 18) begins with the statement that:The h... | |
| Bi-wire speaker cables be used as single set Hi Jim,No problem at all using both connectors on a single speaker binding post, as long as it can be done in a physically secure manner, and as long as you make sure that + and - don't come in contact with each other. Sonically it might even prod... | |
| Has anybody tried using single solid core cables? I see a difference between a conductor made up of several bare wires that are in direct contact with one another covered by a single insulation covering to that of several insulated solid core wires grouped together under a common jacket.Hi Jim,I ... | |
| Best cheap speaker cables............again Would it be physically possible to connect both the low and high frequency wires of your existing cables to the single pair of binding posts on the Vienna speakers? If so, IMO that would certainly be worth trying, and could very conceivably provid... | |
| Has anybody tried using single solid core cables? Thanks, Kijanki. Good analogy.A slight correction to my previous post. When I said: Now a case could be made that damping factors above a few tens of ohms are overkill with most speakers ....Damping factors are of course not measured in ohms. They... | |
| Has anybody tried using single solid core cables? Re the Indigo cable and the solid/stranded question, while a case could be made for referring to it as solid core, IMO (based on what I perceive to be the most common usages of the terms) cables employing any form of Litz construction (i.e., a sin... | |
| Has anybody tried using single solid core cables? 12-30-13: Charles1dadI try to avoid all encompassing statements or proclamations as there are always exceptions.+1. Well said, Charles. To me the main usefulness of an unequivocal all-encompassing statement such as the one quoted by the OP, that n... | |
| Proofreader wanted Perhaps the proofreader was a spellcheck program. "Immanent" is actually a word, as are "imminent" and "eminent" of course. See eminent/imminent/immanent.Sadly, both errors pale in comparison to the erosion of literacy that is commonly seen these ... | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Hi Bruce,Those are all reasonable numbers, and unlikely to account for any sonic differences that may exist among those cables, or between any of them and the majority of other cables. The most notable spec difference between the three cables is t... | |
| The future of preamps Audiolab, I'll try this one more time, and then I'll cease and desist. The 32 volt spec is NOT A PROBLEM FOR YOUR AMP OR FOR ANY OTHER AMP IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.Everything else being equal, the higher that number is the better. That number has NOT... | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... A correction to your post, Willie, if I may. The specs for Kimber 12TC, and as I recall for many of their other cables, are for a length of 2.5 meters. See this page. ("DUT" presumably stands for "Device Under Test"). So the 1400 pf number represe... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? 12-26-13: BifwynneAl, can I assume, therefore, if one leaves their amp on unattended for even a short period of time, they could learn upon resuming their listening session that not only does their amp not work, they may be minus one or two speake... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? FWIW, a few years ago I installed a brand new quartet of Chinese-made 6SN7 small signal tubes in my VAC amp, that had been provided and tested by a good supplier. After listening to beautifully reproduced music for about 2 hours, all of a sudden t... |