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| High end speakers without bi-wiring? John, envision a simple two-way biwired speaker, the speaker having a capacitor in series with the tweeter and an inductor in series with the woofer. An essentially identical full-range VOLTAGE waveform will propagate from the amplifier to both se... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapters Hi Bob,Once again you raise excellent questions.In the absence of a transformer, the cmrr of an active balanced input stage will generally be degraded significantly when driven by an unbalanced source. Good cmrr requires a close match between, amo... | |
| Two Turntables and Hum Problems - Help Please The gauge of the rca extension cables won't make any difference. What is important, in addition to shielding effectiveness (which is hard to predict) is (as I mentioned earlier) keeping cable capacitance as low as possible, particularly if you wil... | |
| High end speakers without bi-wiring? 08-23-11: JohnkYou have the same signal on both runs of biwire. The treble and bass do not just travel on the cable run you pick for them unless actively filtered.In a bi-wire arrangement the current and the power corresponding to the high frequen... | |
| Hrrmmm..What a difference..Now must move speakers By changing from rca to xlr, you have changed the configuration of the dac's output circuit that is being used, the configuration of the preamp's input circuit that is being used, gains and signal amplitudes (and therefore presumably volume contro... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapters 08-22-11: Bob_reynoldsMitch2,Just curious... Why did you select an input transformer when your amps have balanced inputs instead of an output transformer, like Model DM2-2RX?Wouldn't it be theoretically better to have shorter RCA cables at the pre... | |
| High end speakers without bi-wiring? My Daedalus Ulysses speakers, and I assume other Daedalus Audio models, have only one pair of terminals.Also, these comments from Coincident Technologies' Israel Blume may be of interest. I take no position on those comments myself, but they certa... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? I first want to second the comments by Dave (Corazon) about the quality and value of many of the posts in this thread. While it is of course not expectable that a clear consensus will be reached, or that many minds will be changed by the debate, i... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? Hi Zaikesman,LetÂ’s take some specific examples, relevant to power cords:1)Power cords will differ somewhat in terms of resistance. That will result in differences in the ac voltages that appear at the power connectors of the components to which th... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? Wonderful comment and insight, Bryon. I could not be in more complete agreement.Another example that provides a good illustration of what you are referring to would be digital cables. Certainly different digital cables can produce different sonic ... | |
| Speakers more fussy about cables than amp? Stan, initially I interpreted the question in the same way as you did, as asking whether the speaker or the amp is more sensitive to cable differences. On further reflection, though, I think he is asking about whether the speaker may be more sensi... | |
| Two Turntables and Hum Problems - Help Please In addition to the good comments above, another reason that a 30 foot run from turntable to phono stage is unreasonable is cable capacitance. With a moving magnet or other high output cartridge, sonics will be significantly degraded unless you use... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? Hi Mr. T,Let me make clear that my comments pertained strictly to power cords, not to interconnect cables, speaker cables, or phono cables. In those cases, IMO, it is certainly conceivable, and even expectable, that consistent results (differing i... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? 08-15-11: LissnrThere are 2 widely disparate "camps" about whether power cords can make a noticeable change in the sound of your system (assuming adequate gauges/capacity for the accompanying component) ....I would submit that there is a third cam... | |
| Leave the turntable running? 08-15-11: StanwalThis sounds totally unnecessary to me and this is the first time I have ever heard of the idea.Same here, on both counts. And it seems to me that during the process of lifting the record there could be an instant of time when part... |