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| Long Cables w/Short Speaker Cable or Vice Versa? RCA single-ended types are prone to noise pick-up whether from electromagnetic interference or from radio frequency interference and will have high frequency degradation once over 6 feet in length.The reference to high frequency degradation for le... | |
| Novice seeks help with hooking up components... Not sure that I understand the question. When the BAT is connected between the CD player and the Shindo, you would have to turn up the volume controls on BOTH the BAT and the Shindo to hear anything. Is that what you are saying happens? You would ... | |
| Long Cables w/Short Speaker Cable or Vice Versa? A fundamental reason for the divergence of opinion on this question is that the answer depends on the characteristics of the equipment that is being connected. See this thread, in which there is discussion of some of the equipment characteristics ... | |
| How does music "move" down a wire? I read that a signal takes the easiest path.Hi Ken,That's actually a bit of an oversimplification. In the case of dc, if two parallel paths are present the current will divide up between the two paths in inverse proportion to the resistance of eac... | |
| How does music "move" down a wire? I have fretted about this in certain applications in the past and it has cost me in wasted lengths of speaker wire. I haven't ever noticed a difference in sound with differential lengths of wire, but since I was fretting about everything else, I t... | |
| How does music "move" down a wire? Excellent answers by Elizabeth!How different would wire lengths have to be for the acute listener to notice a difference in the arrival time in a pair of a stereo signals at the speakers?Several miles or more, by which point timing differences wou... | |
| Coincident Dragon Amplifier Looks like Marco is correct about RMAF 2007. Scroll down about 1/3 of the way on this page. Finsup, no self-rebuke is called for. I interpreted your comment in a positive manner, as you intended.Thanks to all once again.-- Al | |
| Coincident Dragon Amplifier Finsup, thanks very much for your comments. Regarding what I am not getting from my current amplifier, nothing in particular that I can identify at this time. I've been pretty happy with it, since retubing it with "Winged C" EL34's and Genalex rei... | |
| i need 20 meter speaker wire, decent quality If the long speaker cable alternative is chosen, IMO there is a question which has not yet been raised that is essential to selection of an appropriate cable. And that is the impedance characteristics of your speakers at high frequencies.I did a q... | |
| Coincident Dragon Amplifier Thanks very much to all for the good comments and suggestions, and the nice words. Further comments and suggestions will continue to be appreciated, as I will not be finalizing my decision for a couple of months or so.01-15-11: Jax2Hey Al - Did yo... | |
| Compensating for different speaker cable lengths Assuming that you want the cables to behave in a neutral manner, regardless of the issue of the length disparity the 16 foot cable should be chosen to have negligibly small resistance relative to the impedance of the speaker at all frequencies, an... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 01-13-11: GeorgelofiTo give some measured examples of interconnects1: With IC's at 100pf per foot a 1mt = approx 300pfthis with the Lightpeed at it's highest output impedance has a HF rollof of -3db at 76khz2: Same with 200pf per foot 1mt = approx... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, you and Ralph are talking about two different things. You are referring to the Fletcher-Munson effect. Ralph is referring to the increase in output impedance of a passive preamp that occurs as the volume control POSITION is reduced from ma... | |
| Speaker Cable Requirements 1 Ohm Load Assuming you want the cable to be as neutral as possible, the basic ideas are that:1)You want to limit the resistance of the cables carrying low frequencies to a small fraction of the impedance of the speaker at low frequencies.2)For the cables ca... | |
| SHM SACD's need to be burned in I played it on repeat on my cdp for two days straight. What evidence is there that the changes were the result of effects on the disk, as opposed to effects on the player? The facts that you leave the player turned on all the time (presumably with... |