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| Biwire with different cables? I think that the fact that you will be biwiring will make much more of a difference in improving bass tightness than the type of wire you choose to do it with (assuming, of course, that the gauge is adequate).In bi-wired configuration, back-emf fr... | |
| Refoaming vintage OHM speakers Yes, Bill LeGall is the master at this. His prices are very reasonable, and talking with him is both a delight and very informative. The url is:http://www.millersound.net(Note that it ends with .net, not .com).Don't have the volume on your compute... | |
| Dumb Question about cables Shielding is much less important for speaker cables than for interconnects, because the extremely low output impedance of the power amplifier, and the low impedance of the speakers, will tend to "short out" most or all emi/rfi which may be picked ... | |
| preferred interconnect for FM tuner Does your high capacitance suggestion hold for this?Yes. Higher capacitance would slightly roll off (attenuate) the upper treble, to a greater or lesser degree depending on the output impedance of the tuner and the length of the cable. That would ... | |
| Loss of Sound Quality when both systems are ON My guess would be that one of the two pairs of Cary amps inverts phase but the other does not. So when you run the two pairs of external amps, the two pairs of speakers are running out of phase relative to each other (i.e., the cones of one pair a... | |
| preferred interconnect for FM tuner If by "a bit noisy" you mean that there is significant background hiss, more so or less so depending on the signal strength you are receiving from the particular station, the right way to fix it is with a better antenna, not by changing interconne... | |
| Analog Tuner Existence..... FWIW, here is the latest on the situation in Great Britain, as reported in the latest issue (September, 2009) of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Spectrum:Britain Mulls Over Digital Radio Transition:The British communic... | |
| humming interconnects Set the multimeter to the R x 1 resistance scale, or whatever its lowest resistance scale is. Touch the two test leads from the multimeter to each other, and adjust the meter so that it reads zero ohms. Then touch one lead of the meter to the grou... | |
| RCA cable lenght Assuming the interconnect capacitance and preamp output impedance satisfy the constraints I described above, and the speaker cables are of adequate gauge to support the run length (the Transparent Cables site doesn't seem to specify the gauge of t... | |
| RCA cable lenght There is no hard and fast rule about maximum interconnect length, because it is highly dependent on both the output impedance of the preamp, and the capacitance of the interconnects. The lower the better in both cases. If you choose interconnects ... | |
| humming interconnects does open shield mean "no shield" -- so its picking up some interference from the sub or amp?No, assuming it is a conventionally designed unbalanced interconnect with rca plugs on each end. By open shield I mean that electrical continuity is not p... | |
| humming interconnects Once I swapped the cable the hum went away.I understand, but I was suggesting that there conceivably could be other contributing factors, which the Klyne's may bring out to a greater extent than the other interconnects, perhaps due to having highe... | |
| humming interconnects Not sure what you mean by having checked the ground. Is there a separate lead to connect turntable ground to preamp ground/chassis? If not, that figures to be a contributing factor, even if one was not present with the other interconnects either.A... | |
| Has anyone bi-amped with a Cary SLP-05? Hi Keith,I would expect that the short-circuit protective shutdown, which as I quoted from the manual kicks in when it senses a 1.6 ohm load, would result in no sound whatsoever (aside perhaps for a fraction of a second or whatever amount of time ... | |
| Bi-amp befuddlement Rodman makes excellent points, but on the question of horizontal vs. vertical biamping, there are arguments that can be made both ways. See the comments by the noted designer Steve McCormack, favoring vertical biamping, in this thread:http://forum... |