audioengr
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| Digital cables: 75 or 110 ohms? The SP/DIF spec is 75 ohms, single-ended signalling. The AES/EBU spec is 100ohms balanced or differential signalling. | |
| Which cables go with what????? Nrchy - your respect index just went up a notch. ;>) | |
| Which cables go with what????? Sonic_genius wrote:"AudioEngr: If you have the education and experience that you claim then you would be a fool to be in the high-end audio cable business."Not really. I've already had a 26-year illustrious career in the computer industry and I to... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Unsound wrote:"System synergy is dung? What about impedance matching between pre and power amp, between power amps and speakers, between speakers and rooms, etc.."I agree with you 100%. Synergy between amps and speakers is critical. Sometimes betw... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Flex wrote:"Audioengr's original argument is that IF you match components well enough, including with tubed systems, that it is at least possible to get the cable influence out of the equation. Obviously cables need to be as well designed as possi... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Corona wrote:"Maybe this will help; it took us three years to build a ported dynamic speaker with no x-over."My hats off to you. I had though about doing this myself, but I don't have a lot of speaker design experience. But I thought it would cert... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Sean wrote:"do you think that your gear / system is representative of the majority of components / systems in use today ?"Probably not, but the interfaces are similar. The difference is that everything I have is heavily modded. You can get the sam... | |
| Which cables go with what????? "Based on their posts here; maybe they don't have enough customers to keep them busy."I actually wish it were true. This has been my busiest summer yet. I don't even get to go flyfishing much - and the lake is only a half mile away. | |
| Which cables go with what????? "Audioengr starts the thread knowing full well it will serve as a promotional vehicle for his product."Bullshit - It just irks me how many audiophiles believe this nonsense. I read hundreds of posts like:"what speaker cables will sound good with m... | |
| Which cables go with what????? lemme@lone wrote:"if a 15 foot run of cable can be readily had from Empirical, why does everyone else have so much trouble making a standard 3 footer that should have 5 times less 'signature'"The answer is simple. Most manufacturers of cable do no... | |
| What is better? longer interconnects or spkr cable I've studied this problem analytically. The results show that with TYPICAL amps and preamps (SS) and cables that are in the same quality range that the optimum ratio of speaker cables to IC's is between 3:1 and 1:1. Typically you cannot go wrong w... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Sean - what I do in my own reference system to eliminate most of the "dynamic loading effects" is the following:Preamp with very low-impedance output - 7 ohmsPower amps with very low impedance outputSpeakers with flat impedance response - 3 ohmsCa... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Flex wrote:"In response to the original post, cable differences go deeper than coloration. Two cables can be equally neutral on chromatic scale, yet differ greatly in macro/micro dynamics, noise floor, speed, clarity, detail resolution versus smoo... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Sean wrote:"What is being said here is that a cable can be good even though it doesn't transfer all of the information that was fed into it."No, what I said was that certain cables do not mate synergistically with certain components, at least with... | |
| Which cables go with what????? Sean - Robert (of Ridge Street) and I have come to the same conclusions for a reason. It is experience. When you design a truly neutral cable, any system that it goes into benefits from it. The cable is really like no cable at all. There is really... |