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| Silver DIY Interconnects I agree with Sean, 22 gauge will be fine, however, smaller is better when it comes to silver. Silver's skin-effect is more pronounced than copper.Be aware that you might be able to achieve some of the parametrics, such as RLC, but your DIY IC will... | |
| Upsampling DVD player Believe it or not the $139 Pioneer player advertised in Audio Advisor is really an outstanding upsampler. It just needs a couple of minor power supply upgrades. I know a guy who does this (as well as selling speakers and crossover components) - he... | |
| A new cd transport I have done shootouts with modified MF A3 and Perpetual Tech P-3A. I found both of them to benefit from low-jitter transports. The de-jitter circuits are really not that effective. I do digital mods to reduce jitter, so I have transports with very... | |
| Upgrade AVP or buy outbd DAC for improved 2 ch. I have an AVP in my reference sytem, as well as a Mark Levinson #38 Pre with my mods. I have compared the AVP to passive line-stages that I built to see how good it was. The interesting thing is that the stock AVP is actually very close to a line-... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? I do not buy the capacitance argument. My cords add only a few hundred pF of capacitance, yet they are 10X lower inductance than the ROMEX in the wall. Until you have heard a really low inductance cord for yourself, you cannot know what the improv... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Redbeard - I suggest you measure the current in your power cords. I suspect that you will find spectral components higher than 20 kHz. Current, not Voltage ...Duh. Unless you have an expensive power supply that is designed properly in your compone... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Depends on the dampers and their position with respect to the conductors. In general, adding parallel (shunt) capacitance is not a problem, but adding series inductance is. If you had an LCR meter this would tell you whether you are degrading it o... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Here is my explanation - and the theory behind my cable designs:Amplifiers demand current from the power-line when the capacitors in their power-supplies become momentarily discharged due to high-current transients in the music signal. This discha... | |
| what speaker cables would you use? Check-out the series of speaker cable reviews by Bob Neill on:http://www.positive-feedback.com | |
| Upper midrange glare prominence -- I believe it's your source. If you were to use the CDP as a transport and get a Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC modified by Dan Wright and a good digital cable, this would add a lot of sweetness to the midrange and achieve better detal overall, no... | |
| Speaker cables for Maggie 3.5s http://www.positive-feedback.comhas a series of reviews by Bob Neill on speaker cables. | |
| Long IC/Short Speaker or Short IC/ Long Speaker Zoya wrote:If you're not using balanced IC, it should be as short as possible. Otherwise, it will act like antennaNot exactly. Short is better for both balanced and unbalanced because they both have capacitance and the low-pass filtering effect is... | |
| Long IC/Short Speaker or Short IC/ Long Speaker One data point is my analysis on this subject at the Audio FAQ page at:http://www.empiricalaudio.comDepends entirely on the relative quality of your cables. | |
| cable suggestions for new system If you are not looking to spend a lot, you can get good results with boldercables.com Nitro's or Bogdan - see the interconnects on the home pageIf you want to expose all of the music and make it a religious experience, then Acoustic Zen or Empiric... | |
| Clarification of biwire, biwire shotgun, etc..... I believe that your definitions are as close as anything I have heard. |