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| FYI: Goertz Zobel Networks Non-polarized capacitors are polarized, so you can orient them one way and get one sound / reading and flip them around and get different sound / readings.Really? I guess I have learned something then. I just had Andy Bartha, who does mods over fo... | |
| Speaker cable suggestions Here is a recent PF shootout with Audience:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue5/empirical7.htm | |
| Excellent Audience Customr Service Seems to me that it would be better if there were no service calls at all..... This is the best service. | |
| advice on brightness Inexpensive wires can easily cause HF sibilance, particularly silver wires. In order to eliminate this, you will need continuous cast copper or silver or what I call "Perfect Crystal" wires. There are no cables except maybe some Harmonic Tech that... | |
| Speaker cable suggestions You can get a better sound with single-wire and decent low-inductance jumpers, and it will cost less. Most reviewers are shying away from biwire now. My theory is that the reason that biwire caught on so strongly was that a few speakers actually b... | |
| Balanced interconnect from DAC to preamp... The primary advantage of balanced signalling is the common-mode noise rejection. If you have ground-loops that are causing buzzing or whistling, balanced IC's can help if inserted in the right places.It is a common misconception that you can run b... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started ChrisVH - a question. Do you have patents on the cable designs that you are referring to?Seems to me the right to litigate intellectual property is based on having a patent first. Otherwise, it is just a trade secret, which have the nasty habit of... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started subaruguru wrote:The advantage of this Belden is that it's shielded and all-Teflon dielectric.The shielding I see as a disadvantage, the Teflon is good. There is no scientific reason to shield either power cords or speaker cables unless you are wa... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started If you want to meet code requirements and have a really low-inductance path to your components, particularly your amps, then this is what I would recommend (several have followed this advice and are astonished by the improvement):Buy three wires, ... | |
| Speaker Cables Zaikesman makes a very salient point here, that it is very dependent on both amp and speaker combination and on personal tastes. I personally do not like the sound of Cardas, but I find the AZ stuff very good and similar to my own designs. When yo... | |
| AudioQuest RF Stoppers This is probably noise from your amp. Have you replaced the tubes lately?If you have to put your ear up to the tweeters to hear it, this is normal. If it is loud enough to hear from the listening position, you have something else goin on. May be R... | |
| BEST CHOICE OF INTERCONNECTS Your equipment is too good to consider anything but Nordost Valhalla, Purenote, Sahuaro, Acoustic Zen and Empirical Audio | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Sean wrote:If one could resonate a cable that introduced a perfect non-reactive 75 ohm load at that frequency, you would end up with no standing waves.There may be no standing waves to a pure sine wave at that frequency, but you would certainly ex... | |
| un-screwing acoustic zen cables Locking RCA's are not all they are cracked-up to be. | |
| Copper v. Silver Michael - how do you solder platinum wire? |