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| Highly Polished wire???? Trelja - the manufacturer who challenged the audio community to prove the purity of their wire over 99.99% is Silver AudioThe rest of the story goes like this:The shameful practice of claiming ridiculous and completely impossible levels of silver ... | |
| Which comm. speaker mfgr. makes the best cabinet? Okay.. a little more clarification as to why I selected Wilson-Benesch (which is a relatively rare and nearly unknown speaker in the US) as having the "best" cabinet for quality, function, design and construction. Since I could not state it any be... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Oh.. ya... sorry I was unclear, it will connect perfectly with the RCA cables. It's the two source signals per channel in each XLR cable (balanced) that the Supratek circuit isn't designed for. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I asked Mick to do that upgrade for me on my first preamp and unfortunately he said he couldn't. If the signal from your CDP is truly balanced, the Supratek cannot handle it - for whatever reason. | |
| Which comm. speaker mfgr. makes the best cabinet? Okay... Lets not forget the originator, Wilson Benesch!!Check out the Wilson Benesch Act One | |
| Highly Polished wire???? Interesting Tekunda, you waltz into this thread and inform us that your main squeeze (Dr. Strassner) says polishing cables to a "mirror like" finish is MARKETING HYPE.And then you screw with our minds by informing us about some super fancy "Specia... | |
| Highly Polished wire???? Hi Ozfly - the wire is (I believe) manufactured by a Danish company called OdiO. Below is a link to a Chinese website (written in English) which distributes the wire.THL AudioYou can at times find this wire available on Ebay (but the seller does n... | |
| Highly Polished wire???? Another thing I forgot to mention. Dan2112 mentions above the use of Jewelers Rouge for polishing the wire.Looking at a table of dielectric constants I found the following: *Note - Teflon is usually considered the best dielectric next to air for a... | |
| Highly Polished wire???? Tim you're too kind. Heck, I don't know if the manufacturer was throwing me marketing hype or not. He could be full of it... but the explaination sounds valid.One thing I noticed having done multiple DIY projects with wire is that every change mad... | |
| mixing tubes and transistors Guess I'll through this in for thought... I believe it puts more shock on the tube component (lowering tube life) to power off and on frequently vs. just leaving it on. Depending on the history of your tubes (new or NOS or USED), one can expect u... | |
| AudioMeca vs. AudioAero vs. Electrocompaniet Hi Sutts - with the AA Capitole. Number one source cable (in popularity) right now is the Dave Elrod's EPS-2. I haven't been able to get my hands on one yet but from what I have read about these, they are outstanding. You might ask around - do a p... | |
| Surround Cable Recommendations Gotta remember here that when you run 35' of cable - to each speaker the total is 70'. Making even "cheap" spooled wire rather pricey at 2/3/4 bucks a foot. This audio hobby can be a black hole for cash if we do not plan our purchases strategicall... | |
| Surround Cable Recommendations I too have used the IXOS 13 AWG stranded wire from Accessories4Less.com and found it to be a significant step up from that junk wire found at Home Depot.You might also try MIT Terminator 4 or 5 cables from Audio Advisor A twenty five (25) foot pai... | |
| Highly Polished wire???? I recently purchased some "special" silver wire for some crazy DIY project I dreamt up. Anyhow this wire does in fact sound great! - the manufacturer of the wire said, "The wire supplied to you is burr-free and polished to a mirror-like finish, th... | |
| Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps Interesting topic. Unfortunately high end gear is pretty darn ugly.McIntosh does a good job of producing a unique looking product - which is attractive - to some. See the Tube MC2000 for a splendid example.Rcprince is correct about both the Jadis ... |