carl109
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| Best way of connecting bare wire to bare wire Sonia, I think most here would welcome your input, given your background, especially as you've declared your 'conflict of interest'. Welcome to Audiogon!On the topic, my method for good physical and electrical connection would be to tightly twist ... | |
| Burning better CD-Rs from Mac/rec eternal burner "Lossless" is just a word used by Apple to name their highest quality codec. It's still compression and there will always be a degree of "loss" audible, especially when converting back to an audio stream for a CD played on a high fidelity sysem.I ... | |
| Basic Question about Power Cables The above all assumes you're in the US with 120V supply. If you're elsewhere with a different mains voltage, make sure you use that figure for any calculations.That said, your amp is unlikely to draw anywhere near 15amp; that would be 1800 Watts, ... | |
| IPOD Y Cable If you're using the 1/8" jack, Belkin make a good Y-cable for about $30, which I've found does a fine job.That said, Sfar is probably right; use a dock & good RCA IC for a better transfer. | |
| Bi-wiring with different metals? I didn't think different conducting metals would create phase/timing issues over such a short run (8ft) but it costs nothing to ask!My question was inspired by having bi-wireable speakers, and equal lengths of heavy copper cable and silver cable; ... | |
| Directional interconnect cables Plenty of celestial tea for all, shall I pour?Now where is that teapot?..... | |
| Directional interconnect cables Sorry Redkiwi, I was not "attacking" you. You made a statement that I didn't agree with and I said so. It was not at all personal.My definition of proof is "to provide evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true."Kijanki, if you re-read my po... | |
| OK I'm sold on interconnects, now speaker cable? I'd second Imin2u's statement. I have B&W 602 S3 speakers (last year's large standmounts) and have found different speaker cables - even switching from copper to silver - made little discernable difference. I like my 602's, but I believe the 6... | |
| Directional interconnect cables Redkiwi, you might find the theorising pointless, but so is making completely false statements like "A true scientist realises nothing is ever proven".Science can and does prove things by postulating theories, and then repeatedly testing and measu... | |
| Burning better CD-Rs from Mac/rec eternal burner There could be a case for you hunting down a cheap older PC/laptop with a CD-RW burner (not DVD/multi burner) and downloading the free EAC software ("Exact Audio Copy"), which as far as I know wont work on a Mac.I use EAC on my Dell laptop (Win XP... | |
| Switch to silver for a treble boost? Silver speaker cables arrived... initial feeling is that they have made little difference to the upper treble, as a couple of you predicted! My system still seems to sound as if there's a sheet over the speakers.However, they did alter vocals in a... | |
| Directional interconnect cables Musicnoise, could you please change your username to "breath of fresh air"; everytime one of these threads gets severely off track, I always look for a dash of common sense and a dose of scientific reality from you! | |
| How can I improve my CD sound? How do you go listening to compressed music files (eg mp3)? If these sound ok like FM radio, it could be that your hearing is especially sensitive to some forms of digital distortion which would be annoying to your ears from a quality CD player an... | |
| Speaker cables.. Budget again.. With a twist... "At any rate: Electrical or Electron Theory is still just that. The theories that have been put forth concerning electron flow can hardly been observed at the Quantum level at this point in time, thus they are not observable."That may be the case,... | |
| Switch to silver for a treble boost? Knownothing "I was experimenting with different platforms and supports".I have some off-cuts of Caesarstone, a heavy man-made marble which I might try under the player, as it's currently sitting on a large timber unit. And I think I'll give the si... |