carl109
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| A question about the logic of interconnect cables Hang on Audiofeil, you've just stated my comments are erroneous but then pointed me back to your previous post which is just assumptions - unless you're a component designer for an established brand, that is.I'll back my statement up with some evi... | |
| A question about the logic of interconnect cables I'd hazard a guess that most manufacturers don't make aftermarket powercords because they know high-end PC's are a big con. As for "offending" other manufacturers... what have you been smoking?To answer the original question; any wiring within a c... | |
| sub+satellite or full range? If you're talking for music, I'd be a bit more cautious than many of the above replies.Traditional subs were designed primarily for the low frequency effects of movies, not music. Given that such LF noises are not directional, you just had one sub... | |
| Crunch time: headphones $150.... You should be able to grab the excellent Grado SR80's (or even SR125 if you're lucky) for that money.I stopped using my Sennheiser HD280's after buying the Grado's. Some find the Grado's a bit bright, but for me that helped the fact that my old ea... | |
| Stranded vs singal core conductors and skin effect "But, different salts (or, spices) do taste different in the same way that different cables sound different."Bob's right I'm afraid; salt is salt. It's a sodium chloride crystal and if pure will taste the same regardless of what brand it is. Howev... | |
| Cable elevators - conventional wisdom wrong? There's a few interesting points here.Firstly, Justin who has the Shunyata's, says he thinks the lego would have much the same effect. This is what I meant by snake-oil sellers; I'll bet the Shunyata's are a bit more expensive than Lego!Secondly, ... | |
| Cable elevators - conventional wisdom wrong? I doubt there was any "conventional wisdom" to begin with. As Shadorne said, there is simply no reason to bother suspending speaker cables off the floor.They're not susceptible to low-level vibration the way your turntable or CDP would be, and sta... | |
| I'm shocked You'll find lots of info here:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1199576056&read&keyw&zzps1It seems important to find certain early model numbers. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Osgorth, I think you've just done the test many here may have preferred you hadn't. Well done! From a technical point of view, there's no reason for digital cables to sound different provided they're made to a good basic standard, but there are pl... | |
| HDCD help please My limited understanding is that HDCD discs are encoded using 20bit instead of 16bit, giving a more accurate and detailed analog waveform result. It should be an improvement on standard Redbook CD's, and I would assume that discs labelled "digital... | |
| Biwire posts; how to connect? Thanks all. I'll leave the jumpers in place and wire to the HF posts.Markphd, thanks for the elaborate explanation of biwiring. I do understand it and believe it works, but for the time being I'm just single wiring with my current amp (NAD c320). | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? Brian, I think we have our wires crossed. The CD-PC-Ipod chain is the easy bit.My comments about the "headaches" are more referring to the subsequent use of the iPod as a high grade source by spending $$$ on devices like the Wadia, which it seems ... | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? "Why does it no longer become portable? You just pull it off the iTransport, plug in your headphones and away you go!"I realise that - I have a Nano for portable listening at work etc, where sound quality isn't critical.I suppose you only have to ... | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? I must be missing something. This all seems like an awful lot of money and trouble to end up with something that a good music server could do for a lot less money. Just for example, what can a Wadia plus iPod do that, say, a Cambridge 740H server ... | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? "They actually re-clock the digital signal so that they reduce jitter to almost zero."I'm not too conversant with this topic, but I would have thought that jitter wasn't really an issue with music file playback (such as mp3, AAC, lossless etc) sin... |