carl109
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| Long run speaker wires A related question to this thread... Does long speaker runs for rears stuff your timing if the cables to your fronts are much shorter? For movies it's probably not critical, but what about multichannel music (SACD/DVD-A)? | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables Ryder, I think you just hit the nail on the head with one of the ongoing flaws with forums like these.Despite the fact that electronics and physics theory have been studied, researched and set in stone for longer than most of us have been alive (a... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables Ah yes Ryder, but from the Wikipedia link you posted: "The skin effect is the tendency of an alternating electric current (AC) to distribute itself within a conductor so that the current density near the surface of the conductor is greater than th... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables "In the transmission of the signal in digital cables, electron travels down the cable at the frequencies used by audio/video signals. The higher the frequency of the signal, the more this signal is pushed to the surface of the cable, and the skin ... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables Quoting directly from "Electronics for Dummies" page 222, here's a bit on digital waveforms..."Digital Waveform: A DC signal that varies between no volts (low) to some pre-determined voltage (high). The digital circuitry interprets the timing and ... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables If analog audio is AC, then doesn't that also defeat the purpose of direcional arrows on interconnects as well as speaker cables?My understanding was that audio signals could be carried as DC, but that AC was required for speakers to allow them to... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables As far as I'm aware, the output stages of CD players, tuners and preamps is DC. That's why the power supplies of such devices turn your wall outlet AC into low voltage DC to do their work. It's only at the output stage of the power amplifier where... | |
| Speaker cable Question? Perhaps the 8 ft reference simply evolved from the average distance people tend to place speakers apart, allowing for plenty of slack so as not to strain the terminals at either end. Just my theory anyway...You can't make a short cable longer, but... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables No offence, but I think a few members really need to do a bit of basic reading on electronics to understand AC and DC current. Without getting bogged down here, DC (direct current, or fixed polarity) is what takes the information from source to pr... | |
| Best component cables silver or copper Glenn, my post was not at all intended to denigrate you or your post, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. I was simply responding to your quote of the manufacturer's claim about a special bonding process to produce a 'near alloy', which I assum... | |
| Best component cables silver or copper "to "fuse" the silver into the copper creating a near alloy."This is exactly my problem with the dodgy marketing of some expensive cables. They use pseudo-science phrases like "near alloy" to hopefully impress hifi enthusiasts into thinking their ... | |
| Best component cables silver or copper From speaking with a cable manufacturer (the owner in fact), I learnt that the skin effect is far more pronounced (and beneficial) in video transmission than audio, so silver-plated copper is probably the best combo for video frequencies.Having sa... | |
| "Great RCA interconnects under $100?" Never thought I'd start a "what watch do you wear" thread, but there you go!Just for closure, I wear a $150 Casio (big bells & whistles model) that only gains 4 second per month; not bad huh?Time to go listen to some music I think... | |
| Does the"quality" of jumpers affect the sound? Now this is interesting; I've always just wired to the lower posts on my B&W's (I don't biwire). Is there a case for wiring to the tweeter posts, so the jumpers carry the signal to the bass drivers?Any experiences in how it affects the sound? | |
| will the day come when? Discrete CD players may become hard to find, but I reckon decent Universal DVD/Harddrive players will be around for a long time. Given the amount of money MR & MRS Average (like me) have invested in CD's and DVD's over the past 20+ years, it w... |