davemitchell
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| Does the"quality" of jumpers affect the sound? Does anyone have an opinion as to whether it is best to stick with one brand of cable for bi-wiring? If your goal is making your speaker sound more coherent, then sticking to one brand of wire is a good idea. I would even recommend making sure tha... | |
| Best component cables silver or copper The reason silver plated copper works so well for video and not so well for analog audio is that at video (and digital) frequencies, which are very high, nearly the entire signal rides on the skin of the conductor rather than through the core. Thi... | |
| Does the"quality" of jumpers affect the sound? Notwithstanding the statements about jumpers making a difference and connecting at either the high or low side, cross wiring + to hi and - to low, cannot make any difference since the current is AC and effectively the + & - change continuously... | |
| Does the"quality" of jumpers affect the sound? Anyone ever try wiring the positive to the tweeter and negative to the bass while using jumpers?Yes, that is the best way to single-wire if you have to. Otherwise, whichever part of the speaker you connect directly to will sound noticeably better ... | |
| Processor input The processor input is fixed at unity gain. This means that the loudness of a surround processor will be identical to what you would hear if you listened to its output directly. That is the whole purpose of a processor input. It is technically not... | |
| Need Help Combating Power Amp hum Sorry Chasmo, when I read your original post and you mentioned speakers, I thought you were hearing hum through them. Sounds like transformer hum. | |
| Advice on tube amp/pre I sell and own ARC and ProAc. Stuart Tyler (ProAc's designer) has used Audio Research tube amplifiers for years. The D25's get along very well with any of the tube preamps from the SP16 on up and also don't need very much power. I drive them with ... | |
| Need Help Combating Power Amp hum Most hum is caused by a ground loop created when you have two or more components plugged into your electrical service with third prong grounds. You can try to cheat out the grounds on everything other than one component (usually the preamp), which... | |
| ARC Ref3 Bal-SE button..what for? The BAL/SE switch is NOT for the outputs, but specifically for optimizing the circuit to match your INPUT. The output selection is made automatically by the type of cables you have connected to your amplifier. | |
| ARC Ref3 Bal-SE button..what for? The REF3 is a truly balanced preamp with differential circuitry. When set to SE instead of BAL, the additional signal path required for balanced sources is shorted to ground, which prevents it from picking up unwanted noise. You will still get sou... | |
| Help: Order of importance: Pre, Amp, DAC, speakers The difference between a $1000 pair of speakers and a $10,000 pair of speakers will in most cases be staggering, but the difference between a $1,000 amp-preamp-cd player and a $10,000 amp-pre-cdp will often be quite subtle.This is a partly true st... | |
| Have you seen Eric Clapton at his best? Sorry, for instant Greg Koch gratification check out the following youtube link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQQIT4SJHpY | |
| Have you seen Eric Clapton at his best? When Clapton was in his prime and in the zone, he was very good. He can still make some magic happen on the right night. There were some nice moments on the Cream reunion DVD. "The best" to each of us is going to be different. For me, Clapton is a... | |
| Q. on shootout between time/phase coherent speaker Most Vandersteens are pretty easy to drive. The exception is the 3A Signature which is a 4 ohm load. 1C's, 2Ce Sigs, 2Ce MKII's and Quatros are quite easy for most amplifiers. | |
| bi wiring Frank, With very few exceptions, you really don't want to use two completely different models or brands of cables for biwiring. You want the two cables to be identical or at least very similar in character. I believe that the reason you like the s... |