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| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? @jumia A shielded RCA cable (not coax) is 2 conductors, one for ground, and one for signal, plus a 3rd "conductor" which is the shield. The shield will extend the full length of the cable, but only connect on one end. The shield is effectively a... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing @barts, many who can afford Ferraris (not all) can also afford to take them to the track and live with the consequences of their screw up. Who is going to take their speakers to a different room if they don't have a custom one? Of course, who has ... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered I have no doubt it will be useful at some point in the future. I also have no doubt that it will not be in the field of audio reproduction. I also have no doubt some cable company will claim to use this effect even though it is totally untrue. I a... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing @jl35 My personal opinion, and really, it is only that. I have a sneaking suspicion that the average person who spend $500K+ on speakers is not an audiophile. I am sure some are, but I expect many are not. I would even question how many of those... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) If you are on the web, an older individual (I consider myself somewhat in that vein) wasting both time and mental energy to rant about the quality of music made today, while extolling the virtues of your personally favourite time and genre, then ... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered @moonwatcher , our "experts", as communicated in the article, fully expected this result. They were never able to prove it till now. | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @johnk , I see no physical mechanism by which a horn speaker would throw better than a dynamic speaker. The impedance matching improves efficiency, but it is still effectively a point source so it must follow the inverse square law. Only a line a... | |
| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? It is often best to connect the shield on only one end. Is it always best? | |
| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? Your thinking is flawed @kijanki. You have an erroneous understanding of how noise induces (or does not) induce current into these circuits and hence have drawn incorrect conclusions about what the result will be. If the noise is flowing in a loop... | |
| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? I absolutely guarantee your fellow engineers will write it as KHz. I just did a quick scan of emails from my engineers and I can find many instances of it. It is probably why I do it. Most of these are MSEE and some PhD. I am working on engineers ... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @inscrutable If you are basing that off so called dynamic range databases, keep in mind that dynamic range may be based on a "time period", not instantaneous (well fraction of seconds - second) dynamic range. In a given frequency range, I would... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? So now you are poking holes in those that proselytize first order cross-overs for better time alignment :-) In many ways speakers are much more interesting that the other parts of an audio system, but so much less time seems to be spent discussi... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @audiokinesis , I was more thinking smart people, i.e. like what I see with Kii, as a start, will figure out some way to compensate for these effects in real time. From a simpler aspect, would not an active cross-over system be more immune to the ... | |
| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? As I clearly said, from the speaker standpoint, the speaker itself is balanced, however, if you are considering noise on the speaker cables induced back into the amplifier, it most definitely is not balanced because the impedance on either cable i... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @audiokinesis Thank you for the post. Very interesting. This is something that was in the back of my head to look at for a while but never took the time. To me it makes all these discussions, not to mention the concept of 4, 5, 6 figure speaker ... |