dgarretson
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| DIY Jumper Suggestions My shields on DIY speaker cables and PCs are inspired by an audio friend's extended experiments with this approach and with grounding boxes applied across an entire system of cables, components, and speakers. Also, by some extreme techies on Comp... | |
| DIY Jumper Suggestions I’m unsure which approach offers the least capacitance. I stacked them partly for aesthetics, but mostly so that the compact stack, bound together with one final jacket of teflon tape, can be drawn easily through a silk jacket for damping. For shi... | |
| DIY Jumper Suggestions To clarify, I use silver foil for long speaker cables, but 8awg silver round wire for jumpers. It's difficult to use bare, unterminated foil as jumpers. And for jumpers, why would one want to resort to spade terminations with degrading solder an... | |
| DIY Jumper Suggestions Each speaker wire conductor is a stack of four or five 1/4" flat silver ribbons, each wrapped separately in plumber’s teflon tape. It sounds similar to Duelund foil.Each AC power cord conductor is a twist of ten 20awg .999 dead soft silver round ... | |
| DIY Jumper Suggestions Here it is.https://www.riogrande.com/product/999-Fine-Silver-Round-Wire-8-Ga-Dead-Soft/105308 | |
| DIY Class D amps I placed an order today for the Hypex 400W Ncore monos kit. It was appealing that with this kit, I might later try substituting a linear PS like Paul Hynes in place of the stock SMPS. My current amps are Pass XA160.8 monos. | |
| DIY Class D amps Thanks, Eric. Do you have a preference between the Hypex Ncore and the Ghent ICE monoblocks? They are close in price. | |
| In need of stabilizer/puck for a Sony SCD-777ES It's not in the obvious places, but I'll keep looking. | |
| In need of stabilizer/puck for a Sony SCD-777ES I may have an extra one from a unit I pulled for parts. I'll check and see. | |
| “MQA is a philosophy”..John Stuart I have at least that many LPs and CDs/digital files, but I have to admit that MQA streaming of Tidal through Roon has been a revelation. Roon core software does the first MQA unfold to 24/96 or 24/88.2, and you don't need an MQA DAC to hear the d... | |
| AES/EBU suggestions for Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ and PS Audio PerfectWave Transport Benchmark Media combines the Canare 110 ohm cable with Neutrik XLRs for a $40 AES/EBU cable that works fine. | |
| SME 312S issue The best way to adjust azimuth with that arm is to acquire a removable headshell with built-in azimuth adjustment. Jelco offers a nice and inexpensive magnesium headshell with the feature.I think I have that same Chinese add-on VTA adjustment kit... | |
| SME 312S issue Actually, a cartridge spacer, if flat across the entire surface, will make the problem worse. The SME arm has this problem with tall cartridges or thick headshells. In order to open up space between the cue pad and the tonearm, you need to add ... | |
| The most fun you can have in audio is DIYing your own speakers @erik_squires Also, the marketing emphasis of most high-end manufacturers is almost always on cabinets and drivers, maybe because these are the visible parts.BTW the epoxy/brass reinforcement brought out a huge improvement in bass definition, over... | |
| The most fun you can have in audio is DIYing your own speakers Those big commercial markups also make it intriguing to modify off-the-shelf commercial speakers, particularly low- to mid-priced models where there is less concern about resale value. Such models are often well-designed, but built to cost with st... |