eldartford
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| Speaker cable length for L/R channels critical? Theaudiotweak...Not to belabor the point, but a 20KHz wave traveling at 916 Million ft/sec is 45,000 ft long (about 8.7 miles). Ten feet represents 0.000218 of a wavelength, and corresponds to a phase angle of 0.078 degrees. My brain/ears are not ... | |
| Speaker cable length for L/R channels critical? Ceb222...But what is "electricity". I think it is the disturbance, not the matter, and the disturbance does propagate at or near light speed. | |
| Speaker cable length for L/R channels critical? In context of speaker wires, the difference between 982 Million feet per second, and 916 Million feet per second is something that only a Physicist would worry about :) | |
| What is "west coast sound" AR was not only New England, but Boston, and they operated a demo studio (not a sales room) in Harvard square. Formal atire, optional. | |
| Cartridge too heavy for tonearm counterweight... Try bubble gum. Sweet midrange. | |
| Discontinued components that you wish the manufact Philip_m_dev...You mention Log taper. What ever happened to "Audio" taper, which was slightly different? Log taper is an inferior substitute. | |
| What am I looking for with strobe disc? The "strobe light" can just be an inexpensive neon circuit tester. Any light source that flickers with the power line frequency. Fluorescent lights used to work, but I think they have improved them so they don't flicker these days.The effect, if a... | |
| Digital jitter and disk treament tweak Pbowne...Your PC has a serious problem. All the PCs that I have used at home and at work NEVER need to have their clocks reset. My $26 Timex watch is the same. I only set it twice a year when daylight savings time comes and goes.Of course, this th... | |
| Speaker cable length for L/R channels critical? Mt10425...At the speed sound travels, (about 1000 ft/sec) a 10 foot difference would matter. But what travels in speaker cables is electricity, not sound, and at about 982 Million feet per second there will be no measurable timing difference betwe... | |
| directional arrows on interconnects Sean..."In the recorded program" not caused by playback (as with LP surface noise). | |
| Digital jitter and disk treament tweak Andy2...Inexpensive Quartz crystal clocks are so nearly perfect that I don't think you can blame jitter on them. Actually, one can have a clock with zero error. All you need to do is buy one that implements the NIST definition of time. This was a ... | |
| "Power hungry" speakers Sean...I find that "large scale classical" pieces often run about 76 dB most of the time, with occasional louder passages. The way I determine this is by playing a concerto (for example: violin) or a vocal piece. I ask myself "is the violin louder... | |
| balanced is inherently flawed Sean...IMHO, We are talking about such low voltage/current level signals that connector contact resistance is of little consequence. The practical advantage of DIN connectors is that they lock in place. RCAs are easily pulled out.Any time you use ... | |
| Digital jitter and disk treament tweak If digital logic of CD players were properly designed jitter from readout of the spinning disc would have no effect on the audio output. The serial data would go into a buffer register and then clocked out at a perfectly uniform rate. Perhaps the ... | |
| directional arrows on interconnects Cables made with TSP (Twisted Shielded Pair) wire, include a high and low signal conductor, so the shield is separate and ought to be (and is) grounded at one end only. I use such directional wires as intended with the arrow pointing away from the... |