erik_squires
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| The Science of Cables And speaking of nonsense, when you gonna be calling NASA ? I'll leave that up to people who have something to sell. If past experience shows anything, NASA has a very open mind right until claims become unproveable. | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. The main pro I would say is the very low distortion with their air-damped diaphragm. Never seen an electrostatic measure well in terms of distortion, if we use the same term used in electronics. ESL's' often _measure_ poorly but sound very good. ... | |
| The Science of Cables @taras22 Produce an explanatory model and exemplar cables based on any of what you have written and then you'll have something to write about. | |
| Replace Caps? Depends. Power supply caps tend to be pretty limited. Signal caps might, especially input/output coupling caps. Best,E | |
| Help!!! Need advice on Refurbishing my two NAD 2600's and a NAD 1700 Pre amp I would strongly suggest you stick to the electrolytic caps, given the age, that's what you are going to want to update and you can't go wrong there. Nichicon's for the big caps, and Panasonic FM's if you can for the 10-100uF caps you are going to... | |
| The Science of Cables What @taras22 has posted reminds me of the dark energy and cold fusion "white papers" I have seen, which of course always turn out to be nonsense. A survey of a lot of different areas of physics, devoid of any practical ability to use them. That i... | |
| The Science of Cables There’s nothing I’ve ever heard in a cable that could not be explained by simple AC circuit analysis, and assuming amplifiers had more output impedance than claimed. Nothing. Best,E | |
| Replace Caps? Generally, most who replace old power supply caps report either nothing, or lower noise and more powerful bass. | |
| Replace Caps? Hey @StingrenThat seems rather vague, can you be more specific? Are you trying to maintain an old amp? Best,E | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? I'm listening to a set up which is essentially a Mytek Brooklyn and two ICEpower modules. It really is quite musical and warm, but there's zero of the tube juiciness, so I can definitely see how that can help. | |
| How to DIY yourself very nice Class D monoblocks Sorry @Ketchup, I can't imagine the need for bridging those amps, but I do see you increasing your complexity dramatically. I'm not sure what the impedance would be, but you can find it from their data sheets. I'd like to strongly suggest to you t... | |
| Mcintosh 250 Transformer Hum Normal It very well could be. Worth checking if it's responding to DC on the line. Turn off everything else in the home, via breakers, and see if it goes away. :) Even if it is DC, it's not harmful, and the only negative effects are your level of annoyan... | |
| Kharma Ceramique 1.0 question That's a rather unfortunate plot though. I wonder why the dip around 100 Hz is there? These always make me a little suspicious. | |
| Is this possible .... The cat has the correct approach for you. :) | |
| Best return for the money, system upgrade suggestions please. Room acoustics, if you don't have that done, is your best place to start. Otherwise your DAC. Best,E |