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| Electraglide Ultra Kahn / Shunyata Anaconda vx Jason, Since you have experience with these cables, can you describe the differences between the Epiphany and the Ultra Kahn Statement II Rev. What about the bass on both (tight?) The Epiphany seems to be a higher gauge version of the UK Statement... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? That's actually the purpose in getting research out of the hands of any company, Psychic. Academic research is aimed at truth, not at what is going to sell a lot of radios or fit the consumer's desire for convenient and invisible. | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? I agree wholeheartedly with the intent of Sean, Tommywall and others above. There is a huge need in my view to finally get some of this cable craziness over with and down to a set of rational scientific models that are testable and verifiable. $60... | |
| Electraglide Ultra Kahn / Shunyata Anaconda vx Sean, I have four power cables of similar design. Each of the manufacturers has insisted that their cables are accurate and measure linearly. This probably means linear using a frequency sweep. One of the manufacturers even goes so far as to quote... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Sean,You have prompted my curiosity on several occasions with these statements, so let me ask whether you have any real evidence or whether these are your hypotheses.First, what exactly constitutes a well enough designed power supply that cables d... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Cables have been researched extensively in both aerospace and computer science, but I suppose you'd have to say, with different objectives. Not with respect to audible effects, and not for the highly 'experimental' geometries/materials tried out b... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Sean -A comment on your comment on mechanical resonance in cables. I don't argue the existence of microphonics at all. Though cables that can shake a component chassis have to be *really* big and heavy; it's much more common that a cable attached ... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? The irony in the cable game relative to Sean's post is in trying to get from his paragraph 4 to paragraph 5. (no intent to pick on Sean). It's the fact that cables do change from placement to placement that causes people to spend so much money buy... | |
| Isolation for power line conditioner? Warren's point about microphonics is certainly part of the theory and explanation, according to extensive discussion in the past at cable asylum and to a number of good cable designers. This view says that vibration influences cables only if there... | |
| Isolation for power line conditioner? But also note that some of the best, clearest, most resolving, and least smearing power cords do not have mechanical resonance treatment. This subject is still controversial. | |
| Isolation for power line conditioner? Jim Weil, the designer of Sound Application, has worked extensively over the years to try to limit the effects of mechanical resonances on his passive line conditioners and he is never fully satisfied with their immunity. This is a testimony to th... | |
| Isolation for power line conditioner? Has anyone tried a Sound Application on a Mana Sound Stage? | |
| Burr Brown vs. Wolfson dacs..... There are so many aspects of design affecting a player's sound that you, as an end user, probably won't be able to isolate the sound of the dac. Power supply, analog output stage, emi/rfi shielding, chassis ring or damping, and quality of electron... | |
| Power Cord Burn-In Dear Morb, It's also a non-sequitur to discuss the JFK Jr problem, call it "fallible senses vs instrumenation", and then use that as a proof of the limits of hearing. In fact, your comparisons are apples-oranges. You were comparing an optical sen... | |
| Power Cord Burn-In A couple of humorously wrong remarks from the good Dr. Greenman. BTW, my Ph.D. is in an area of physics and also from an ivy league school, but like other Ph.D's, I don't advertise it."Just as pilots have to learn to ignore their fallible senses a... |