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| Cable Quality vs Customer Service @soix I contacted Lavricable last night. They will be willing to make me a cable at their Grand rank. They suggested using the Aeco pure copper plug and they have a custom gold plated 2.5mm mono plugs that they use on the other Audioquest cabl... | |
| Cable Quality vs Customer Service @soix I will look into LavriCable; especially after I get my refund. I have a $500 headphone cable budget ;). I am using the Audioquest Night Owls. The stock cable isn’t very good. However, Audioquest did release a better cable called the Night... | |
| Cable Quality vs Customer Service @jwpstayman I sent a pair of 3rd party headphone cables with connectors that could have been cut off and used, but they opted not to do so. They were supposed to call me and ask if I wanted that as an option. I would have selected it. There wa... | |
| Grounding a Powered Subwoofer Causes Volume Increase UPDATE: I discovered that banana plugs fit perfectly in stereo-mini-plug ports. This subwoofer has a stereo mini-plug input that I am never going to use. So I changed the spade to a banana plug and now I am sending any signal or noise that touc... | |
| Grounding a Powered Subwoofer Causes Volume Increase @gdnrbob Yeah, that would make sense. On the Audioengine HD6 and A2+, they'd have a faint "hiss" when they were on and no audio signal was present. This hiss would go away once audio was present and wouldn't appear in quiet moments in a song. A... | |
| Grounding a Powered Subwoofer Causes Volume Increase @russ69 I think I figured it out. I am not certain, but I think I nicked the volume knob slightly when I was attaching the ground. Whereas that would better explain the volume increase, it wouldn't explain how bass at that volume was not distor... | |
| Fun With Cable Risers @matthewscott Awesome. I have a cousin-in-law that told me he’d 3D print my riser design...but alas, that request fell through. I might go ahead and invest in a 3D printer and do it myself. At present, I am having a ball with my Earth Ground bo... | |
| Ortofon Red Sound Issue @rotarius I figured it out, finally. It was the tonearm. I had accidentally knocked the counter weight and it nearly doubled the downforce to 2.8 from 1.8. I remeasured the cartridge orientation. I was using a magnifier to look at the stylus ... | |
| Review Shunyata Venom V16 Power Distributor @gbmcleod Thanks! I discovered how not only vibration is a strong source of distortion, but general EMI even with "shielded" cables. I have an in-law who was going to 3D-print some cable risers and separators, but that seems to have fallen by t... | |
| A Second Noise Floor? @tksteingraber Yes. The heavier gauge made a difference. However, just having a heavy gauge plug wasn't enough. I was originally using 12AWG tinned copper wire with what I originally thought was a high-definition, gold-plated, banana plug. I... | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers I just added GAIA iii to my Sanus speaker stands, replacing its spikes. It was an unusual transformation. Before, the speakers were mostly invisible, with the soundstage taking place in the center, center/left, and center/right. Once I added the f... | |
| Isolation Feet for Laptop @rockysantoro Excellent, it's encouraging to know I am on the right track. :) I am eagerly awaiting the Twonshend Air Platform. Of what I have read, Isoacoustics and Townshend have very comparable results. | |
| Small space listening room I discovered that the placement of the FEQ X4 is important. The sales person basically said it could go anywhere. So, I had it placed in a corner section that mostly aimed itself at one speaker than the other. I finally freed some space so that ... | |
| Isolation Feet for Laptop @jonwatches1 I won't argue that speakers will sound different from one than the other. Nor will I argue that an expensive speaker won't sound better than a cheaper speaker. What I will argue is that a cheaper speaker can't be made to sound goo... | |
| IsoAcoustics GAIA footers: impressions I have ordered the GAIA III for my Sanus speaker stands after having incredible success adding Iscoacoustics OREA to my subwoofer. The speaker stands currently have spikes, which were a better isolation choice than plastic feet at the time. Since... |