holmz
Responses from holmz
| Enough noise reduction? if you're going to get power cords the best ones to get are the rectangular OCC single crystal wire even better than the round OCC single crystal wire. What makes them better @urbie ? | |
| Sound is better when I stand up? All crickets, all the time. Especially at this time of year there is a famous Aussie dessert that usually starts to make an appearance. https://www.food.com/recipe/sticky-date-pudding-with-caramel-sauce-40187 | |
| Enough noise reduction? Sort of like Jiminy cricket, they whistle when they work? @terry9 | |
| Sound is better when I stand up? It is “solution” @asvjerry - As in everyone chucking out multitudes of ideas to try and solve the problem. (Hence it is a shower of things and ideas in “solution space”.) Maybe I should have said it is like playing pin the tail on the donkey? (Whe... | |
| Enough noise reduction? @holmz I'm still doubtful a lab power supply is used. It just doesn't make any sense. A lab 'bench' power supply provides DC, not AC. Also, these components are consumer products meant to operate off of standard household power. If you want t... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience I’m not sure that I completely understand the matter, but it seems that there are two options in cartridge signal amplification in or before the phono stage: either 1. an SUT before the phono stage, or 2. a transistor in the phono stage. eith... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? phusis , by all means enjoy your EVs. @mijostyn I am assuming that you do not abide legacy speakers from a 1/2 century back as being within the spirit of the thread with “Advances in technology” in the title? | |
| Enough noise reduction? I highly doubt that Stereophile and ASR are using lab power supplies for their measurements. @yage and you would be wrong. (Not for amps, but for the front end gear tests… I believe that you are right for amp testing.) If I did not attract a 2... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience @lewm your post gave me pause, and I reviewed Maxwell and Faraday… and I see that the voltage and current are indeed related in Maxwell’s equations. | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? In my younger years i spent a bit of time surf fishing Steelhead on the wild sides of your Island… Paradise…. @tomic601 have you tried NZ? A coworker (Brown) went there and did a bunch of stream work. His guide told him to bait the hook behind... | |
| What do you like and dislike about vintage Western Electric cables? Thanks @mitch2 . I am no expert no it, but did get some “equivilent” cotton covered wire which I need to terminate and install. (Both for speaker and IC) We joke about having to wear gloves to handle the old WE wire, but caution is warranted.... | |
| What do you like and dislike about vintage Western Electric cables? Technically cotton has a lower dielectric constant. I am not sure I abide the theory of dielectric polarity alignment, and hysteresis… but it is not like they could improve with a battery biasing scheme. I do not know what to listen for to prove... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience I can only speak a little to the theory. A step up transformer works on the same principle of voltage transformation used for AC power products. For instance, when you buy gear designed for US voltages but want to use it in Japan. Transforme... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? If anything modern speakers by comparison sound overly processed/filtered, dull, malnourished and quenched of life I am picturing “Young Frankenstein” say ion good, “It’s Alive”… at some point the resonance and distortions could be too mu... | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? If I was you I’d be on the lookout for two used 2wq subs as there are really good deals out there on those subs now, and two very good subs is almost always better than one great one. And IMHO the 2wq was and still is a damn good sub, and two of... |