holmz
Responses from holmz
| A rookie with 10K, seeking advise Whatever you do, do not waste the money on cables and power conditioners. That’s the very last 1-2% improvement after you’ve already got your reference system. Spending money on power conditioners instead of better speakers is the worst advice I’... | |
| Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary? @marco1 - I appreciate your subtlety.🤗 | |
| Best interconnects from preamp to amps, within budget I ordered a set of 12’ Mogami Gold interconnects. The name was mentioned the most and I really like what I read about them. The 6’ cables would have been too short. I just hope 12’ isn’t too long and I lose signal strength. If that’s even possibl... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In Some masking tape on the floor helps. And changing the lyrics to “Toe the line”…. 😎 | |
| Playing with Cartirdge loading on my phono stage Thanks @atmasphere - Ralph you are a gentleman, and your thoughts, and guidance, are very much appreciated. | |
| SQ difference XLR vs RCA ? Based on my experience XLR has always sounded better. I can’t think of a single time when I used XLR’s that I wish I had used RCA. I am sure we could find some other piece of gear that would not sound better. Balance components are basical... | |
| Playing with Cartirdge loading on my phono stage It would be better to use a distortion analyzer, but this would only be of benefit if the phono section can't deal with the RFI on its own. If the phono section does deal with the RFI properly, you'll see no benefit from the loading in terms of d... | |
| SQ difference XLR vs RCA ? My question is this: if I have a quiet system with short runs, do balanced connections sound better? They should not sound worse. As the noise increases, and the runs get longer, the balanced stays better for longer. Basically: If it s... | |
| Best interconnects from preamp to amps, within budget Go to "Mogami Ave" it has EVERYTHING you need on budget. @czarivey one still needs the Neutrik ProFi or XRL ends ;) Mogami 2534 Quad wire. I purchased 6ft made by World's Best for about $70 on Amazon. Many places can made a bespoke leng... | |
| Best Type of Interconnect for Turntable? On page 2 here: it says: Renaissance offers both a phono and XLR breakout box for the arm at purchase (the XLR box is a £175 option otherwise I would determine, wether you want a balanced phono stage, etc, before going too far. And th... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In and I know this sounds counter intuitive, but I toed-in both just slightly, and, wala, it worked. Wider stage. @bkeske - yep, that is counter intuitive… but listening to it, and liking it, is hard to argue. Sometimes it is weird and magical how... | |
| Best interconnects from preamp to amps, within budget At a $200 price point strata, it’s largely distilled down to a “ just pick one of ‘em” exercise. ^This^ Or get the wire and ends. Plus a soldering iron, and solder. and then make them yourself. it is a lot of cables based upon the gear list. ... | |
| Amp Internal Wire I'm not getting into the debate over conductor material but would recommend Teflon for the insulator. Why? High melting temperature so less likely to damage it while soldering and then there is the whole low dielectric absorption thing. Well ... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In What I found is that I prefer no Toe-In. That is, I prefer the speakers straight out into the room. If your room was reflective, then you might like toe in. The fact that you like no toe in, to me says more about your room, than about your spe... | |
| Amp Internal Wire @theaudiomaniac Like I said, @holmz , all yours. Crazy posts draw out crazy people. How would we know it is crazy? There are no measurements or rational indicators to go by. I can see inductors and transformers making a difference. And the e... |