ieales
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| Blue Jeans Cable Sound Good??? @djones51 -I fail to see how anything more than a basic 12 guage speaker wire which the manufacturer recommends is going to matterThere are many ways to arrive @ 12ga, any of which may sound different or not depending on amplifier and loudspeaker.... | |
| Bias adjustment on solid state amplifiers Because it's a set once and forget forever issue with SS amps. Also, you aren't as much setting bias as DC offsetNot true. Bias is applied to both sides, so current increases, but net voltage remains zero.IMO, bias drift accounts for varying sonic... | |
| Caps for crossover upgrade for Opera Grand Callas Loudspeakers I'd really love to try using smaller CMR caps to build up larger valuesThus decreasing L disproportionately to C increase. L and ESR calculations get messy with non-identical capacitors. Doubly so when mixing dielectrics and manufacturers .Bottom ... | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Sound Good??? @teo_audio - coax is not used for balanced connections. Shield and ground are not the same. In balanced connections one rarely wants ground and shield connected. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_audio@djones51 - the cable in the speaker ... | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Sound Good??? For your configuration, assuming the amp is a balanced input, you should be using a twin or star-quad cable.At the RCA, screen and -ve connection are to RCA GndAt the XLR, pin 1 should not be connected to screenIf using twin or star-quad cables, R... | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Sound Good??? Without listening to the cable, is there any way to make a good choice of which cables to purchase, like amp power, receiver and speakers on regards to ohms, speakers etc...Yes, IF you know all component factors regarding impedance, both in and o... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects It also does not make sense to put cables on equipment where the cable are worth more than the equipment.This is bad advice Price equates little with performance.If $3k speaker cables make $1.5k speakers sound better than $0.5k cables and $5k spe... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects For the purpose of this conversation, I was telling a long time audiophile friend of mine I am surprised these take away from the midrange considering I was running the cheap monoprice interconnects. Figured they would be at least as good in that ... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects If you are using balanced connections, the screen should be lifted at the destination end.If you use single end termination at the destination, it forms low-pass filters for common-mode noise resulting in degraded CMRR at higher frequencies.Unbala... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects easy, millercarbon. What’s your beef?There is no relation to the quotes leaving out the intervening paragraphs. Other listeners may have turfed out the Music Links on first listen to alternate electronics. "sounded fine" means only they did not cr... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects For the past 15 years, I've used Transparent Music Link interconnects. They sounded fine with every amplifier every tried, be it tube or SS.Recently auditioned of a pair of tube monoblocks. Sound was just awful. No stage, harsh, grating, no air, u... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects Save your money.There is no guarantee that changing cables will change, let alone improve, your system one iota and there is an even chance that it will be worse!!!DO NOT BUY ANYTHING RECOMMENDED BY ANYONE HERE UNLESS THEY HAVE AN IDENTICAL SYSTEM... | |
| The Science of Cables If two items are sufficiently similar, differences may be miniscule in the test system. This leads to "there is no difference".Not everyone can detect a clearly measurable difference. With a large enough sample population, results will hit 50% | |
| Lightning quick DYNAMIC amp in the under $1000 range I really liked the NuPrime ST-10.http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2017-editors-choice-power-amplifiers-1000-3000/I have a PrimaLuna PL5, but it lacks a bit of power @ 4Ω. The ST-10 has plenty of power, great balance and images very well wi... | |
| Soundstaging and Imaging: Not an Illusion I go to the concert hall with some regularity. I don’t hear the pinpoint imaging, and depth and the rest of it, even in the first row.Ditto on the concert hall, tonight in fact. Imaging is not pinpoint, but depth? Surely you don't mean the oboe is... |