irvrobinson
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| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Should I be able to hear a difference between my Monster wires and say a large gage cable from Home Depot? What should I use to do a cheap in home comparison to verify theory for myself?Whether or not you believe you hear a difference is a differe... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Kijanki, skin effect isn't considered significant at audible frequencies. At 20KHz it'll be less than 0.2db, which is truly insignificant in the context of real speakers in a real room.Strand jumping sounds like quasi-technical mumbo-jumbo to me.I... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Why is "strand jumping" bad? | |
| Can You Expalin Why Power Cables Do This? I know it's difficult to accept for some people that power cables can't possibly have the impact on components that some people think they hear, but there's every indication that power cables, of sufficient gauge so as not to cause a voltage drop,... | |
| MAC Autoformers? I noticed I made a grammatical error in my last post that could mislead people. Autoformers increase the output impedance of the amp relative to direct-coupled designs, which leads to a LOWER damping factor. My apologies for being such a lousy edi... | |
| MAC Autoformers? McIntosh is simply making some different design decisions in using autoformers. Comparing an autoformer amp to a Krell, for example, one notices a distinct difference in how they're rated. The Krell tries, and usually succeeds, in having the abili... | |
| Mark Levinson 380 Call Levinson and ask them. They have always been very responsive for me. | |
| Which speakers have the biggest soundstage Linkwitz Labs Orion+. | |
| Is new better than old? New speakers are often better. The best, newest drivers are a LOT better than those from even ten years ago. Design software has come a long way too. The problem us audiophiles have is that for a lot of speaker manufacturers the design target has ... | |
| Amp recommendations for Revel Salon2 "I also have the Revel Ultima Salon2's. I have them bi-amped using Mark Levinson 532H amps. It is not necessary to bi-amp these."I agree, if you have a really beefy two-channel amp. I thought the ML334 was little lightweight for the Salon2 in my r... | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music I'm lost. Weseixas, who are you responding to? | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music "The simplest way for me to put it is that there's a presence to live instruments that is lacking in recorded music. "I don't agree with this statement as a rule, but I think there are four reasons why this is often true in most peoples' listening... | |
| Amp recommendations for Revel Salon2 I run a pair of ML 334s, in vertical bi-amp configuration.I have heard more than one solid state McIntosh amp, and they both sounded fine. I'm not a good one for hearing differences between high-end amps, perhaps because I don't believe there is m... | |
| Amp recommendations for Revel Salon2 I have Salon 2s too. All of your amp choices are of such high quality and so high power I'd bet you'd be hard-pressed to hear any differences. But if you want to be discerning anyway...For complex multi-driver systems like the Salon 2s I tend to p... | |
| i Have owed Krell FPB600 for about 7 years est. I would guess there won't be the slightest bit of difference. The FPB600 is as good as it gets. |