jafreeman
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| Greatest song titles.. "Take an old cold tater (and wait)" Amusing | |
| Van Alstine? Had I first noticed its age, I would not have commented on this thread, revived by one AVA fan, Audioman58. I wholly endorse your choice of AVA and am sure you will enjoy your AVA amps. Mine still work well for me after fourteen years. | |
| Do you demag or destat your CDs/DVDS? My thanks to Jea48 for supplying ample information on the Furutech RD. I notice there are no US or Canadian distributors of the Acoustic Revive RD 3, only overseas sales on Ebay that are not endorsed by Acoustic Revive. I could buy one from the de... | |
| Van Alstine? AVA amps have been OK, have owned Omega SS amp and EC pre, then Fet Valve Hybrid 350 and Fet Valve EC pre-amp, both circa 2000, still use these in home theater system. In his owner's literature, VA always insisted his team could hear no difference... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? The big cable manufacturers, mostly due to to price/performance disappointments. You can roll your own these days for a lot less. | |
| REL Magic I have placed the SR20's into my RELs. They are the same amperage rating as the stock fuses. I am doing some listening comparisons of music well-known to me, and so far, there may be a bit more depth--not sure yet--hard to quantify at this point. ... | |
| REL Magic Sabai, it's nice to hear that you found the same improvements through your REL, and I have Nmmusicman to thank for the fuse idea. I have the SR 20's on order. I have had very good results with Furutech fuses in Maggies. | |
| REL Magic Thanks for the reminder on the fuses, NMman--I will replace the stock fuses. | |
| You know you like it Lots of good memories with the Ozarks---still like 'em. | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? Al, thanks for your concise explanation of what may be occurring through pin #1. This is very enlightening to me and, I presume, to others. There is so much opinion batted around on DIY cable threads that only seems to confuse rather than clarify.... | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? In the interest of the thread, I should have stated my project goal--to exceed the performance of my Transparent Reference 1.5 meter XLR interconnects, purchased, about eight years ago for 4K. I have actually been fairly happy with these cables, b... | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? Amazing, Jade--kind of mind-blowing, actually. That you are mixing gauges in the #2 and #3 pins tells me the addition of a 28-gauge there has probably added something beyond three 30 gauge wires you have previously mentioned along the way. Seems t... | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? Thanks to all--opinions vary according to experience with the different metals. There is a lot of testimony in favor of copper and silver--understandably, especially with copper, due to its low cost and nearly universal application as the metal of... | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? Ivan, very interesting about introducing micro fissures by too much bending of OCC wire. Could pure gold be beyond grain boundaries in its cohesive malleability? Gold can be rolled out to a nearly transparent film--this has to be a good sign in th... | |
| Building balanced interconnects--ideas What type of shield material do your suggest? I want to avoid metal of any type, which would mean nothing soldered to pin 1. I hear you saying not to run a dedicated ground wire between pin 1, but to solder a shield to pin 1. If I don't want any m... |