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| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Paperw8 - according to mentioned skin depth calculator 20 mils corresponds to gage 18. Skin effect is therefore not existent in interconnects but might with speaker cables. Using thick wire lowers resistance but also inductance. The same happens w... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? "You are correct about skin effect. Skin effect is a phenomenon that you tend to see at microwave frequencies."This is incorrect. At microwave frequencies skin depth is in order of um. At audio frequency of 20kHz largest copper wire that has still... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Mjordans - I was talking about general opinion on the forums and in reviews. In AVGuide review: http://www.avguide.com/review/nordost-tyr-cable I found this statement:"That Nordost have evolved a distinctive house sound is indisputable. Fast, cris... | |
| New Apple iTunes 10 Features Ballan - Thanks. As for the grouping of the albums I found out that setting smart playlists displays all album "tiles" on one screen. I set smart playlists with only genre condition. For instance my playlist "- Jazz" has condition that genre is eq... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Mcelio - AFAIK Nordost cables offer specific "house sound". Let just say that if you're looking to add warmth to the sound or suppress sibilance Nordost isn't the one. On the opposite side is Cardas that is warm sounding but does not have transpar... | |
| New Apple iTunes 10 Features Ballan - I wonder if Front Row works now with AE. It used to work in Tiger but Apple disabled it in Leopard. Many people complained about it. | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? Irvrobinson - I can make argument as well, that if you want to believe that top cables don't sound any better than cheap lamp cord - they won't (negative placebo effect).Long time ago when I had thick stranded Monster speaker cable and amp with to... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? "Why is "strand jumping" bad?"Strand jumping is related to skin effect that forces current to jump constantly to outside of thick speaker cable (where resistance is lower at higher frequencies). Copper impurities reside on the surface of each stra... | |
| Music server/Windows Media Center PC--possible? Windows is OK (bit transparent) as long as you set Quick Time properties (sample rate and # of bits) the same way as Itunes. Read here: http://www.designwsound.com/dwsblog/?p=1718 | |
| Airport Express "local clock" issue? Magfan - You can get null-modem adapter (that crosses receive and transmit lines). It is something in communication between AE and DAC. When I set my AE to the the same frequency/channel as microwave oven sound disappears after few seconds and com... | |
| Transport rips to hard drive? If computer can read data CDs it should be able to read music CDs. There are programs that read music CD as data. They force transport to read given sector many times if necessary, to obtain correct checksum.CDP uses Cross Interleaved Reed Solomon... | |
| Mid-Fi ICs - BJC vs. Audioquest Sidewinder "low frequency signals that tend to flow through the center of a conductor travel through copper, rather than silver."Low frequency signals do not "tend" to travel thru the center of the wire. They travel equally on the inside and outside. | |
| Airport Express "local clock" issue? Magfan - Airfoil is to send sound from any application (or system) to AE. Without it AE only works with Itunes. AE worked with "Front Row" with previous OS but Apple disabled it in Leopard. A lot of people wrote to them about it but they are unres... | |
| Interesting priorities Elevick - I should check again. My agent could be mistaken (broker) while rules change all the time. | |
| Interesting priorities Elevic - I asked my insurance agent if my gear will be covered or I need special provision/rider. He said that audio is covered no matter how expensive. There isn't even a way to enter it (extra provision) into computer. How do we know that gear t... |