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| Quietest 500GB Firewire drive? Why bother with building external disk when you can get Firewire Neptune 500GB for $114 with high quality (braid shield) Firewire cable included and 2 year warranty for the whole thing. Similar 1TB Firewire Neptune is $159 now with the cable (afte... | |
| Quietest 500GB Firewire drive? I use very quiet NEPTUNE 500GB Firewire from OWC. | |
| Biwire cable on a standard 2 terminal speaker? Kal - you're right, they sell shotguns. It is in their price list but I missed it. Audioquest, having already complex construction and spread spectrum, decided against specific optimization. My Acoustic Zen had them optimized but I don't know how.... | |
| Biwire cable on a standard 2 terminal speaker? Kal - I was talking about biwired Audioquest Indigo. It has three pairs for low/mid and one for tweeter. Total of 8 wires in the cable (different gauge).As for shotgun - my Satori has cables optimized and factory marked for low/mid and hi. I don't... | |
| slew rate and rise time Chris - slew rate is a slope of the signal going up or down expressed in V/us (rate of change). Rise time is only for known amount of volts going up (fall time for going down).We use slew rate when voltage doesn't have any particular range of inte... | |
| Biwire cable on a standard 2 terminal speaker? Often HF and LF portions of the cable are different. One is optimized for the lower frequencies with thicker wires while the other keeps gauge above 18 to prevent skin effect. Combining different wires is beneficial - Audioquest does this inside o... | |
| Do speaker cables really matter? Shadorne - I read the article. It is strange that he describes cable as DC component while impedance of typical cable is few times higher than resistance at few kHz. I also disagree a little with his skin effect assestment (no skin effect in audio... | |
| dh labs Q10 vs ps audio xstream plus or ??? I don't know ps audio xstream but own satori shotgun, read reviews of oval 9 and bought as a gift for my brother biwired Q10. It is difficult to compare because they represent different classes (and prices):1. Satori - best. A little fuller lower ... | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Chris - I don't know about cycles but heat cuts down life of caps by two every 10 degree Celsius (18 deg F). It might be irrelevant for many people if amplifier lasts 20 or 40 years. | |
| The best CD Player for the money Magfan - I don't know how they could pass 20kHz with -3dB and 21kHz with -96dB using linear phase filters (Bessel) to avoid problems in passband. Bessel filters have poor rejection at up to 2x -3dB frequency no matter how many poles. Brick-wall fi... | |
| Sennheiser HD 650's thin sounding? 580 is way better than 570. It is pretty much the same thing as HD-600 with the same drivers. HD-600 is tuned a little bit better (position of the drivers).HD650s deliver more bass than HD580 but needs 250-500hrs break-in time according to one rev... | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Drubin - very often used CDs sold by Amazon parties are brand new sometimes with hole punched thru paper booklet or backcover - sometimes even thru plastic of the box (can anybody explain why?). I got that way brand new CDs for a fraction of a pri... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. Musicnoise - This is just hypothesis and changes are so miniscule that it's difficult to make sense of it. My speakers show slightly more air in the sound when bi-wired but now I'm not so sure if I made right decision buying shotgun cable. It cost... | |
| Legal & Ethical Questions in the PC Audio Age Scott - Even if only one person reads book from library it lowers the sales - without libraries people would buy more books. Frank explained to me that library has permission and pays fee to do it. People who rent books from library often engage i... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. Not every HF circuit has resistor in series - it depend on speaker design (many have L-PAD). I didn't say that impedance of the cable is comparable to speaker's impedance - it is in order of 50-100x lower. What I'm saying is that it might be still... |