kijanki
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| Too terminate or not I replaced banana with spades on my multi individual strand cable. I bought Audioquest spades but standard crimper did poor job. I borrowed Audioquest crimper (almost identical) from the local Audio store and it worked perfect. After crimping I... | |
| Is a balanced XLR cable inherently less critical than a single ended RCA one? As long as source and the input are not ground related capacitance between wire and shield has no effect, but capacitance between wires still exists. Dielectric with lower dielectric constant will reduce capacitance between wires. Signal wires i... | |
| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters It correlates because spreading wires apart increases inductive reactance that is dominant factor here. The idea that 7m speaker cable is a transmission line for audio signals is insane, IMHO. For 20kHz signal you will need about 1000m long spea... | |
| Does it matter the wire gauge used in interconnects? @ozzy I should've explain better in my last paragraph, that gauge 18 would be even fine even for the speaker cable, while for ICs it doesn't make any difference. Gauge of IC wire should be thick enough for easy handling. That's perhaps why Acou... | |
| Does it matter the wire gauge used in interconnects? @ozzy AWG 20 sounds OK. My Acoustic Zen Absolute ICs have gauge 20 wires. I assume you're going to twist wires. XLR are usually twisted. Twisting exposes both wires evenly to external electric and magnetic fields reducing interference pickup ... | |
| The cost of LP's and CD's - an observation And I remember the price of a CD being raised to $18.99. I believe Tower records initiated this with the record labels. That’s when I stopped buying new discs.I buy used CDs on Amazon and rip them to HD. Ripping program can "renew" pretty much al... | |
| The cost of LP's and CD's - an observation One thing that should be considered is longevity. CDs backed-up on HD can last forever (can be restored), while LPs will develop over time more noise and pops (that I cannot tolerate). Of course one can make analog tape copy or digitize LP, but ... | |
| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters Rule of thumb says that cable becomes transmission line (reflections from impedance boundaries) when signal propagation one way is longer than 1/8 of the fastest transition time. When perfect square wave is applied all cables behave like transmis... | |
| Class D Technology +1 noble100, I was an enthusiast of class D amplification from the start. I replaced my (medium quality) class AB amp (Cambridge A3i) with one of the first class D amps (Rowland 102) based on the one of the cheapest Icepower modules (200ASC) and w... | |
| Excess speaker wire Coiling shouldn't have any effect, since it is cable and not a wire. Coiling single wire increases inductance, but coiling wire and return doesn't - because both wires in cable create canceling magnetic fluxes (opposite direction of the current).... | |
| Difference between 75 and 110 ohm digital cables? 75 or 110ohm is characteristic impedance of the cable. It should match output impedance of the transport and input impedance of the DAC. In audio most of the time single ended connection with RCA or BNC connector is specified at 75ohm while diff... | |
| The conclusion I've reached about speakers You have to remember that the same audiophiles that think they hear a difference in speakers are the same people that think they hear differences in cables. Audiophiles have very poor credentials when it comes to judging sound quality. Why not to... | |
| Power Conditioner I have Furman Elite 20PFI and like it very much. I bought it used for about $650. It has very tight non-sacrificial over/under voltage protection and I believe that it filters HF noise well. My previous amp had plain unregulated power supply an... | |
| The conclusion I've reached about speakers One man answered an add for the piano teacher."Sir, what are your credentials?""I don't have any. I don't know music and I don't play piano""Why, on earth, are you calling?""I'm calling to tell you that you should not count on me"That's exactly h... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection Charging pulse starts at the bottom of the ripple and ends at the peak of the waveform. When ripple is larger this time gets longer. When you comprehend this we can go forward.Amount of ripple depends on capacitance and load current and does not... |