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| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? Jerry---will be trying titanium and niobium for sure, probably molybdenum too if neither of those are the sound I'm looking for as the moly adds a bit of body without losing too much detail. It is less precise however, so hopefully won't need to ... | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? Thanks for all the responses. It's good to have a wealth of knowledge to draw upon but let me clarify this, I'm not doing this in an effort to save money. I want to hear what titanium, molybdenum, and niobium offer as speaker cables. As slugs, ... | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? Ozzy---the largest diameter niobium wire I found is 14 gauge. I was planning on getting runs twice the length I need and wrapping the amp binding post with the mid-point and then running both ends out to the speakers. I don't want to use separat... | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? Jerry--won't be using the experimental metals on the bass drivers so hopefully not an issue there. Would doubling up the doubled-up 14awg wire to a total of 8awg significantly lower the resistance? At $26/m for the niobium, that's still much che... | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? If you've read my recent posts on using slugs instead of fuses, then you may recall that I've been experimenting with metals less used in audio applications. To this end, I'm considering trying molybdenum, titanium, and niobium wire. The latter ... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please Will do although I have a lot of stuff, mostly that which I don't want to mess with, coming up so that will likely be a project in the unknown future. Please post any more experiences you have a well and thanks! | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please steakster: I picked up the titanium rod from McMaster-Carr. You can probably find purer rod elsewhere and make sure you get the 99% titanium as there are many alloys out there, that is unless you get something like the platinum or palladium allo... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please steakster: Welcome to the sluggos club! Yeah, it's kinda mind-blowing just how much of an improvement is wrought by subbing a solid slug in place of a fuse. And the variation in sound from the different metals is much more than I would have ant... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please tksteingraber: I've been meaning to do a write-up on all the slugs I have on hand but just haven't had the time or energy to really get into it yet. At the moment, I have copper, silver, titanium, tungsten, and molybdenum. I recently found that... | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging hickamore: check hifishark. There's a pair for $2500 now and, if you look under SOLD section, you'll see a good deal many have sold in the $2000 range or less, and I've bought many pairs of older speakers without crossover issues. I'm sure it's... | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging You might find a pair of Legacy Focus in that price range. I have a pair of DIY speakers of a similar size and design and they filled a 24' x 28' room spectacularly. They are also quite efficient so you could bi-amp with tubes on top if that's y... | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used I had the AZ MC2 and it was a completely adequate digital cable, but I tried a Neotech NEVD 2001 so I could use BNC at the transport end and found it bettered the AZ in just about every way by a slim but noticeable margin. Of course, the Neotech ... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please rx8man: This sounds very promising. How does it compare to the titanium on inner detail and image placement? And did you try pure silver? I'm supposed to be getting the tungsten and molybdenum slugs tomorrow. I'm going to end up with a nice b... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? bigtwin: you're absolutely right. It made perfect sense to me at 2am last night but that would be with a signal passing cable and that's not what was being discussed. Mea Culpa! | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? from tennisdoc56: By what method/electrical theory does a power cord improve the contractor grade romex in your walls? Please avoid explanations in biology such as sees, senses, feels, prefers. Not being sarcastic I googled the following... |