lcherepkai
Responses from lcherepkai
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? My first "audiophile" power cords were Kimber Kords, the early ones with the plastic sheathing. These were a minimal step up from the stock cords but, of course, my system was FAR less revealing then so it's hard to tell just what they did to the... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please tksteingraber: so, to use the SFB, you need an extra power cord? Do you think this could be causing the slight reduction in fidelity or the box itself? Will you be trying the rhodium sluggo when available? With the holiday causing a back up i... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please tksteingraber: I biamp my speakers as well but haven't installed a slug in the bass amp (D-Sonic) as I've had it go into protection mode a few times without really being pushed so not sure what's going on but don't want to take a chance. What ar... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please lemonhaze: Did you try any other slugs than the copper? In my experience, copper is, by far, the least impressive. The silver was quite an improvement in pretty much every way I find important, and titanium was quite a bit ahead of the silver i... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please larryi: I'm not much of a DIYer but I think you have a good idea. May I send you a slug of a TBD material and you can try this for yourself? I would be quite interested in your findings | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please tweak1: contact Golden State Silver and they will cut them to length for you. I actually told them I might be steering some business their way for this purpose. They sell on ebay and had a listing just for 2 of the slug precut and it was less t... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please tksteingraber: I'm delighted to hear that! Yeah, for me, the silver has been a very large improvement over the copper slugs and they actually sound kinda warm in my system. Maybe that's just compared to the titaniums although I wouldn't call th... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please I just placed an order for both tungsten and molybdenum rod of 99.95% purity. I should be getting those late next week and then probably will have them cut to size by the first of the following week. Hopefully, I can have a reasonably thorough r... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please I'm really not fond of the copper slugs at all. I thought them an improvement over the stock fuses but it's the silver and surprisingly, titanium slugs that really transformed my system. A quick story about this: my amp is a Red Dragon S-500. ... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please And for all the others, once again just NEEDING to tell me how incredibly stupid I am for bypassing the fuses to use slugs, let me ask you this, which do you think is more dangerous and likely to actually cause harm; listening to my stereo withou... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please Thank you carlsbad2 and tksteingraber for not being alarmists. I purchased the titanium rod when I bought my copper rod from McMaster-Carr, both for under $20 shipped and only another $30 for the machine shop to cut them down to 20mm lengths. T... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please Hey Jerry. Did you try out those titanium slugs I sent you yet? I'm talking with a manufacturer now about getting tungsten stock. I'm trying to not have to purchase a whole foot of it though. Thanks | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please mikelavigne: that sounds incredible!! I'd love to be able to do such but, as a renter, that's out of the question and probably nothing I could afford either. One of the great things about experimenting with slugs is the relatively low cost. I ... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please erik_squired: no, that was rude of me and that is not my intention. But I did request these kinds of comments not be included. We all know that this can be dangerous, bypassing the component fuses, and, as adults, we will make our own decisions... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please larryi---your suggestion does make the most sense, but I am having fun hearing the differences in the sounds the slugs produce. Honestly, I'm shocked at how much detail and how precisely in space titanium places individual sounds. There can be a... |