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| best interconnect at decent price Consider that Western Electric was AT&T’s sole source for cables, and that we were able to hear folks quite well from coast to coast over W.E. cables designed by electrical engineers who could actually do math. Duelund cables are a slight impr... | |
| best interconnect at decent price I wholeheartedly agree with the last 2 posters. If you are unable to solder Grannyring’s Duelunds, or if you for some reason don’t want to go there, several people are selling Duelund cables on eBay, don’t know Grannyring’s prices, but the eBay pr... | |
| Your Forever Pieces? What and Why? Let’s see, I have had a Threshold Stasis S2 for probably less than 20 years, a PS Audio 200C for longer, an Audio Research LS15 for a decade or so, a Coda 05R about the same. Various Sony ES CD players and DVD players. All of it has been highly mo... | |
| Magico A3 vs. Joseph Audio Perspective vs. Spendor D9 Were I you, and if you have a passport, I'd contact Don Sachs in Nelson BC. You won't believe how good his speakers sound until you hear them. When I say his, he doesn't sell them, he just bought/uses them. You can probably blow your eardrums out ... | |
| best interconnect at decent price If you can solder make yourself interconnects from Duelund wire, Partsconnexion carrys it. Since you have inefficient speakers, Duelund is a slightly improved version of Western Electric cables, but they only go to 12 gage, you could use it, or go... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible I've said all along that it is likely an equipment issue. I had a similar issue with my DAC, and cleared it up with a reasonably priced hospital grade isolation transformer, that and Deulund cables, which are just good neutral cables, should be un... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible Nonoise, "I have about half a dozen speaker cables and every one of them sounds different. It’s just the nature of cables. A designer is going for what he/she thinks sounds best or can sound best for a variety of different systems."True, that's wh... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible d2girls, IME, usually it's an equipment issue, but I concurr 100% about cables not being an answer. At best they are a bandaid. | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible Geoffkait, good point. That's another reason I like Goertz speaker cables. Square wave response is a solid indicator of a component's ability to deal with transients, quick sharp sounds, such as cymbals. Western Electric cables and Goertz speaker ... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible d2girls, cable has inductance, capacitance, and resistance. These are the 3 qualities used in electrical filters, it's what speaker crossovers use to separate frequencies, so unfortunately cables are very capable of distorting sound. That's why I ... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible I certainly agree about Cardas, I tried that for my DAC before switching over to the isolation transformer. It was an improvement, but it was a bandaid not a fix. | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible Look, I have spent a ton of money on cables, so let me explain something. If you find a boutique brand of cable that sounds better than Western Electric/Delund, or Goertz (Goertz for speakers only), you are masking other issues. Goertz, if you don... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible I think that you have 3 good choices. 1. Delund's Western Electric style cable. 2. Western Electric cable, there are lots of fakes now, this is a good source for the real thing;https://www.m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?sid=tajacobs&isRefine=true&_... | |
| PS Audio 200C X vs. 200Delta? I don't know if you guys are being updated on this thread, but if you replace the bridge rectifiers with IXYS Fred's your amps will actually sound a good deal better. You can look around the web, one guy found a replacement for the relay that does... | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? It depends upon how tight you want them matched I suppose, and if you want to set up a test bed for them, etc. I just have better things to do. I have a pile of gear to troubleshoot and repair as it is... |