mitch2
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| How important are spikes? Many solutions can work well for equipment support, isolation, damping, and other audiophile purposes. Just because a manufacturer shines it up, packages it, and sells it for a lot of money doesn't make it inherently better. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? The balanced line standard often comes up here when discussing XLR cables. Here is the standard and here is an article by Rane that provides additional context. Also, see Chapter 3 of this article by Bill Whitlock, of Jensen Transformers, Inc. o... | |
| How important are spikes? Interesting thread in that you first asked the question almost three years ago and based on your post today it seems you maybe tried some stuff and came to your own conclusions since first posting. Related to your comment about "cushions under th... | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? I would like some recommendations on reasonably priced XLR cables that give excellent sonic performance. Start with reasonably priced XLR cables, Mogami Gold from Amazon, or maybe Blue Jeans Cables that use either Belden or Canare wire and then... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Vanessa Fernandez | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I have tried a variety of gear over the years and have mostly kept the stuff that I enjoy listening to. My predominate criteria have been tone and dynamics, and I have been fortunate to acquire gear that is also quiet, smooth, and generally accur... | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER @lanx0003 Although the average output impedance (OI) is rated at 300 and 600 ohms for SE and XLR line outputs, JA (Sterophile) pointed out that both SE and XLR OI can rise to 3150 and 3900 ohms at 20Hz. This necessitates an amplifier with at le... | |
| Mains Power Cable DIY @smaarch1 What is PC Triple C Ok, since you asked: Japanese PC Triple C copper is made in Japan’s Furukawa plant and is the next-generation version of the Japanese Ohno (Continuous Crystal) copper (a.k.a., Ohno continuous Cast Copper - OCC). F... | |
| Cable management....crossing at right angles or Use shielded cables, keep them away from each other as much as possible, cross them at or close to right angles when you can, and then don’t worry any more about it unless you have a specific noise issue. If you feel better lifting them off the f... | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER @ghdprentice You put together a system without one and you don’t know what you are missing. And this missing stuff is often the most important stuff… Very true, both wrt to preamps and with other stuff too. In my case it was dual subs, which... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Clapton - The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions | |
| One key to building great systems over time. A swing and a miss...its going to happen. If something doesn't work for you, get out fast and move on. However, if it does work, recognize that and take the win. Perfection is the enemy of progress -WC. Before I was able to spend more on my sy... | |
| Full range stand mounted speakers The A/D/S L810s that I owned for 20 years used a perforated metal grill. They looked and sounded great and I still use two pair of their smaller model speakers (also with perforated metal grills) in ancillary systems. Mine looked exactly like th... | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? I don’t now why the normal rules wouldn’t apply - passives work best being fed a low input impedance signal (<200’ish ohms) then output to a high impedance amplifier input (>50K ohms) and being positioned so the output IC only needs to trave... | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? @pioneerhip In a different thread you asked about Hattor's Tube Active Stage and I said I would answer here in this current thread. I have cut/pasted and slightly edited portions of a couple of my previous posts that I believe will answer your ... |