mprime
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| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? Herman,The reason I take this approach is that the souce component will drive the interconnect and it's target load. Thus, the voltage drop you say we are concerned amount is impacted by the IR drop across the IC. This isn't anymore complicated th... | |
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? Well, Sean (welcome back), that's my point:1) Why is carbon in the signal path?2) Given that carbon is ~30db poorer in conducting the signal: are we not hearing differences in the the conductor geometry and dielectric loading of the cable? (which ... | |
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? Oxia,Carbon's RF transparency is directly related to it's conductivity!Rock,My understanding of carbon in spark plugs is that it is used *because* a spark gap is and extreme situation. An interconnect, however....Herman,Now my physics gets a littl... | |
| Dire Straits Remasters Rx8man,I'm learning as you are! So far there is the standard issue CD, a remastered version (with Japanese & UK offerings in addition to the US one), and an XRCD version. That's five. Yikes. Seems there's great depth to a simple question. As a... | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood The drivers for audiophile in HW film is as follows:1) Does the screenwriter deem it an integral part of a character's profile? If so, show it. If not, it's irrelevant, expensive, and a waste of space.2) Does the production designer deem it an int... | |
| Dire Straits Remasters Fatparrot, Hifi, & Mejames, great info. Thanks! | |
| Linn Ikemi still viable at 4k The key issue with the Ikemi is vibration management: its chassis is woefully underdesigned. I cannot emphasise this enough and cite Ben's response as supporting evidence (the deteriation of playback quality with "heavier music").However, if you a... | |
| Have you tried any room treatments? Yes.There were two stages to my room treatment. First, I strove to kill direct reflections behind the speakers. While I tried only treating the spectral points (i.e. the mirror reflection method), I found the more acoustic foam I used on the backi... | |
| Recommendations for "pure class a" amp under 1K Forte 4a can be had for ~ $500.When they show up.Best, | |
| Recording Limited? Metra: thanks for the Steve Hoffman recomendation.Rock: thanks for the advice.Nighthawk: you're correct, I am missing the bottom octave. Typically, I say I don't miss it, but that's not entirely true, for when I listen to Ma or Mingus, there is a ... | |
| Recording Limited? No criticism taken, Lug. Really, when I ponder vinyl, I see it as ideal for Classical & Jazz - particularly the latter (if I'm going to listen to mono or a hard R/L stereo mix, then I want that sucka to be smooooth).And you bring up an interes... | |
| Tube pre for Forte 4a A follow up for Sean.I could not be happier.Please keep in mind I am using the amp with RCA inputs; that increases the input impedance to 47k (as you know) which - if I understand properly - more than clears the 10:1 "rule" (the DJH is 600 ohms). ... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Interesting, Tommy.I must say this site (have never run across it before) appears to have an axe to grind. For example, they slam the Goertz speaker cables for introducing a large phase shift; the problem is it's out of the audio band and therefor... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Sean,It would be nice is to understand the objective characteristics which lead to these subjective differences we hear with interconnects, as opposed to speaker cables. It seams to me (this is offered as a straw-man) that interconnects are suppos... | |
| Tube pre for Forte 4a Quick update.Purchased an Audio Electronics AE-3 DJH. All of a day old and enjoying the 'new' sound. Will take a while to break-in and unfold, at which time I'll update my system page.This has been a major shift in my system (going from a Majik in... |