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| best artists in the last 15 years Mybe not "the greatest", but try out the Norwegian world-music artist Øystein Sevåg. Beautiful, relaxed music, great sound, kind of modern classic. The album "Visual" with the Finish guitarplayer Lakki Patey is my favorite. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? My -64 Ford Fairlane dayly driver did get a new set of Hooker-headers (tube exh. manifoils)last week, and after some tweaking and some new cables (spark-plug) it runs like a scared dog. Watch out plastic cars! | |
| Kimber 8TC or NBS King/Serpent speaker cables Kimber 4 or 8TC are like London smog if you ask me. And so you should ;) | |
| "Budget" cable advice, please DIY. Min.12-13 awg solid core speakercables, biwire if possible. 9-10 or thicker gives real bass-power! The copper sounds dull the first hour(s), but opens vup and dissapears. Powercables in min.12-13agw solid also outperforms anything else. | |
| Words From the Wise As a newbe I save4d a lot of frustration by "using" some hifi-veterans wellbalanced systems as a referance. Every uppgrade was matched up against some veterans more expensive components, and if my choice did a good appearance I knew I was on the r... | |
| How do you explain slow/lazy sound? This is primarely about the equipments powercircuits ability to "breathe". Powercircuit starts with powercords and ends in speakers voicecoils. Can`t be overrated! The problem has two sides; speakers and amps. First we have amps with tiny underdim... | |
| Attn: Speaker DIY expert A resistor-tip: to make a good free-flowing resistor you can use lets say 4x32ohm in paralell to gert 8ohm aso. This reduces filter-resistance, the main reason for dynamic loss in passiove filters. Allmost any cheap resistor will do. Components in... | |
| silver with tubes and copper with solid state ?? First; speakercables needs to be elaively thick and massive. 12-13awg is a good start,suitable for tweeters & smaller midrngs. In my system I`ve ended up using 4x9awg (x2) for the woofers, 2x9awg for the 6,5" mids aso. Remember; speakercables ... | |
| Kimber 8TC or NBS King/Serpent speaker cables If you want your Krell to comunicate with your speakers, make up some solidcore copper (min. 12-13 awg) and give them some massage to open up. biwire if posible. | |
| 20amp cord DIY solid core min 13awg pc`s direct in-wall. If then your equipment had solid in-box powercables too.. | |
| Best DIY tweak? DIY solid core powercables, 12-13awg. Mine is shielded too. Cleanest and most powerful current you can get. If you nedd any extension-cable make it solid too. Big powergain! Replace the in-box powercable from rear wall to off/on-switch and back t... | |
| How much money on speaker cable? Tip from a pro: DIY. Speakercables must be seen as a part of the amps powercircuit and should be kept short, thick and solid. Just be aware that solid copper needs some beating to open up. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I`ve done a test like Osgorth did, and with optical AT&T as a reference.(A-B-C test) First; optical outplayed any "high-end" (high price) coax, actually no match. Even if we could observe some minor differences between the coaxes, they was tot... | |
| Stranded vs singal core conductors and skin effect Cables are pure simple physics, no big deal. Thick solid are the optimal solution, but every other configuration also gives a signal, it just ain`t that pure and powerful anylonger. | |
| Stranded vs singal core conductors and skin effect There`s a lot of legends around this theme. One is that thicker cores gives skin-effect, that`s just a farytale as long as we talk about audio frequenses. In princip there should be no multicore anywhere in a system if you want the ultimate. Not o... |