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| 8 Ohm Speakers These rules are all just fine "all other things being equal" like with all theories. I came across a pair of valve amps made in Korea some years ago. The only tap on them was 8ohm. I tried them on both my sets of speakers at the time - both 4ohm f... | |
| Best acoustical guitar - any type music I have just one to add - Joe Pass "I Remember Charlie Parker" on Pablo. | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Well blow the feathers off m'Kiwi and call it a Wallaby! Listening to the system the last fewdays has been like watching a new flower open up to the sunshine. There have been times when I have been close to ditching these cables and going back to ... | |
| Cables that cost more than the speakers? It sure as eggs defies logic, but go try a set of cables that add up to the total cost of your whole system or more, and have a listen. I'm not going to advocate spending half your budget on cables, but till you've heard it you won't realise how v... | |
| Redwiki - About racks, shelves... You're very welcome cobber. | |
| Cables that cost more than the speakers? Metaphysics, I too found that particular issue of Absolute Sound very bizarre. Then I realised my speaker cables cost mearly as much as my speakers too, the difference being I bought the cables on eBay for 10% of what I paid for the speakers. And ... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? I find myself in general agreement Mmccoy. There are indeed diminishing returns beyond the competent cables such as Synergistic Research AC Master Coupler etc. But there are also different flavours of sound to be had. And these reasonably priced c... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? Hi Frap. Thanks for the help - I hope Mmccoy realises we are trying to help, not beat him into submission. Good PCs on electrostatic speakers do indeed have a significant effect, in my repeated experience. The standard cords sound as if detail has... | |
| Redwiki - About racks, shelves... Gregm. Because neither the Corian or Perspex are totally neutral, you may get the best result using Corian on the source (and maybe also preamp) and perhaps Perspex on amp. Mixing different shelf materials together will hopefully avoid any too obv... | |
| Dielectric? Hi Bmpnyc, I agree this thread is most interesting and hope it continues. | |
| How can power cords make a difference? Mmccoy. I cannot help thinking you are falling into a trap that many or perhaps all of us have fallen into from time to time, and that some here seem to be utterly captured by. It is important in any endeavour like ours to have some basis for gues... | |
| Redwiki - About racks, shelves... Gregm, I have tried the suspemded shelf idea and found it promising but eventually abandoned it. My main concern was that the wire used has a resonance like a guitar string and gets through to the shelf unless you do something to decouple it. Nylo... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? I will try to help you Fpeel, but have no more real understanding than you of what is going on. Mmccoy, the scepticism in your question seems to spring from an assumption that the only purpose of a power cord is to transfer volts and current from ... | |
| Redwiki - About racks, shelves... Gregm. I have tried all materials known to man (ask my wife how many shelves lurk in the basement), so can report on Perspex. The best thickness seems to be around 12mm. It is really too heavy in my opinion and not damped sufficiently in the lower... | |
| Redwiki - About racks, shelves... Hi Rushton. They look beautifully made but perhaps kinda heavy to me, but hard to tell from a picture. But any weight in them will pay off in extra rigidity since it is all welded steel, so I have no reason to doubt they would do the job well, par... |