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| Kill Top End Extension - All Silver Ribbon Cables What is a desirable impedance for speaker cables and what is desirable for interconnects are two different things. As such, using the same materials in the same geometry for both types of cabling can result in different problems in the circuit. Wh... | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Nothing to do with sonics, just music that i like to listen to. Best on vinyl, but then again, most things are : ) Sean> 1) Pink Flag by Wire. My favourite band and my favourite album. Relatively stripped down garage-core punk combined with a s... | |
| Kill Top End Extension - All Silver Ribbon Cables While most tubed amps already have GOBS of inductance on the output due to the matching transformer, how discernable the added inductance from the loudspeaker cabling will be has to do with the overall frequency response of the amp, the stability ... | |
| Kill Top End Extension - All Silver Ribbon Cables It wouldn't matter if the speaker cables were copper, silver, gold, platinum or unobtanium. It isn't the type of conductor so much as it is the geometry of the conductors. Given that most tubed amps are already lacking in high frequency extension,... | |
| Need feedback from Bryston amp owners Something is a bargain only if it does everything that you need or expect of the product at a drastically reduced price as compared to the competition. Obviously, this would be system and personal preference based, resulting in the value of any au... | |
| Kill Top End Extension - All Silver Ribbon Cables By increasing the spacing between the positive and negative runs of a speaker cable further apart from each other, you increase inductance. Inductance in a speaker cable kills treble response. If you want to keep the cabling that you have, try tak... | |
| Need feedback from Bryston amp owners Keneallyfan: There are NO tubed amps that "double down", at least as far as i know. As i mentioned, tubes operate very differently than SS amps. There really is no comparison in terms of power and current capacity, especially as impedances drop. B... | |
| Need feedback from Bryston amp owners If the 7B is rated at 500 wpc at both 8 & 4 ohms, that was the amp / Stereophile review that i was referencing. When i saw that spec, i laughed out loud and immediately thought that Bryston was a fan of SS Mac designs. As far as being dynamica... | |
| PS Audio Noise Harvester Electroid ( and others ): If you go back in the archives, you'll find that i make mention of this type of occurance more than a few times. This is why i've talked about using a VERY LARGE isolation transformer ( with tweaks ) to feed the entire sy... | |
| Need feedback from Bryston amp owners Adding to my last post, the lack of headroom and resultant momentary clipping could explain why some folks experience listening fatigue with Bryston's. That is, the non-linear high frequency distortion and smearing that result bother them enough t... | |
| Need feedback from Bryston amp owners Dynamically limited relates to the quantity and speed of power available during dynamic transients. In other words, i've found Bryston's to be lacking in "useable" dynamic headroom. The aforementioned Stereophile article notes this also, as the re... | |
| Need feedback from Bryston amp owners Bryston's don't like low impedances and are dynamically limited. I've said this for several years and Stereophile confirmed this in their last review of a very large Bryston amp. Sonically, i find them to be both unimpressive and uninvolving. If y... | |
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| Treating cable terminations in wet environment UncleJeff: Please let us know how this works out as your experiences here may help others with their projects in the future. Sean> | |
| Xover parts quality,/sound difference? JD: I wasn't suggesting that you ( or anyone else ) ask my ( or anyone else's )specific advice on anything. What i was suggesting was that if someone is going to make major changes within their system and / or modify a primary component within the... |