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| gold interconnects and speaker cables What's the motivation in using gold? It's not a great conductor compared to silver and copper.BTW most gold comes in alloy form. Pure (i.e. 24 karat) gold is extremely soft. | |
| Turntable cables . . . possible upgrade? Of course it's possible... Even if the wires are soldered inside the chassis, you should be able to open it up and replace them.From your description, the stock cables are basic mini-coax type, which is very common with vintage equipment from Japa... | |
| Is it Ok for RCA barells l&r touch each other In most cases the barrels are connected to the circuit ground and it would be OK for them to touch. In some cases they are insulated and connecting the barrels electrically may degrade the sound or cause an electrical issue.It should be easy to te... | |
| Twin Lead Shielded Just used plain coax of any type - RG58, RG-59, RG-6 or even a thin RG-174. The improvement vs. the internal antenna is so much that a little loss means nothing. If you're very picky, then you can add a BALUN between the antenna and the coax.Just ... | |
| Interconnect with RCA and XLR connectors feasible? Of course it's feasible and you'll find such products offered by many manufacturers, including myself. For a pseudo-balanced connection like this, make sure that the core of the cable is the same as a standard RCA cable - not balanced!There is a p... | |
| how do cable variables contribute to cable sound Edison knew roughly what it takes to make a light bulb, yet it took him over a thousand experiments to come up with a decent one.That's called engineering. | |
| IC's that is warm and enchance the bass This is a question you should post on Head-Fi.The K-1000 are very poor in bass reproduction, so don't expect miracles in that regard. They have a wonderful sound otherwise.If you have the el-cheapo T-amp with the wall-wart "supply" then you cannot... | |
| sivler interconnect There are too many variables in cable design and your system, that will affect the sound notcieably, so any general statements about silver or copper would be deemed worthless...Please describe your components (including current cabling) and what ... | |
| Toslink vs. Digital Coax for Long Run For short runs, I find that coax is consistently superior to Toslink. If you use a decent coax (such as RG-59/Foam or equivalent), then line losses are insignificant for digital signals.There are two issues: (1) impedance matching, which you can v... | |
| Transsexual, Androgynous and Hybrid interconnects Given that the crossover accepts RCA only, your best choice is XLR-to-RCA cable. This is the purist approach, which does not add any "processing" to the audio signal, be it an active converter or a passive transformer.Be sure to terminate the unus... | |
| Low capacitance IC?? Capacitance is not an issue in this particular setup with 0.5 meter cables. | |
| Is balanced necessarily better? Eldartford... "Twice the signal and twice the noise" is not a correct description of a balanced differential input circuit. Noise adds up when uncorrelated, but the circuit will reject supply noise and RF pickup better than the single-ended circui... | |
| Is balanced necessarily better? It all depends on the circuits on both ends and the quality of interconnects. Many assume that balanced interconnects bearing a certain "name" will perform the same or better than their single-ended counterparts from the same manufacturer and bear... | |
| Problems with interconnects It could be the components, it could be that your installation has much worse electrical noise than what you heard before.If the cables are shielded then try them in both directions, even if it's against the "recommended" direction. You might just... | |
| Need to turn volumn up to break in speaker cable? Higher voltage and current through the cables would accelerate the break-in, so the basic answer is yes, to an extent. So, what do you do about the noise?You can connect BIG power resistors instead of speakers. They will get very hot if you're run... |