stevemj
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| How much money do you want to waste? The finest drivers typically use aluminum wire in their voice coils. This wire is small and there is a lot of it. Wire used in the voice coil is solid and sometimes rectangular to pack the most volumn into the available space. The voice coil is in... | |
| Need speaker cable recommendations ... High end speaker manufacturers have used aluminum wire in their finest drivers for many years. The wire on the voice coils is small and there is a lot of it. Since the cheapest copper is far better than aluminum size for size, I suggest you get so... | |
| Break in period for power conditioners ? I have found a dramatic difference using free-range chicken blood, but only if it is broken in first. I break the blood in on my RS beater gear. Golden Divine Supernatural Translucent XTC provides audio quality chicken blood. You can also order a ... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Most people would like to believe in magic, to have super natural powers. Imagine the satisfaction of being able to hear things so subtle that they are even beyond the tremendous power of todays equipment to measure. You too can experience this th... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? J.D. - Your logic about the development of audio is odd. If I understand what you are saying, electronics and acoustics did not exist before advances in audio were made. Theil and Small, for example, made their contributions before the existence o... | |
| How to get rid of transformer hum? Geeez, Tommy, it just doesn't make sense that they are humming at only 120 volts. If it weren't for the fact that both are doing the same thing I would think it was something mechanical. I don't know much about the audiophile line conditioners. I ... | |
| How to get rid of transformer hum? Cleaning up the sine wave certainly won't hurt anything, but oddly enough it may not help. Magnetostriction is related to volt/seconds. The transformer stores up energy during each half cycle. If you begin to push the storage capacity to its limit... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" It is easier to understand line cord differences if you think of them as religious articles. You cannot mass produce a religous item and expect it to have any power. It has to be hand made and of only the highest quality materials. | |
| How to get rid of transformer hum? Well, I think the transformers are either mismanufactured or poorly designed. When you design a transformer you make a deal with the devil. If you use lots of turns the transformer will be quiet, but the large number of turns means smaller longer ... | |
| How to get rid of transformer hum? The mechanical hum you are talking about could be from a few causes. Magnetostriction causes the transformer laminations to actually change size as the voltage changes. This effect is greatest at high voltages and is independent of the power the a... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Rgd - OK, I've just never heard the terms transmit and return used for speaker wire. Since the signal is AC each wire performs exactly the same function. | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Rgd - Could you explain the "return" and "transmit" part of your post? I don't understand. | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" I just don't understand why "believers" are not willing to give some credit to the placebo effect. Here's a little story. I went to the CES show in Anahiem some years ago. The rep for a new line of speakers that had just come out lived there. He w... | |
| Granite Audio Power cord 555 When I was in the audio equipment manufacturing business our rule of thumb for the retail price was five times the cost of parts. We got about 60% and the dealer got the other 40% of the retail price. We had hundreds of parts in the bill of materi... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? Frap and Dekay - The system distortion has to have something to do with the ability to hear the contribution of line cord doesn't it? I mean, if you put a killer line cord on a boom box, would that gain you something? Maybe I have it upside down. ... |