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| Where can I find 1/4 20 speaker spikes??? I looked all over for 1/4-20 spikes as an upgrade to the long, skinny ones that come with Skylan stands. Stumbled onto ones offered by Tekton which are exactly what I was looking for at a very reasonable price of $20 for a set of 8 plus $5 shippin... | |
| Bi-Wire with two pairs of speaker cables "....If the plating or base metal was poor, there could very significant sonic effects....." leales.Do you think that the designer/manufacturer of high-quality loudspeakers would knowingly use something that degrades the sound? Poor plating or ... | |
| Bi-Wire with two pairs of speaker cables "....I have tried this, but to my ears the only thing that improved the sound was replacing the little mettal strip-jumpers (those generally supplied with bi-wire speaker terminalss) with a quality jumper made from wire...."williewonka,Is there a... | |
| Best home remedy for paper cone woofers cleaning the dust off? Another vote for Swiffer dusters. | |
| Night and day speaker connection audiosens,The improvement you heard by paralleling (aka, "shotgunning") the two speaker cables and jumpering at the speaker posts would indicate that the wire gauge used in your original biwire configuration was not adequate. There might be a slig... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance atdavid438 posts11-20-2019 1:00pm"For the same reason an RC-snubber across a diode or FET is not a Zobel network ...."They both have a resistor in series with a capacitor. To me, that makes them the same except for the name. I guess we'll have t... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance atdavid,How is the series R-C network (Zobel) that is used to provide a constant impedance different from the series R-C circuit used by Polk to dampen power amp oscillations? To me, they serve a dual purpose.I thought you might find this excerp... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance twoleftears1,947 posts11-20-2019 10:36am"Any way you slice it, Noel Lee has a lot to answer for."What exactly should Noel Lee answer for? | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance atdavid432 posts11-20-2019 10:10am"Originally patented by Polk 30ish years ago."Matt Polk did indeed patent the use of Zobel networks in loudspeakers. That was in response to power amps self-destructing when using Polk's high-capacitance Cobra s... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance "....The first failure he put down to simple component failure, but when the second amp fried very quickly after power on he suspected something else was the cause - I believed it to be his TOTL Cardas speaker cables which had a very high capacita... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance "....if there are no specific values for inductance/capacitance, then how do you know you were comparing cables with higher/lower values? "atdavid,I always buy speaker cable in bulk and terminate them myself. I use mfg's published data and, if ... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance "Now about those values of capacitance and inductance where they become an issue?" atdavid,There are no specific values/limits for inductance and capacitance because of variables in the application. Your experience with amplifier instability usin... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance atdavid,You never answered my question...."Is there any scientific reasoning behind your choice of audio cables?" | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance "I would be very surprised if anyone in the last 30 years ever said high capacitance or high inductance were virtues. So, I guess what I’m saying is what else is new? But surely we can agree there are other desirable cable and power cord character... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance "If you are able to relate the sonic differences to cable construction, I would assume you can relate that to measurable engineering quantities?" atdavid,Absolutely. I have found, for example, that low inductance is a desirable characteristic in ... |