westcoastaudiophile
Responses from westcoastaudiophile
| Component matching expertise - how do you do it? esthetically - yes, the same brand gears in the rack look awesome! from the sound side, not so much.. I’ve got great tunes out of SS pre+tube amp, all different brands.. | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing "About 2x or so the warmth of the regular Cottonmouth Gold” - blind test confirmed? | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found “Argentum is great for low level listening” meaning darker background? signal cables must be properly shielded, shielding isolation of 80dB + is very good for “low level” tunes! Typical cheap cables have shielding isolation below 60dB, thus any ... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @tubeguy80 it seems we share a lot of "audio craziness” in common than disagreements, incl. enjoying vinyl/tubes/lossless/cables/jazz/etc.. :-) - thanks! | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @lak I respectfully would love to offer you challenge to prove your opinion.. take brand new and brake-in pre your method cables, and try to identify the difference.. if you are in PDX area, I would love to assist you! | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found dear lak, cable, unlike SS / tube circuit, tubes, does not break-in, they age. aged cable performance is always worse than new. there is some interconnect performance improvement after tightening connections, mostly due to contact area increase an... | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables I use china made cables for DIY designs.. original china (non brand) cable are never done properly, terminations are not properly soldered / attached, braids of wires not all connected etc.. cables and some terminals as DIY materials are pretty go... | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? I use stereo microscope with led illumination, currently Carl Zeiss STEMI 305 w/ 10x, and 25x oculars. It helped me to root cause “funny sound” issues, including dirt on moving magnets, not perfect needle azimuth etc. | |
| Do speakers need to be re-broken in? @mclinnguy not sure if break-in at less than five watts will do anything, but older speakers always is good to restore / check: 1) Sweep speakers freq. for resonances at 50% max power using external audio sine generator connected directly to amp ... | |
| DB-510 0.7m Oyaide BNC Cable? @fthompson251 I use many Oyade cables/wires in my system, all Japan made, excellent quality! Being professional in high speed interconnects / circuitry, I see this cable is qualified for 5Gb interconnect, and uses advantage dielectric / metals. Ph... | |
| Faint buzz in speakers "simply make sure all lights with dimmers are turned off while listening” "I noticed that sometimes it's a light rheostat (sorry, dimmer switch) making noise in the circuit. However, it's usually a cheap charger that is the culprit in the circuit... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @samureyex ..in your cable break-in experiment :-) assuming you didn’t change eardrums + and speakers! cables are degrading performance with time, resistance increases, electrical length (derivative of phase velocity) increases, leakage increases... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found "Good lord these 2 cables are blowing my mind." yeah, “mind” could be the biggest variable. | |
| Faint buzz in speakers @jmfinney I had exactly the same issue! After replacing US brand pre+amp with Accuphase C2420+AD2820 + P4500/A48, such noise disappeared! | |
| Speaker cables with good timbre @audiogabby KimberKable TC12 or even TC8.. opens al mids/high freq! |