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| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner congrats with finding your audiophile happiness formulae! I see your new cables have RF clamps, closer to IEC conn side (correct use). Unless your original PC is defective (out of spec), you most likely deal with high freq. noise issue... | |
| DarTzeel’s new direction @lynn_olson for ideal non reflective response cable characteristic impedance must match driver and receiver impedances.. we have to choices for coax 50/75Ohms. problem with RCA is a connecting low output impedance drivers (pre/phono/cd etc) to hig... | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner PC “upgrades” sometimes are higher resistance cables vs. original ones, benefiting in RC lower freq. filtering.. I still have no clarity on what (amp, power level, etc) exactly did you “upgrade” from original to “better” and how identify... | |
| 30 yr old speakers- time to replace drivers? @pureclarity sorry, I missed the problem statement in your OP! do you hear distortions, or any kind of sound problems' to fix? If not, why to “fix” anything? Speaker design (fix) can be very challenging, and needed some assessment, x-over sims, m... | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner thanks for listing all of cables in your system! I just tried to understand if you have found improvement of replacing original power cable by “better $$$” one.. Do I understand it correctly from your posts, as You “dunno”? | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner "I too have had many brands of power cables. Pangea, Zu Audio, Nordost, Audioquest. These are by far the most dynamic and holographic.” cables for what part/separate? compared to what, - original one? | |
| DarTzeel’s new direction I’ve played with dartzeel’s amp circuitry, and assessed overall design.. they are trying to replicate tube sound, by increasing output impedance and create sophisticated fb loop freq./phase characteristics in SS ckt. I give Dartzeel credit of 50Oh... | |
| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? @lanx0003 all Accuphase devices I’ve seen have power transformers with taps for 100/117/220/240V AC, which allows to reconfigure it to different country w/o need of autotransformer. | |
| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? @toronto416 damping factor increase for heavier SKUs - yes, S/N ratio - not. S/N ratio measured against highest power, thus the same or lil higher noise floor for heavy brother will show higher SNR. Damping factor increase over 200 will not benefi... | |
| Interconnect Break In? "Instructions in Cardas box clearly state ""through use (after 150-200 hours) the dielectric materials will build up a uniform charge” -that only can be true for cheap dielectric, which cures (hardens) with time, faster at high temperatures.. au... | |
| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? Accuphase P4500/P4600/A48 are not entry level amps in any sense, rather lower max power brothers of the same family! All above amps use the same fist stage amp circuitry as high power A80/!00/300. As of P4600, it has a bit more class-A-region powe... | |
| Interconnect Break In? @curiousjim imagine cable production / assembly line with last step check before selling to buyers, assuming all cables are different, even the same brand! | |
| Which power cord should you buy first @emergingsoul +1 on "If you can tell the difference between switching power cords you are truly a remarkable human being.” comment I replace original high end stock cords if I need more flexibility, length adj. etc. Maintenance such as cleaning c... | |
| Interconnect Break In? @jasonbourne71 " What does change over time is the contact resistance of the connectors due to oxidation.” +1 Simple unplug-plug the same cable changes contact resistance dramatically! Always check your contacts under microscope of just magnifyin... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move @jbhiller JBL M2 will work for you nicely! in your room you will not be needed more that 10W amp to make walls shaking! JBL is highly competitive manufacturer, and provides customers (ref series) with comprehensive test results for each unit (freq... |