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| Furutech 's Project V1 Power Cord.....question. @garebear "the right cable for my amp" please explain what right cable for you means. | |
| Wilson Alexia 2 lacking some bass @greenspyder718 how do you drive mono-amps, what is your preamp? also, what is sound level you think bass is lacking? | |
| Power cord @nasaman "Ferrari or Lamborghini?” OP Q sounds more like: to buy Ferrari class Steering wheel for Ford escort/toyota/etc., and then to report better car performance! @conrads1 "Looking at spending around $1500 2 m audioquest or Nordost” Why? | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. @ghdprentice "Anyone familiar with the term “ lively” as applied to turntables?” Yes! I compared the same soundtrack in dig and vinyl.. dig is a lil dead! only vinyl gives sense of live music! I agree analog sound reproduction path has some cha... | |
| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? @lanx0003 "Japanese domestic models typically come with a fixed voltage setting specifically for the Japanese market, which is 100V AC. “ correct, the same units as sold in US/EU are configured for 100V AC internally, and marked accordingly at the... | |
| 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... |