williewonka
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| Where to start upgrading? @fignuts33 - Well, having spent many years investigating and building cables, the only place I would start is with the cables. WHY cables? good cables convey the most delicate signals and deliver subtle venue acoustics mediocre/bad cables int... | |
| Yorville YSM5-2 Poweres Speakers Get the "Thumb's Up" @ozzy62 - Damn ! I miised that one - too much scotch You use to be able to delete a post if there were no other posts, which I would have done to fix the title. I emailed Tech Support and she said even she could not fix typo’s I turned off spel... | |
| Yorville YSM5-2 Poweres Speakers Get the "Thumb's Up" Oops, the title should have been... Yorville YSM5-2 Powered Speakers Get the "Thumb's Up" | |
| Powered Speaker Approach @gdaddy1 , you are correct, they lack the really deep bass from about 45 hz, down to 20 hz, but everything down to 45-50hz is very detailed. But they don’t rattle the china I played Peter Gabriel’s So and was amazed by the bass ability of these... | |
| Powered Speaker Approach A couple of things I forgot to mention in my post above... while these speakers are manufactured in China (what isn't these days), they are designed, engineered and quality controlled right here in Canada as well as having a master volume cont... | |
| Im going to regret my cable question @neversatisfied - Take a look at Zavfino cables. Excellent performance at a reasonable cost Regards, Steve | |
| New to Turntables @shelly40, I would opt for the Music Hall, because I prefer the sound of hefty plinth designs and their other design features are exceptional also I can highly recommend Simmaudio Moon phono stages, they are exceptional and configurable to most a... | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... So my system had reasonable components and cables and I had albums that sounded very good and others that sounded less than stellar. Some pressings sounded well engineered and pressed whilst others seemed to lack the same amount of finesse. I em... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? As one person above said, if there is a ground strike near your house, it raises potential of the ground in the immediate vacinity to incredibly high voltages which feeds back into anything that is connected to the house ground AND POOF Whole hom... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? @bzawa take a look at this link What i have found makes a good cable It talks about what elements of cable design can improve performance. Cable are the heart of my system and improves every aspect of audio system performance. I've applied ... | |
| DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @raf90 - apologies for my delay in answering your posts. Unfortunately, I have taken the web site down due to the expense of hosting. But the first post of this thread contains new links to pdf files that shows how to build them. Regards | |
| DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @nightlyfly - sorry not to reply to your PM, but that feature requires a credit card number and I do not enter that into any app, so I have to respond via this thread. Your question... Hi Steve I am preparing the Helix cables, I use copper / te... | |
| An IEC with grip @zlone I use these https://www.amazon.ca/SPEEDWOX-Crimping-Electrical-Terminals-Connectors/dp/B0C6Q96CZC?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A3TX3Z5Z5OFI4X Hope that helps | |
| An IEC with grip @zlone - another good iec connector is Viborg. Available on Amazon Very close to Sonar Quest. They also have silver plated copper versions. So, You can probably tell I am a fan of silver played copper. I have tried other materials but have foun... | |
| An IEC with grip @zlone - I've tried solders with different silver content, which are better than normal solder, but I've found that eutectic solder performs better. It has a single constant melting point and solidifies very fast, which makes for a much better ele... |