williewonka
Responses from williewonka
| Naim + Cardas @akg_ca - yup, NAIM is famous for its propagamda !!! NAIM recommends only NAIM’s own cables as a preferred pairing. This is part of the "NAIM Culture" and those on the NAIM forums adhere to this practice without question. It allows NAIM to sel... | |
| Naim + Cardas @ticten - If you are looking for Speaker cables I would not recommend high end Cardas, because they have very high capacitance and under certain circumstances the cardas can cause the NAIM to oscilate and burn out components - this little detail ... | |
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can @markley - start with cables. Once you have them n place it’s easier to discern improvements when changing components and speakers. A very good brand is Audio Envy - great cables at affordable prices. Next step up from there would be Zavfino He... | |
| Component contributions to “sound stage” @knownothing - without a doubt the "component" that improved my imaging are the cables. It wasn't until I started building my own cables that I discovered this. i had tried many different components - amps, streamers, phono stages etc in the s... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @sasho - please use this wire calculator in furure to calculate wire diameter Wire Gause Calculator As yu can see the diameter of the 14 gague wire wil be 1.6277 mm so the inside diameter of the tube should bs around 25% larger, which is 2.034m... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @norco74 and @pindac - gentlemen, thank you for your posts above. They contain excellent information, in that they provide alternate thoughts/products/feedback for other readers to ponder and try out. As I have said many time throughout this thre... | |
| Older Power Cables @joscow - As mentioned above there have been significant improvements metalurgy - e.g. UP-OCC copper - that improve details and dynamics Insulations - low dielectric constant insulations that improve clarity Cable Geometry - lowers noise floo... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @lemonhaze - actually, that ratio is what is posted on my website.👍 If required you could reduce it to 2:1, because unlike interconnects, where the signal and any induced noise would be amplified, making that noise an issue, whereas any induced r... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @abolive - that is correct @lemonhaze - the ratio, 2.5:1, will work well .regards, Steve | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @abolive, double signal wires for sure, but I found doubling the neutral on the single ended RCA cable only made a marginal improvement. For me, the amount of improvement did not justify the additional effort, complexity and expence. If you are ... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @lemonhaze - the 16 gauge signal would be fine, but I would double up on the neutral. The Helix works best if the neutral is a heavier gauge than the signal conductor. or buy some 14 gauge from TFA regards | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @pindac - I took a look at the QED low eddy plug and it is very similar, in priciple, to the KLEI RCA... The neutral contact design is very small the signal contact design is tubular So I believe a low mass style of RCA, like the KLEI RCA, ... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @abolive - I have use the 'V' shape, but I generally tend to solder onto the flat spot. for solid wire I place a small 90 degree turn at the end of the wire and insert that into the 'V' I didn;t find it made any difference, from a sound pe... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @lewinskih01 - looks! Perhaps similar plugs from companies like Furutech use real carbon fiber, bur the plugs I have used simply use a small carbon fiber looking band. The benefit of these plugs is the housing has a more secure cable clamp... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @pindac, what brands confirm to low eddy design RCA plugs? Many Thanks |