williewonka
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| Question about Bi-Wiring @jay73 - ditch those little plates that couple the terminals and replace them with real copper wire. Make each jumper 20" long make each jumper from 2 strands of solid UP-OCC copper wire 16 gauge or 14 gauge will suffice use some sort of co... | |
| biwire? and best way to do it? @leemaze - So it appears you have not bi-wired at present, and I am assuming you are using the little jumpers that come with bi-wire speakers? Get rid of the jumpers and replace them with copper wire jumpers - make each jumper about 20" long. Th... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @mbolek - you have touched on a subject that I am yet to observe, despite having tried it many times with a variety of cables - e.g. power, interconnect and speaker cables. I do not doubt the observations of others - i.e. a cable sounds better in... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling RE: The Ultimate Helix DIY Cable - I forgot to mention that when winding the helix conductor .. I initially cut both the wire and the tubing to the appropriate length I left enough wire to form a 1" tightly twisted section at each end of th... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @fai_v - this appears to be an older amplifier. The balanced symmetrical design is relatively recent, I also saw no warnings on picture of the amp (rear view) that indicates the amp is a balanced symmetrical design. I believe the Helix cables wi... | |
| Who loves Cotton ?? @erik_squires - when used as an insulation Cotton performs better (i.e. improved clarity) due to its lower value of dielectric constant (Dk). Vacuum is 1.0 Air is 1.1 Cotton/silk is 1.3 Foamed Teflon (e.g. Airlok) is 1.4 Teflon is 2.2 PVC ... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling The Ultimate Helix DIY Cable ? - I think so This version implements everything I have learned/tried over the past few years 2 x 20 guage UP-OCC 5N solid Silver wire from Parts Connexion, each wire in it’s own teflon tube for the Signal wires, ... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @bigslacker - That is correct - it provides the very best performance because The tube is quite rigid and does not collapse around the wire so the actual point of contact between the wire and the tube is extremely small the air gap inside the ... | |
| OCC cables anyone? @zavato - having built countless cables over the years using Copper, OFC copper, Tinned copper Silver, Silver alloy and most recently UP-OCC copper, I would have to say that UP-OCC copper is my current preference There are also differences betwee... | |
| Phono cables For that particular turntable I would look at Hijiri cables - take a read of https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/hijiri-users-thread-2 I believe the name of the distributor is on there. Or - if they're too pricey for you take a look at Zavf... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time From @lewm ’s post above Excuse me, but wasn’t it Tiefenbrun’s (Linn’s) point that turntables create PRAT, not cartridges or anything else in the signal path. So does this mean digital music does not have any PRAT? Mine does! bags of it, b... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @mawe - There appears to be some interesting articles on the web on this topic some say yes - all three have to be the same size some say the neutral can be bigger than the Live wire but definitely NOT the other way around some say th... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @dbass - here’s what I am using at present Interconencts: 2 x 18 gauge solid UP-OCC copper for signal and 1 x 16 gauge solid UP-OCC copper neutral conductor Some prefer 2 x 16 gauge for the neutral Speaker cables 2 ... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer Speakers can have very different sound "signatures" e,g, some might sound natural some might sound "boxy" some might sound "dull" some sound "lively" That type of difference cannot be rectified with an equalizer If one speaker is brighter... | |
| Use of a super tweeter worth the investement ? @audiosens - if you are 17 - you might be able to hear a difference - the question then is - is it an improvement??? Tannoy recommends them, but then they are selling them Regards - Steve |