williewonka
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| Cables For Simaudio gear @filipedine - FYI..I have no issue with Cardas but I believe their cables are better suited to Tube amps.Someone I met had Cardas top of the line speaker cables and they FRIED his $10,000 Ayre power amp because they drove the amp into an oscillati... | |
| What's your investment threshold? So, if you simply sink money into your cables, you are giving those companies that are good at marketing exactly whet they want - YOUR CASH!This is the easy route and given a infinite amount of money and an infinite amount of time - even a chimpan... | |
| New cartridge $500 range @thegreenline - I gonna suggest getting a new phono stagetry this one... Amazon.com: MOON by Simaudio 110LP V2 Phono Preamplifier: Home Audio & Theater It is within your $500 budget and will improve sound greatlyRegards | |
| Rega Planar 10/Aria MC Phono Stage HUM @sumadoggie - The Aria has a two pin plug, so it is not "grounded"Many amps have an issue with ungrounded source components - i.e. HUM- my Bryston has this issue- my Bluesound Node 2i causes hum if it is the only connected component- However, my S... | |
| Upgrade cartridge or something else? @mwh777 - having gone through the constant and $$$expensive upgrades to my own Rega Planar II - I would recommend replacing the turntable before you get too far into those upgradesSome might say that is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, bu... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling I have now updated my web site with instruction and images of the process for removing the insulation and installing the Teflon tubeJust click on the link to The HELIX IMAGE (Air) on the home page at... My Audio Alchemy (image99.net) It also shows... | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! For me, cables have provided the greatest challenges, but over a 6 year period here are the things I have learned that have made significant improvements in my DIY cables and as a consequence - improved sound quality to levels I could not have bel... | |
| Wireless sub @zappas - re:... Does it sacrifice sound for convenience ?At present, I would say it does, but give it a couple of years and todayssub manufacturers will imbed wireless circuitry in some of their models.Not so long ago powered speakers were not m... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Chris - I use the one below for both IC's and power cables. It is sufficiently wide to provide adequate space around a 2 x 18 gauge twisted conductor and a 1 x 12 gauge or 1 x 14 gauge solid wire, that way one tube fits all PTFE 10 Tubing - Thi... | |
| Jaw Dropping Improvement? @lg1 - I simply added GREAT cables to my Bluesound Node 2i - granted, the cables cost more than the Node 2i, but I didn’t introduce yet another device with all of its associated noisy cables into the mixThe Bluesound has a great DAC and an excelle... | |
| Connecting Bluesound Node 2i to Anthem receiver DH Labs makes two very good optical cables - I have used the one in this link many times and a friend just put one from his MAC Mini to his Schiit DAC and it sounds pretty amazinghttps://silversonic.com/products/digital-cables/toslink-optical/They... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Just to clarify - I am not "anti-silver" - I used solid silver for many years and preferred it.But the UP-OCC solid copper is so darn good, I now find it difficult to justify the cost of silver, for what might be a small ROII know others on this t... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @massagevermont - Chris - all I do is take a Utility knife like this one Internet’s Best Snap-Off Utility Knife - Regular - Set of 3 - Belt Clip - Retractable Razor Knife Set - Box Cutter Locking Razor Knife, Utility Knives - Amazon Canada lay the... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @aniwolfe - the quick answer - Not in the Teflon tube.I did use the Mundorf 2 x 18 gauge Mundorf Solid Silver + 1% gold in cotton sleeve for IC's a couple of iterations ago that was replaced with 2 x 18 gauge VH Audio UP-OCC solid copper with Air ... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling OK, so in my post on 01-20-2021 6:13pm (on page 6) I talked about removing the insulation from the Neotech and VH Audio wires for the signal wires of my interconnects. I said at the end of the post that I would provide an update on the burn-in pro... |