williewonka
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| 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... | |
| Should I explore balanced cables to connect my amp to dac? I prefer single ended cables for my audio, mainly because my Bryston B135 integrated does not support XLR.For the distance you indicate I would stick with Single endedBut you could try this one from Amazon - just to compare. NEAT Beeline XLR Qua... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @maxuima95 - YES - only for the speaker cable !Here is my understanding (and I am paraphrasing heavily here)...the "balanced" audio signal that comes through an XLR Interconnect (e.g. from a DAC) is "processed" by the receiving component (e.g. a p... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @lionel just found Ice Power Module details - in the literature that is available online- The speaker output of the 200AS1 is a balanced output with two active signal lines capable of driving complex speaker loads. As the speaker output is alre... | |
| Ideas For Phono Cable For My Turntable. @stereo5 - RE: I plan on replacing my ZU modified DL-103 cartridge for a Dynavector DV20X2L cartridge and thought I would upgrade the cable at the same time. Here’s something else to consider - replacing the ZU might not be your best optionJust ha... | |
| Speaker cables for Focal 1038 Be? @larseand - speakers of this caliber really deserve some very good cables.I would only consider cables such as ... Silversmith Fedelium Speaker cables - a pair of 10ft cables is $1400, which in todays world is not too bad. A lot of people on thi... | |
| Ideas For Phono Cable For My Turntable. @stereo5 - There are a few options open to you...EASIEST: Get a Nordost Frey cable - they are very goodIMPROVED: Get a one piece harness installed in your arm - probably cost around $600-$700 and it will sound even better than the FreyTHE ULTIMATE... |