williewonka
Responses from williewonka
| A question to the Sound Engineers out there I must admit that I have found a lot of current music is mixed quite well, with excellent imaging and separation of performers - so they seem to be doing something right regardless of their studio environment.I guess what prompted my OP is - I had... | |
| C7 cord or C13 w/adapter for integrated amp? I have tried adapters like this one in the past and they seemed to work well enough,Anytime you insert yet another "interface" in the power supply to a component you can expect it to degrade performance, but for this style of connector I doubt whe... | |
| A question to the Sound Engineers out there I think the studio in the Bricasti video above is probably not like most studios. having said that there are some record labels that go to extremes. Tacet - a label that goes to extremes when actually recording their live recordings do not have ... | |
| Upgrading speaker cables advice. These are very good... FIDELIUM SPEAKER & INTERCONNECT CABLES. Thin foil (ribbon) And well within your budget - just make sure the binding posts will fit themIf you want more conventional looking cables take a look at KLE Innovations - their ... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Today’s interesting experience/observations...As per my post above - I now have the Neotech UP-OCC as the live/signal wires across my entire system - that is except for my power distribution center. The live wires in it was 4 stands of 18 Mudorf S... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Those a great prices - many thanks for the link - I’ll update my web site :-)This will make the Helix cables much more affordable ! - When I first started this - the 10 gauge wire was actually $1.30/ft - these prices are better than that.They have... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @divertiti - RE: Steve, I’m using only Mundorf silver gold barewire, have you seen those oxidize like copper? OK - so as well as having a piece of bare copper wire, I also have a piece of the Mundorf Silver/gold wire sitting on my audio stand and... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @divertiti - one last thing you might want to consider if you are planning on using bare wire...Based on an ongoing experiment I am conducting...- I used bare copper wire on the signal wire of my speaker cables- I enclosed the bare wire inside a... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @divertiti - Thanks for verifying the Helix IC as a SPDIF - it’s been a while since I used SPDIF, so knowing it works with great components is very much appreciated.WRT.. Now the question is do you use double run for Spdif or keep it single run? G... | |
| Living with unsolvable hum - Any audio detectives out there? @montaldo you posted... - Hums with any source, not volume dependent, still hums with no source components attached (I even tried unplugged them from the wall too). But the hum stops if preamp is disconnected from amps. Since the hum appears with... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @divertiti - unfortunately this is definitely uncharted territory for me.But since you are making a Helix XLR cable, would it be possible to try that cable as the AES EBU cable to see if it works? Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to ex... | |
| What's your "buy one of these and get it re-tipped" cartridge suggestion for a DL103 fan? I started with a stock 103 for $229.I read about the various tweaks WRT aluminum/wood head-shell mods and learned what made each one work.After some thought - I then applied a simple DIY mod of my own...http://image99.net/blog/files/23c020f75290d3... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @divertiti - what connector will the cable be plugged into?- Balanced XLR style- Single ended BNC connectorsThanks | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @divertiti - Personally - I would not mix the bare wire and PTFE wire.Mainly because I like to have everything "the same"But if you think about it, the signal in the PTFE wire could be subject to the noise generated by the insulation. The bare wir... | |
| Rega Planar 3 : Heavily upgraded yet produces a sound that I don't like OP - here are a few upgrades i did to my 32 year old rega 2 - it sounds amazing - now :-)http://image99.net/blog/files/04fdba8476cfd21bdd7a5fdf38c8cdf5-28.htmlI recommend the RCA plugs, metal sub-platter and Acrylic platter upgrades to start withT... |