williewonka
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| Spades vs Bananas vs Bare Wire Treated with Caig Deox My preferences...I prefer NOT to use bare wire, just because the contact area can be fraught with issues like micro arching, oxidation low area of contact i.e. depending on the wire usedI do prefer Bananas, but these too can have problemsthe area ... | |
| DIY- NeoTech at Parts Connexion @erik_squires - take a look at this DIY option - lots of members like them :-) Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling | Audiogon Discussion Forum I now use Solid Neotech UP-OCC copper wire on all my Helix cables and it is very goodRegard... | |
| Looking for upgrade advice Of the two - I would get the MMF 9.3 - this TT is very well designedEven the MMF 7.3 is another great uprgade from the Fluance rt85 Regards - Steve | |
| Schiit Modi Many Thanks - my friend decided the Schiit was his best option. | |
| 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... |