williewonka
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| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? @danip4 - I’m far from an expert on this topic, but this thread appears to show Checksum’s are employed in Ethernet...https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/37492/how-does-the-tcp-ip-stack-handle-udp-ch...What I can confirm is that... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? RE: ... All you need is to have every send bit being received correctlyAnd there lies the problem !!!My understanding is...With SPDIF, Optical and USB there is no way to know IF the data stream RECEIVED is identical to the data stream SENTEthernet... | |
| What is the appeal of the Denon 103 cartridges? @aberyclark - they are inexpensive (for a moving coil)- pretty darn good at what they do - very musical - and easily modified.I started with the 103 and found it very nice. The price made it attractive for my first foray into the world of moving c... | |
| Loose speaker wire and high power amps @blueranger P.S. Since your amp is class A/B, it will run a little hotter than most other amps - it is nothing to worry about.I had a Luxman A/B amp and it got too hot to leave your hand on it for longer than a few seconds, so heat is not necessar... | |
| Loose speaker wire and high power amps @blueranger - your problem with you amp running hot may actually be due to the speaker cables (i.e. being of higher capacitance than most) causing the amp to oscillate.12TC is 494 pF / meter - you get 3 meters of that and it’s a whopping 1482 pF !... | |
| Shortcut or badcut? @sound22card - If you think about what is at play IF you were to do this...- e.g. Each set of speakers has it's own cross over, so unless you implement the same model/year of speaker there will likely be differences in the signal path, which can l... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? Because the OP was asking specifically about copper vs. silver would be my guess.But you could start another thread just for that :-) | |
| Is the Cambridge Audio 651p better than the 640p? Agreed - for the lower output MC cart’s take a look at the Simaudio MOON LP110 - goes up to 66db and is a much higher resolving phono stage.Since porting the review above I have upgraded to the Simaudio MOON LP5.3 RS - which is in a whole differen... | |
| phono preamp for the ortofon 2m bronze @kully560 - I have a Simaudio Moon LP5.3 RS phono stage - which is very much like the current LP610.The nice thing about Simaudio as a company is, they flow all of their latest "developments" DOWN to their entry level products as time goes by, as ... | |
| Advice on whether speaker upgrade is in order What speaker cables are you using? | |
| Phono Amp for new Rega Planar 10 with Apheta 3 @mofimadness - all is good :-)WRT...Sad, but it happens all the timeToo true - but then there are the people that return to vinyl after many years and the new adoptees from the younger generation.So all is not lost :-)@arturgorniak - I’m not an ag... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? @almarg - Al, thanks as always for you complete and thorough descriptions and reasonings.Your point about... one "Wire Type" being optimal for 50, 75, and 110 applications.It was the RCA connectors I was referring to as being suitable for those im... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? @almarg - I too wondered about this aspect of digital cables design.It all started about 5 years ago when KLE Innovaitons contacted me about their products.I built a very good analogue cable and wondered how it would perform in the digital realm ... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? @david_ten - Ooooops sorry about that….@williewonka Steve: within the parameters of (the "experiment" / components / systems) you tested them, correct? Thanks.Yes - I was testing with digital audio files up to and including 24/192. They connected ... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? I tried an experiment a few years back...- I built an extremely good digital cable with silver signal wires and exceptional RCA plugs- I then "stepped back" the design by replacing the signal wire with copper - there was no change- I then stepped ... |