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| Heavy power cord This is one of the easiest things to test. Simply listen with everything laying on the floor. Then listen with everything propped up off the floor. Literally anything that will hold them up will do. Paper or plastic cups, pieces of wood or plast... | |
| Heavy power cord I have some heavy and thick power cords and no single one of them is unplugging, But if power cable is mostly (or completely) in the air then you need a longer power cord, which will keep majority of its weight on the floor. As well it seems to me... | |
| Need help Choosing A New Interconnect Sorry if this may sound unhelpful but using the interconnects as a tone control is really no different from using the tone control(s) on the preamp. Actually, the controls on the preamp (probably) provides more "control" over the tone than any int... | |
| Speaker cable and Interconnect BRASS Connectors Tellurium copper (or even berylium copper) would be superior to brass or bronze, yet strong enough and elastic. Brass is a legacy, historic material but also obviously cheaper to make connectors from. While it is great for general use it's not the... | |
| Need help Choosing A New Interconnect https://www.ebay.com/itm/123960121461However the plugs on that one are not the best ones, IC-300 is great with Eichmann Bullet plugs, I'm really not sure about LAT original ones...I have two such. They give that sparkle in the highs without sacr... | |
| USB vs SPDIF, which sounds better? Good and inexpensive SPDIF cable can be made by using Supra Trico 75Ohm coax from the bulk and Star Line gold plated RCA. Tonal neutrality and good detail. You only need to solder it properly since there are two separate coax braids in the cable -... | |
| USB vs SPDIF, which sounds better? Most standalone DAC’s don’t take power from the USB cable anyway. Power isn’t the real culprit, the ground loop can occur in the data, not to mention extra noise. Ideally DAC’s now have galvanic isolation built into all of the metal connectors. If... | |
| USB vs SPDIF, which sounds better? It’s really complex, the way I see it. It’s a great question though.SPDIF has one significant advantage: Both SPDIF transmitters and receivers are real (hi-fi) audio grade components. USB transmitters and receivers aren’t, they are computer compon... | |
| Chinese fake cables How fake, how good? China (ebay, aliexpress...) merchants audio products are full of false specifications. If you want to check yourself, buy stuff declared as copper (RCA sockets, power plugs...), then check yourself whether it's really copper - piece of metal saw w... |