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Capacative cable?

What makes a high capacitive cable? I ask because I have Xindak fs-gold cables (a silver/gold)foil cable and my amp acted up (got really hot). Sent in for repairs and nothing wrong--suggested my cables may have a capacitive issue. I did some quick searches and did not find a thread dealing whith what design features increase capacitvieness? (spelling?)
orind
orind OP
27 posts
 
They are stacked, not side by side. Thanks for all your help. Bit of a mystery--I have a Simaudio W5-LE that became superhot in my sytem after a listening session--Came home after lunch (I leave the amp on all the time) and smelled hot plastic--needed oven Mitts to remove the amp from the system--sent in for repair, passes all tests just fine. I had the amp in my system for 3 weeks (purchased used here on audiogon).

I love the sound of the amp (or lack of any particular sound) so I think I will go back to my XLO Ultra 6 cables for a while just in case.
aball
2,018 posts
 
Well don't use those Xindak cables any more! Your amp has no feedback so it can't handle that sort of situation. This is one of the pitfalls of zero-feedback no one likes to talk about. Glad you didn't burn up your amp.

Arthur
orind OP
27 posts
 
Yep--just ordered some Mapleshade golden helix plus--may see the xindak up for sale soon.
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