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| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper @carlsbad Audioquest type 4 & 5 is solid core. Both carry two solid red and black cores for bi-wiring. Audioquest states Type 5 is 15 AWG in total. Stranded speaker cables remind me of the Monster cables I started with in the 90’s, which ar... | |
| Power cable break in? @immatthewj The difference between Romex and audio cables is the insulation. Romex uses PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) with a nylon jacket. Cables utilize a dielectric, or electrical insulator that is polarized by an applied electrical field. Dielect... | |
| Power Cable Suggestions Needed Recently purchased and installed a Zavfino Majestic power cord ($450) on my NAD C298 and the change was beyond WOW. I had been using Pangea and Audioquest (NRG4) and so there was a lot of room for improvement. But it was stark. Since I run two amp... | |
| IsoAcoustics Gaia feet on Oracle Delphi turntable If you tap on the support under your turntable and hear do not hear resonance (sound through your speakers) the built-in suspension of your turntable mfg is sufficient. I put my amps on Isocoustics aperta 200 supports and the sound changed notice... | |
| Power cable dilemma @jrimer If McIntosh used lamp cord in 1990 and here we are today with a plethora of choices...that is a quantum leap IMHO. And to be frank, if you selected a $40 Pangea cable for your Mark Levinson amplifier - as you stated - you should re-evalu... | |
| Power cable dilemma Lifted from the first line on Empirical evidence - Wikipedia: "Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure"... | |
| Power cable dilemma Do you really think that the engineers and designers that produce very expensive amplifiers would include a cheap cord with their product if they had any reason at all to believe that including a better one was necessary to enjoy its full audio q... | |
| Silver Speaker Cables Recently purchased an RCA cable from Lavricables (Master line of 14 strands of 5N silver laden cables) and placed it between my DAC (Schitt Yggy) and my preamp (Rogue RP-1). Previously, and everywhere else, I had/have Audioquest Sydney interconnec... | |
| so, i recorded a type 1, normal bias, on a 70s cassette deck, and it sounds FANTASTIC 8-Tracks provided better bass and highs as Dolby variants outside of "A" decreased volumes in the cassette era. Spent many hours making my own mix tapes and used whatever was available including the Memorex brand. I preferred 90's, which as I reca... | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) I am using the PrimaLuna EVO 100 Preamp. $2199. My amplifiers are solid state so the 8 tubes that the Primaluna provides gives me the fuller sound that solid state pre-amps cannot create - at least at this price point. I will admit that the first ... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? Now I have a problem: They sound so good that I guess I now need yet another pair for parts/backup!Vinyl_rules - That is funny. Like me, I assume you are analytical and when a plan comes together, you worry about ensuring that the plan can thrive ... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? All I can definitely say is to my ears, a single pair of the F328Be’s are better than a single pair of the RT-2000p’s, but a DOUBLE pair of the RT-2000p’s are significantly better than a single pair of F328Be’s. When I run the math, $20,500 vs. $4... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? Ha, it's called smearing. As mijostyn pointed out eons ago, drivers need to be very close together, 1/2 inch to speak in one voice. You should try it, instead of wasting the time you have on earth listening to mud. Seriously!Ever attend a concert?... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? Even with the same brand speakers, you are wrong. I agree with mijostyn on this one, and we don't agree on much. You REALLY need to A/B these configurations with a switch and dB meter. Trust me, you will not go back to multiple drivers spaced apar... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? Very bad idea. First of all you will only get an additional 3 dB out of it. Worse, you will permanently damage whatever imaging you have. You can split up woofers that way because the wavelengths they operate at are very long but, you can not do t... |