herman
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| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? I just re-read my last post and I apologize because it looks like a personal attack on Sean. Maybe it is. I don't think that has any place here so I must apologize.I'm afraid I've lost my patience with those who take dogmatic positions based on an... | |
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? Sean, lighten up :>) You sometimes seem to grab a mantra, such as lower resistance is better, and defend it to the death without even considering another perspective.The issue is much more complex than how much resistance a cable has. That is b... | |
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? mPrime, your math is flawed to say that you get 20dB or 30dB less signal passed through a carbon conductor. The ratio of carbon's conductivity to that of copper is not the proper way to look at it. What we are concerned with is the amount of volta... | |
| Tubed-amp power-supply question A cap in parallel with a choke creates a notch filter, one that is tuned to and has a very high impedance to a narrow range of frequencies. By choosing values that produce a filter centered at the ripple frequency of the power supply, usually 60 o... | |
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? An 18 gauge copper wire has .0209 ohms of resistance per meter. That means carbon at 867 times more is 18 ohms. Using a larger cross section of carbon would reduce this even further. A 10 guage carbon fiber would be 2.6 ohms/m. I don't know what t... | |
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? On the other hand, why do you feel that lower resistance would be better? | |
| I Need Some "Modern Groove" Jazz Suggestions I'm not sure what a "modern groove" is but get a copy of Johnny Griffin "Return of the Griffin" on Galaxy for fast driving saxophone. It is very well recorded to boot. | |
| I Need Some "Modern Groove" Jazz Suggestions A lot of those you listed have recorded in a wide variety of styles. Maybe you listened to one of their efforts that wasn't to your taste, but another might be. Bill Frisell recorded some stuff with Ginger Baker that might be what you seek, but he... | |
| Speaker Cables - Optimal Length I too once thought that the shorter the better until I actually tried it. I had some 8TC and monoblocks so I figured why not put the monoblocks directly behind the speakers and use very short cables. Save a bunch of money and not have any colorati... | |
| Preamp/ Amp matching It is wrong to characterize balanced as "more modern" since some of the finest equipment made in the world today is single ended. I would choose a preamp from a manufacturer that specializes in single ended equipment as equipment that is optimized... | |
| Spindle oil I'm a terrible driver | |
| Spindle oil El, eplain to me how your arm can keep from cogging over to catch up when the groove spacing is wider than average. You can't. If the arm is moving at a constant speed and the groove's relative motion toward the spindle is faster, the arm has to e... | |
| Spindle oil El, one of us is confused and I think it is you.Consider a record where the spacing is wider than average. You lower the stylus into the groove, the arm is perpendcular to the rail, and begins moving toward the spindle. However, it is traveling to... | |
| Spindle oil El, it has to have some amount of cogging, otherwise there wouldn't be any need for the sensors. Every time it makes a correction it cogs and with an off center record it would be doing so continuously. Of course it is another matter whether this ... | |
| Spindle oil El, I'm not familiar with your table but once had a Technics linear table with direct drive and a motor driven linear arm. They were all the rage back in the early eighties but fell out of favor with the high end crowd after proponents of belt dri... |