jerkface
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| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Yes and if you can manage, cold press the ends, no solderBJC will assemble your cables for you, doing an ultrasonic cold-weld instead of soldering the ends. Considering I *have* to use either fork or ring terminals on the speaker side, seems mo... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? However, it has been consistently shown that trained listeners - those who were instructed in advance what to listen for - were more likely to be able to detect differences. See, to me, audiophiles are people who have already trained themselves... | |
| Do no harm to a signal! Does this mean..... Inductance is a factor of surface area and distance. Wide spaced heavy gauge conductors can be highly inductive. Similarly, small gauge spaced will be low capacitance. Agree. Didn’t want to overload him with information, though. Was just trying to... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @cleeds I’ve had similar experiences as an ABX subject. I still think blind testing has value, even though it’s not likely to be of much use to audiophiles. Disagree. The more discerning ears of the audiophile are far more useful in ABX tests.... | |
| Do no harm to a signal! Does this mean..... Does anyone understand what happens to an analogue signal when it flows thru a speaker cable?? Sure. The resistance, capacitance, and inductance of the speaker cable all have effects on the signal. How dramatic those effects are depend on the... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? My only complaint about ABX is that, if the source material does not change, ear fatigue sets in VERY, very quickly. I volunteered for an ABX speaker wire test at Klipsch HQ back in '06. The first five rounds, I was perfect. 5 for 5 identifying... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... A more likely explanation for cables sounding different, based on what I've heard, is that the amp and speakers are more sensitive to the miniscule LC and R values than the math would have us believeThat's an explanation I can probably buy into ... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Yes Even when the amp has isolation feet on it and the speakers are sitting on a concrete floor, which is the ultimate vibration sink? Asking in earnest, not to be argumentative. | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Skin effect is rarely an issue. Inductance can be. Only reason I bothered with the math on skin effect is because so many of these esoteric high-end cables do random weird stuff like adding dielectrics to "phase-correct" the signal. Of course,... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Can you provide a picture of your setup? Sure. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0JH7A2XsAcv-Zj?format=jpg&name=smallMats and interconnects are still en route, hence why I haven't powered them up yet. | |
| Power cable education needed It won't do anything about the noise the line picked up from the power station to the outlet you plug it into Yup. Which is why money is better spent on an isolation unit like the Tripp Lite IS500 I use for my audio system. Nothing like a big... | |
| Power cable education needed So then can you please explain to me what these giant power cords bring to the table? I purchased a couple and I couldn’t notice a difference. I’ve got good hearing and approximately 50 K in my system. I’m trying to figure out what a $10,000 Pow... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... Wouldn’t the wire at least get warm if you played it at a continual hundred watts? Report thisTwo part response here:1) These are 25-watt monoblocks going into horn-loaded loudspeakers. So they will never see 100 watts. Not even at peaks. 2) H... | |
| Power cable education needed Let me try though, if you had a giant power cord, like half inch thick wires And a circuit blew inside the appliance it doesn’t matter how big the wire is before the fuse...It’s not like the large wire is holding a huge amount of electrical cur... | |
| Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad... running a short piece like that is going to act more like a light bulb than a speaker wire. I don't get how you arrive at this conclusion. Again, 12 inches of 18 gauge wire adds a net of 0.006 ohms of additional resistance to the signal. Also... |