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| UP-OCC solid core copper for speaker cable After various unsuccessful trials with various wire including Belden 9497 to connect my midrange and high frequencies horn drivers to their passive crossover, I've settled on Neotech UP-OCC solid core 16Ga with teflon insulation. The wire is quite... | |
| Cable advice Also it depends on the architecture of the system. I can use a certain interconnect between DAC and preamp, then another between preamp and active crossover; but between active crossover and amplifiers I use the same cables everywhere. I wouldn't ... | |
| Cable advice Power cables are something else and I would think that a full loom is probably not a good idea. All the power cables I have behave very differently from one electronic to another; they're all used where they sound best and swapping them around mak... | |
| Cable advice It's almost impossible to answer that question; it depends mostly on the cables and the synergy with the system. I have some cables that have a rather strong "flavor" to them; for example one that softens / warms up the sound. If I use just one be... | |
| has anyone tried chinese cables? I've tried many of the fake "Odin" cables and still use their power cords and speaker cable. Most of them are really good. Now I ordered some Xangsane pure silver solid core bulk interconnect cable (Xangsane SP-9001Ag) as a few of my friends have... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions I’m a newbie as well! Slowly, very slowly learning... It’s a vast world, with many periods / styles / composers, then of course you have the many interpretations / directors / orchestras (they can be VERY different) modern instruments vs ancient i... | |
| Silver interconnect cable from Xsangsane - please advise on plugs? @lak the cable has two square/flat solid core conductors made of pure silver, one silver plated stranded copper drain wire, and the shielding mesh is also silver plated copper. I wouldn't buy a silver plated cable, specially not at that price (whi... | |
| Power cable break in? I can't comment on you particular cable but yes, cables do break in and power cables do as well. I had one of my power cables that sounded bright and upfront for the first couple hours then became dull and with bloated bass and that stayed for a w... | |
| Buy a pair of ten year old $40,000 speakers for $4,000 or new ones at that price point? While I honestly doubt you could find 40K speakers for 4K, I would say that speaker design hasn't advanced much (if at all) during the last 10 years, and I would remind you that something like a Siemens Bionor (old cinema speakers from the first h... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In @ozzy my room is very peculiar which of course only makes the matter worse: it's a long shallow rectangle, divided by pillars that create four "spaces" (living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen) but everything is open. For practical reasons the ... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In My speakers are fully horn loaded, with a 90 degrees directivity radius, in a room that is arguably too small for them. I insist on keeping them because they're a 20 years DIy development and they are "my babies" plus I'm just renting the place an... | |
| Joseph Audio: Perspectives and Pearls I have heard the Perspectives at a dealer’s showroom. We initially came for a friend to listen to another pair of speakers and the dealer had us sit and listen to the JA driven by a huge The Gryphon integrated. Well, I was shocked: easily one of ... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I’ve only had two class A amp, and one was just "strongly biased into class A" One was a Musical Fidelity A100X integrated. That one I kept only two weeks: it was getting so damn hot after about 30 minutes of use that I was being paranoid all ... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? @dadawada it's all about money, for you skeptics, right? All I read is "expensive cables", "it's your money", "a fool and his money", etc etc... looks like the wallet is as tight as the ears canals, for you folks. More seriously, had you ever made... | |
| What do you like and dislike about vintage Western Electric cables? I have not tried the WE wire, nor am I planning to. But I wouldn't expect it to be fantastic. After reading a lot about Belden 9497 wire and its supposedly great synergy with horn speakers (which I use) I had completely rewired my speakers with ... |