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| can you help me narrow my speaker cables short list please? Buy a roll of white Techflex. | |
| The molecular level explanation of "cable burn-in" An anecdote: Back in the 70s I was charged with manufacturing and calibration of microvolemtric lab equipment to the 6th place (microgram by mass). We decided to mold the bodies of these handheld piupetters and dilutors out of PFVD, a remarkably ... | |
| Speaker Cable Right on, skeotical. Canare StarQuad is similar, and great for less-important surround speakers' long lengths and other budget-sensitive projects. For affordable premade I have respect for Kimber's 4/8TC. No experience with the MUCH-cheaper to ma... | |
| How Is This Possible? Must be Counterfeits Let me tell you my story wt Chinese clones. Three years ago I bought some Chinbese Odin for $150 for a friend's system. Of course it sounded "okay", looking mysteriously close to the OEM. But the main body's plastic wouldn't flex as does pure FEP... | |
| SPEAKER CABLE OR INTERCONNECT Deciding cable change priority can be a tough one, as there are likely many variables. That said, as ArgentPur.audio for almost three years, I can report that EVERYONE who has demo'ed my speaker cables has remarked re their substantial improvement... | |
| Cable upgrades Thought I'd chime in here, James. First, although it is usually VERY important to reasonably match lengths of speaker cables, there is almost no legitimacy to matching lengths of well-designed interconnects...especially noise-limiting balanced one... | |
| Why Rhodium? Since rhodium is indeed a fairly poor conductor, my assumption is that it is used to plate silver so as to prevent the dulled appearance of silver oxide...EXACTLY like cheap gold plating is used on myriad copper products to control oxidation. The ... | |
| Opinions on the Electrocompaniet ECM1 MK2 Yes. I had dinner with the tech director of Electro at the NYAS last fall, wherein he assured me that the ECM 1 Mk6, although internally reconfigured, uses the same Class A analog output stage and Cirrus chipset as the original, as it's so good. S... | |
| Upgrading Verity Audio Parsifal Encores towards Anniversary status I should add that I contacted Audiosmiles (UK) re their triangular shaped twin super tweeters that have both gain and cross settings, so pergaps are more likely to combine smoothly with Encores than fixed-forward-facing Aperions or fixed-gain Town... | |
| Unfair Competition: Orchard Audio Bosc Monoblocks vs. Pass Labs XA30.8 The thread-head's comment that the Stark's midrange disn't seem as fleshed out as his Pass amp is intriguing. I wonder if that Class A "magic" or the possibility that because the Starks sound FLATTER that one hears less midrange because there's no... | |
| Unfair Competition: Orchard Audio Bosc Monoblocks vs. Pass Labs XA30.8 This is getting interesting. After hearing the more open top octave of the Starkrimson monos compared to my old Aleph 2 monos...with NO compromise in harmonic richness nor soundstage depth, I sold the Alephs, their Nordost SPM 8' cables, as well R... | |
| Cable Burn In Sorry that I don't have the time nor bandwith to argue the old stuff re expectation bias, blind studies, anecdotal experience. I CAN tell you that in the 70's I had extensive experience with molded and machined very expensive PVDF (fluorocarbon) s... | |
| My First DIY Power Cable Years back I provided to a few hundred A'goners cheap all-Teflon 13 and 11AWG power cable kits, and star-ground power boxes using the fireproof Belden 83000 series starquad iterations. Indeed, the included shielding was useless, but the fluorocarb... | |
| Can cables have a shelf life? Here's a weird one I learned in the 70's when playing with uber-expensive molded PVDF for laboratory apparatus. Fluorocarbons, although damned inert, can have a stressed state from tooling or molding. This stress will be self-healing over perhaps ... | |
| Unfair Competition: Orchard Audio Bosc Monoblocks vs. Pass Labs XA30.8 Thanks for the comparison. I'm just about to give the Orchard monos a trial, deciding that 600w idle and an hour warmup is just becoming burdensome with my pair of Aleph 2 monos. I'm unwilling to give up their richness and very deep stage. But bei... |