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| Faint buzz in speakers "simply make sure all lights with dimmers are turned off while listening” "I noticed that sometimes it's a light rheostat (sorry, dimmer switch) making noise in the circuit. However, it's usually a cheap charger that is the culprit in the circuit... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found @samureyex ..in your cable break-in experiment :-) assuming you didn’t change eardrums + and speakers! cables are degrading performance with time, resistance increases, electrical length (derivative of phase velocity) increases, leakage increases... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found "Good lord these 2 cables are blowing my mind." yeah, “mind” could be the biggest variable. | |
| Faint buzz in speakers @jmfinney I had exactly the same issue! After replacing US brand pre+amp with Accuphase C2420+AD2820 + P4500/A48, such noise disappeared! | |
| Speaker cables with good timbre @audiogabby KimberKable TC12 or even TC8.. opens al mids/high freq! | |
| Furutech 's Project V1 Power Cord.....question. @garebear "the right cable for my amp" please explain what right cable for you means. | |
| Wilson Alexia 2 lacking some bass @greenspyder718 how do you drive mono-amps, what is your preamp? also, what is sound level you think bass is lacking? | |
| Power cord @nasaman "Ferrari or Lamborghini?” OP Q sounds more like: to buy Ferrari class Steering wheel for Ford escort/toyota/etc., and then to report better car performance! @conrads1 "Looking at spending around $1500 2 m audioquest or Nordost” Why? | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. @ghdprentice "Anyone familiar with the term “ lively” as applied to turntables?” Yes! I compared the same soundtrack in dig and vinyl.. dig is a lil dead! only vinyl gives sense of live music! I agree analog sound reproduction path has some cha... | |
| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? @lanx0003 "Japanese domestic models typically come with a fixed voltage setting specifically for the Japanese market, which is 100V AC. “ correct, the same units as sold in US/EU are configured for 100V AC internally, and marked accordingly at the... | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner congrats with finding your audiophile happiness formulae! I see your new cables have RF clamps, closer to IEC conn side (correct use). Unless your original PC is defective (out of spec), you most likely deal with high freq. noise issue... | |
| DarTzeel’s new direction @lynn_olson for ideal non reflective response cable characteristic impedance must match driver and receiver impedances.. we have to choices for coax 50/75Ohms. problem with RCA is a connecting low output impedance drivers (pre/phono/cd etc) to hig... | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner PC “upgrades” sometimes are higher resistance cables vs. original ones, benefiting in RC lower freq. filtering.. I still have no clarity on what (amp, power level, etc) exactly did you “upgrade” from original to “better” and how identify... | |
| 30 yr old speakers- time to replace drivers? @pureclarity sorry, I missed the problem statement in your OP! do you hear distortions, or any kind of sound problems' to fix? If not, why to “fix” anything? Speaker design (fix) can be very challenging, and needed some assessment, x-over sims, m... | |
| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing @kdoerner thanks for listing all of cables in your system! I just tried to understand if you have found improvement of replacing original power cable by “better $$$” one.. Do I understand it correctly from your posts, as You “dunno”? |