westcoastaudiophile
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| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found dear lak, cable, unlike SS / tube circuit, tubes, does not break-in, they age. aged cable performance is always worse than new. there is some interconnect performance improvement after tightening connections, mostly due to contact area increase an... | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables I use china made cables for DIY designs.. original china (non brand) cable are never done properly, terminations are not properly soldered / attached, braids of wires not all connected etc.. cables and some terminals as DIY materials are pretty go... | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? I use stereo microscope with led illumination, currently Carl Zeiss STEMI 305 w/ 10x, and 25x oculars. It helped me to root cause “funny sound” issues, including dirt on moving magnets, not perfect needle azimuth etc. | |
| Do speakers need to be re-broken in? @mclinnguy not sure if break-in at less than five watts will do anything, but older speakers always is good to restore / check: 1) Sweep speakers freq. for resonances at 50% max power using external audio sine generator connected directly to amp ... | |
| DB-510 0.7m Oyaide BNC Cable? @fthompson251 I use many Oyade cables/wires in my system, all Japan made, excellent quality! Being professional in high speed interconnects / circuitry, I see this cable is qualified for 5Gb interconnect, and uses advantage dielectric / metals. Ph... | |
| 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... |