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| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Baloney - there is no requirement for an earth ground. There is no "shunting" of noise necessary unless the power supply is letting power line HF noise through - this is unlikely. My transport has no earth ground and it is superb. | |
| Silver DIY Interconnects Capacitance of 45 pF/foot is a bit high IME. I prefer wires with 3-4 pF/foot. The detail is much better on ALL systems. However, low capacitance is not by itself sufficient. To make a world-class cable, you also need good metallurgy (as Sean menti... | |
| Speaker Cables? Your input kindly requested. Mikesinger hit the nail on the head. If you are having HF harshness, the IC's will most likely solve this, not the speaker cables. | |
| Silver DIY Interconnects Sean - I have heard the difference between "fine silver" and 99.99% and it is noticable to me in my system. If your system is not as resolving, you might not notice. Crump tells me that he has 6-nines silver and it is even better... | |
| Silver DIY Interconnects Jewelry store silver will be "fine silver", which is 99.95% pure at best. Much lower purity than that used in most high-end cables. | |
| Silver DIY Interconnects I agree with Sean, 22 gauge will be fine, however, smaller is better when it comes to silver. Silver's skin-effect is more pronounced than copper.Be aware that you might be able to achieve some of the parametrics, such as RLC, but your DIY IC will... | |
| Upsampling DVD player Believe it or not the $139 Pioneer player advertised in Audio Advisor is really an outstanding upsampler. It just needs a couple of minor power supply upgrades. I know a guy who does this (as well as selling speakers and crossover components) - he... | |
| A new cd transport I have done shootouts with modified MF A3 and Perpetual Tech P-3A. I found both of them to benefit from low-jitter transports. The de-jitter circuits are really not that effective. I do digital mods to reduce jitter, so I have transports with very... | |
| Upgrade AVP or buy outbd DAC for improved 2 ch. I have an AVP in my reference sytem, as well as a Mark Levinson #38 Pre with my mods. I have compared the AVP to passive line-stages that I built to see how good it was. The interesting thing is that the stock AVP is actually very close to a line-... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? I do not buy the capacitance argument. My cords add only a few hundred pF of capacitance, yet they are 10X lower inductance than the ROMEX in the wall. Until you have heard a really low inductance cord for yourself, you cannot know what the improv... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Redbeard - I suggest you measure the current in your power cords. I suspect that you will find spectral components higher than 20 kHz. Current, not Voltage ...Duh. Unless you have an expensive power supply that is designed properly in your compone... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Depends on the dampers and their position with respect to the conductors. In general, adding parallel (shunt) capacitance is not a problem, but adding series inductance is. If you had an LCR meter this would tell you whether you are degrading it o... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Here is my explanation - and the theory behind my cable designs:Amplifiers demand current from the power-line when the capacitors in their power-supplies become momentarily discharged due to high-current transients in the music signal. This discha... | |
| what speaker cables would you use? Check-out the series of speaker cable reviews by Bob Neill on:http://www.positive-feedback.com | |
| Upper midrange glare prominence -- I believe it's your source. If you were to use the CDP as a transport and get a Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC modified by Dan Wright and a good digital cable, this would add a lot of sweetness to the midrange and achieve better detal overall, no... |