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| Speaker cables for Maggie 3.5s http://www.positive-feedback.comhas a series of reviews by Bob Neill on speaker cables. | |
| Long IC/Short Speaker or Short IC/ Long Speaker Zoya wrote:If you're not using balanced IC, it should be as short as possible. Otherwise, it will act like antennaNot exactly. Short is better for both balanced and unbalanced because they both have capacitance and the low-pass filtering effect is... | |
| Long IC/Short Speaker or Short IC/ Long Speaker One data point is my analysis on this subject at the Audio FAQ page at:http://www.empiricalaudio.comDepends entirely on the relative quality of your cables. | |
| cable suggestions for new system If you are not looking to spend a lot, you can get good results with boldercables.com Nitro's or Bogdan - see the interconnects on the home pageIf you want to expose all of the music and make it a religious experience, then Acoustic Zen or Empiric... | |
| Clarification of biwire, biwire shotgun, etc..... I believe that your definitions are as close as anything I have heard. | |
| FYI: Goertz Zobel Networks Non-polarized capacitors are polarized, so you can orient them one way and get one sound / reading and flip them around and get different sound / readings.Really? I guess I have learned something then. I just had Andy Bartha, who does mods over fo... | |
| Speaker cable suggestions Here is a recent PF shootout with Audience:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue5/empirical7.htm | |
| Excellent Audience Customr Service Seems to me that it would be better if there were no service calls at all..... This is the best service. | |
| advice on brightness Inexpensive wires can easily cause HF sibilance, particularly silver wires. In order to eliminate this, you will need continuous cast copper or silver or what I call "Perfect Crystal" wires. There are no cables except maybe some Harmonic Tech that... | |
| Speaker cable suggestions You can get a better sound with single-wire and decent low-inductance jumpers, and it will cost less. Most reviewers are shying away from biwire now. My theory is that the reason that biwire caught on so strongly was that a few speakers actually b... | |
| Balanced interconnect from DAC to preamp... The primary advantage of balanced signalling is the common-mode noise rejection. If you have ground-loops that are causing buzzing or whistling, balanced IC's can help if inserted in the right places.It is a common misconception that you can run b... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started ChrisVH - a question. Do you have patents on the cable designs that you are referring to?Seems to me the right to litigate intellectual property is based on having a patent first. Otherwise, it is just a trade secret, which have the nasty habit of... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started subaruguru wrote:The advantage of this Belden is that it's shielded and all-Teflon dielectric.The shielding I see as a disadvantage, the Teflon is good. There is no scientific reason to shield either power cords or speaker cables unless you are wa... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started If you want to meet code requirements and have a really low-inductance path to your components, particularly your amps, then this is what I would recommend (several have followed this advice and are astonished by the improvement):Buy three wires, ... | |
| Speaker Cables Zaikesman makes a very salient point here, that it is very dependent on both amp and speaker combination and on personal tastes. I personally do not like the sound of Cardas, but I find the AZ stuff very good and similar to my own designs. When yo... |