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| AudioQuest RF Stoppers This is probably noise from your amp. Have you replaced the tubes lately?If you have to put your ear up to the tweeters to hear it, this is normal. If it is loud enough to hear from the listening position, you have something else goin on. May be R... | |
| BEST CHOICE OF INTERCONNECTS Your equipment is too good to consider anything but Nordost Valhalla, Purenote, Sahuaro, Acoustic Zen and Empirical Audio | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Sean wrote:If one could resonate a cable that introduced a perfect non-reactive 75 ohm load at that frequency, you would end up with no standing waves.There may be no standing waves to a pure sine wave at that frequency, but you would certainly ex... | |
| un-screwing acoustic zen cables Locking RCA's are not all they are cracked-up to be. | |
| Copper v. Silver Michael - how do you solder platinum wire? | |
| Copper v. Silver The superiority of silver has more to do with the crystal structure than the fact that it is slightly more conductive. Also for designers like me that use bare wires, the oxides are less of a problem with silver than with copper. I believe that it... | |
| Another look at directionality in cables Marty at BFS discovered some interesting things about my cables in his system. As a result, I believe it is very system-dependent which direction sounds best and therefore I now recommend that both directions be tried in each situation. In general... | |
| After Market Power Cables - Gold or Snake Oil? M_Cassar - there is one other possible benefit of a power cable and that is filtering. This filtering can be only on the ground wire or the current-carrying wires. Ground-wire filtering makes a lot of sense, since there should not be any AC curren... | |
| After Market Power Cables - Gold or Snake Oil? Checkmate110 - You are correct, the total inductance from the panel is what matters. | |
| Is High End Cable Really Worth It and What Brand High-end wires do measure better and they sound better particularly for longer lengths. If you want to see some measurements and analysis, see the Audio FAQ page at this website:http://www.empiricalaudio.com | |
| RCA to XLR adapter, advantages of special boxes ?? Your signal from the CDP is a single-ended signal. In order to get a differential signal for the AES/EBU specification, you need two signals, one non-inverted and one inverted. The box that you speak of generates these two differential signals fro... | |
| After Market Power Cables - Gold or Snake Oil? 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 discharge condition must be quickly recharged from the power-line, thr... | |
| Best Speaker Cable Connectors I like the spades from Vampirewire.comDirrect gold-plated copper. | |
| Why Aren't All Cables Pre-Burned In? I plan to break-in my Empirical Audio cables as well, but I would have to delay shipment of them at this time. I get the feeling that folks want them quickly rather than broken-in. It only takes about 10-20 hours in a system anyway. | |
| Best Speaker Cable Connectors A well soldered or crimped Spade-Lug will always be lower resistance than bare wire, bananas or pins. It it what binding posts were designed for. |