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| Side Surround Speaker Cable Advise Please? If you are handy, you can make an outstanding SS cable using Belden 9309 or 9315 from alliedelec.comAbout $70 for 100 feet. It will blow-away anything commercial up to $400-$500. | |
| DIY interconnects Check out Jon's IC recipes at:http://www.geocities.com/jonrisch/index2.htmSilver is better IMO, so that is all I use for IC's. Air dielectric with no insulation is also superior. | |
| cables 101? The brands and differant sounds? Sean - Dunlavy's patent describes an 18-twisted-pair cable I believe. The inner 7 pairs are cabled or twisted and then the next layer of pairs is twisted around the first group in the opposite direction. This way the fields from pair to pair inter... | |
| Information on Empirical Audio IC cables I think most of these folks post on audioasylum.com, but someone may notice. | |
| Twisted or Straight? This is really the way to do it. It keeps the grounds pretty much at the same potential and the lengths of each conductor about the same. Ground-loops is the biggest concern when running multiple circuits. | |
| cables 101? The brands and differant sounds? Dunlavy is an interesting story. 10 years ago, I believe that he was a believer in cables and this is obvious from his patent which you can read on the PTO.gov website. However, in the last three years he has been espousing that more expensive cab... | |
| Twisted or Straight? Marakanetz - The di/dt currents in the power cord are what matters. IF it is too inductive, the drops can be in the Volts, not mVolts. I have one of the lowest inductance cords on the market and it is getting rave reviews when used with power amps... | |
| help with spade connectors Best option is to reterminate with spade-lugs from Vampirewire:http://www.vampiriwire.comJust cut the old ones off, strip the ends and crimp the new ones on with a large vise-grip. | |
| Spkr Cables . Can you use 2 diff brands at once? Even if they cables are the same type, they really should be the same length. This is so that the loading on the two amplifier channels is the same.As for mixing and matching: If you are on a budget, then using one for the treble and the other for... | |
| Why Expensive power Cables when Romex behind Wall? Psychicanimal - Just because a cord makes a difference does not mean that the last 6 feet is somehow magical. It still has to do with the inductance of the entire run to the panel. The last 6 feet reduces the overall resistance and inductance comp... | |
| Which worse- long I/C of speaker run I have done extensive study on this subject, including thousands of SPICE simulations. The conclusion of this study is that optimized systems will have 2-3X longer speaker cables than interconnects. This is independent of price-point and performan... | |
| cables 101? The brands and differant sounds? There are some general observations. Transparent and MIT tend to roll-off the highs due to the networks, but have very strong bass unless you go for the reference versions, which are quite good in most respects. Goertz laminated ribbons, Nordost V... | |
| Twisted or Straight? Close spacing is the key to low inductance. Twisting two conductors together causes then to be in intimate contact over the length and therefore will result in lower inductance. Parallel wires, if in tight contact will also have low inductance. It... | |
| Biggest Improvement Speaker Cable Or Interconnects Based on experience with my own cables in customer environments, the IC's make the biggest difference, followed by the speaker cables. However, this really depends on the IC's. My IC's have extremely low capacitance (3.8 pF/foot), so they make a h... | |
| Why Expensive power Cables when Romex behind Wall? "It's in the very last feet that the electric particles/waveform gets shaped prior to entering the audio component. As such, there will be a profound influence on sonics."This is nonsense and technically incorrect. Just because some saleman says d... |