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| Vandersteen 3ASigs amp? According to a past Stereophile article, he uses McCormack. When I met him in person a while back, he was using Quicksilvers with his own system. Of course, I sure this is all subject to change. | |
| What gear do Audio manufacturers use at home? When I met Richard Vandersteen a few months back, he indicated that he used his own speakers(whatever he had on hand---spares) and Quick Silver tube amps. He had no comment after that! He certainly wouldn't comment on speaker wire or interconnects... | |
| Speaker Cable for Vandy 3A Sigs - Suggestions I have the same set up and use Tara Lab Master generation II speaker cables. They are smooth and detailed. I prefered these to a lot of other more expensive cables. They do have a slight, and I do mean slight, leaness in the upper mids but, to me,... | |
| Cable directionality Audioengr- I appreciate your information and trust me, I will get a handle on the "Why." I think we have been engineers for about the same length of time. I graduated a ME in 1975. I didn't learn much about electricity in school and have been in i... | |
| Vandy sub owners-crossovers for 2WQ Thanks guys. I noticed in the owners manuals I received with both subs that the section about the filters was repeated twice. One section said next value down period and the other said try one up, one right on and one above. I mean two complete se... | |
| Cable directionality Audioengr---Well, I just had one of the EE's stop by and we had a nice little chat. It convinced me of basically what you are saying and actually created a few more questions. As stated previously in my post, I will officially acknowledge that you... | |
| Cable directionality Audioengr--- well, I didn't get to talk to the EE's here at work today, duty called. However, I will. I still don't understand this so I will get one of my troopers to explain it up close and personal. With house wiring, the neutrals are connected... | |
| Cable directionality Zaikesman---Amen brother! | |
| Cable directionality Audioengr, So, lets take a 60HZ signal and run it down the "Signal carrying" wire. Since this would be the same as a 60hz sine wave, are you trying to say that the positive half cycle goes down one wire and the negative half cycle comes back on th... | |
| Cable directionality John, But what if the shield is only connected at one end as some other folks are saying? Now, how does flow occur? I agree with the "Possibility" of potential on the ground circuit but I also know that electricity takes the path of least resistan... | |
| Cable vs. Electronics: biggest bang for the buck Bomarc, One tiny little problem. In the Floyd Toole article, it seems that he is out to justify the means (so to speak{er}.) It is a know fact that frequency response alone can be adjusted to reflect a "Certain" sound as in laid back or up front. ... | |
| Cable directionality Geeze, Here we go with the signal return, etc. The signal returns on the same line it went down in the first place. It is AC, therefore, it alternates according to frequency. What has the ground got to do with the signal wire other than it helps i... | |
| Cable vs. Electronics: biggest bang for the buck Sean, I agree with you as far as signal degradation. We are on the same page with a few semantics. However, I don't believe we are to the point where we can measure performance with any amount of true certainty. Just read a couple of issues of Ste... | |
| Cable directionality Orbeck, Tara Labs is using this design with their isolated floating ground shield(ISM). However, this is not the same shield that runs with the cable that is connected to the outer portion of the RCA jack. Tara uses a separate shield that is suppo... | |
| Cable directionality Rich, A lot of cables are terminated with both ends of the shield connected. I have a couple of pairs of Tara Labs that are and have seen others. Recently, I have seen where manufacturers are advertising in their white pages that the shield is con... |