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| Directionality of wire This just in! Are Anti Cables an example of a one man operation? Maybe. In any case this is the Anti Cable statement on wire direction. Let’s call it Exhibit B. This is taken from the FAQ page of the Anti Cables website. Since the Anti Cables are ... | |
| Directionality of wire If Chris has more than one fuse in his system, one reason why he might dismiss the difference between fuse directions as small is because some or all of the other fuses are in the wrong direction, hurting the sound, thus reducing the effect of fli... | |
| Tonearm microphonics Tonearms are designed to have a resonant frequency around 12 Hz or so that they can't be excited by speaker generated acoustic waves. Tonearms are, however, subject to very low frequency seismic type vibration coming up from the floor which conta... | |
| Directionality of wire But the OP specifically excluded single ended cables from the discussion. That’s why he also included fuses in the discussion. Fuses, as far as I know, are not single ended. The OP is discussing wire per se. | |
| Directionality of wire It’s always great when some excitable new person comes along and starts a new thread on wire directionality, especially when he is a skeptic. It’s a little like telling the same joke over and over to someone with a memory disorder - even though he... | |
| Directionality of wire FsonicsmithMy hunch is that 95% of IC "manufacturers", particularly the one man operations of under $500 IC’s mark directionality because they think it lends the appearance of technical sophistication and legitimacy."Question: Why on Earth would a... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? david_ten OP352 posts07-29-2017 9:28am@geoffkait and others, Is there a simple or somewhat simple way to figure out mass distribution of a component, other than eyeballing transformer postion(s) and weightier sections and going by felt weight?S... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? That would be true if the mass distribution of the component is uniform. But since mass is often not uniform - such as when a large transformer is located on one side of an amplifier or a motor is located on the side of a turntable - the mass shou... | |
| Looking for cartridge recommendations (after a 20 year hiatus) Dingos ate your baby! | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... Within You and Without You of course was a George Harrison song, George was learning sitar from Rabi Shankar at the time. The sitar also popped up on Paint it Black (the sitar was played by Brian Jones (who one assumes was not adverse to ingesting... | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Actually the 6 degrees of freedom is a misnomer since it’s obvious that for the horizontal plane there are an infinite number of directions, not just the two X and Z directions. Which explains why roller bearings are so effective for the horizonta... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... On Dark Side of the Moon the bit with the guy running around a circular track and breathing heavily is pretty cool and has terrific soundstaging. You could just put that on REPEAT. Oh, also the bells and glockenspiel! | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Obviously there are vibrations below the frequency speakers can deliver. Those are the seismic vibrations. Obviously it’s better to isolate the speakers along with everything else, no?"I said this would be fun but I didn't say for who." 😃 | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Tapping noise and 60 Hz noise is not why we employ isolation. Those are examples of higher frequency vibration and induced vibration. One needs to address induced noise, airborne vibration AND low frequency seismic type vibration. Even solid state... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... Psychedelic music is somewhat of a misnomer since the music is not necessarily linked to drug use, probably very seldom, or even a drug lifestyle nor would the group or singer had to have taken LSD or any other drug to write or play psychedelic mu... |