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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! almarg,Thanks. Yes, the "sound" of any cable ought to be able to be described in terms of objective characteristics like resistance, inductance, capacitance, length, characteristic impedance, insulation thickness/dielectric absorption, skin effect... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! bigddesign3,Yes, I have found that thinner speaker cable yields a more treble oriented balance. It seems obvious that a thicker cable transfers more energy which is desirable. The thinner cable would transfer less energy at every freq, but perha... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! eziggy,Yes, I totally agree with you about the clarity vs. depth issue, all the examples you gave. To me, the fundamental feature of music, in a single word, is clarity. Music is a language, and we all realize that with language, clarity is ever... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! jetter,I agree that the Sanders amps would be great to try, especially with Roger's 30 day free trial. I never heard them at home, but reviews are very favorable, with sound described as accurate and balanced. This description is similar to that... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC,Please go back to my analogy of the woman in the big overcoat. From your description of the plat 7 speaker cable, it is like the woman in the overcoat--deeper and wider, but less accurate/detailed. But the Odin is like the lean woman the way ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! bigddesign3,Agree on the merits of judging 1 thing at a time, patiently. What 8 gauge speaker cables are you using? Are they giant simple zip cord? What are their sonic characteristics, and how do they compare to other speaker cables you have u... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC,Glad you found my woman analogy useful. In my experience, no. 18 or 16 zip cord has focused the sound much better than any other cable, even the Nordost Frey 2 speaker cable. Many people say that zip cord has deficient QUANTITY of bass, which... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC, I thought of a great analogy that further explains my statement that larger images are characteristic of inaccuracy. Imagine an attractive woman whose waist is 22. She looks great in a perfectly fitted outfit that shows off the details of he... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! minor,Excellent balanced points you make. If we were all wealthy and retired with lots of time, it would be desirable to personally hear everything in own homes. Even then, it is not possible to hear everything, so choices have to be made. How ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! WC,Your description of the Odin speaker cable as having more articulation/separation and more decay than the plat 7 means that the Odin has more accuracy and resolution. But "huge sounding" with larger images is a characteristic of less accurate ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! techno-dude,Good point about Magnepans, also true of ribbons. A fabulous speaker is Eminent Technology, similar to planar magnetics, so reasonable at $2500 direct for their top model. When I heard it with modest electronics, the midrange was SOTA... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! techno_dude,Electrostatics are plugged into the wall to get the voltage that charges the stator panel sandwich. Think of it as a giant thin Oreo cookie. The black outer cookies are the stator charged panel, and the white filling is the electrost... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! thezaks,Which RF testing equipment did you get, and what numbers did you measure? I got the esi24 meter from lessEMF, which measures low freq electric fields, magnetic fields, and RF at 2.4 Ghz. I have measured all rooms in several homes, and it... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! ron17,Yes, dimmer switches create RF and dirty electricity. Watch the short videos on lessEMF.com. Incandescent light bulbs are the best, CFL's the worst, and LED's acceptable. They use the Stetzerizer meters. I bought the competitor to the St... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! thezaks,Power line noise is a major source of frustration, which can turn a great amp into mush. My Shunyata Denali has helped a lot, but there is still variability in the sound--usually clearer in the mid AM when people have gone to work and the... |