Well, it's all there, in front of you, everyone. Anyone with a mind to, can come to understand most of what I have been (patiently) trying to explain.
Some aspects of Bybee's technology have been omitted, specifically by me, because either I don't know much more, OR I am not allowed to tell you.
In summary, the Bybee devices are neither ferrite, nor can they be made by amateurs with customary materials. They are not fake or hand made, but consist of relatively sophisticated components, put together in final form, by Jack Bybee.
Thinking about these devices as an electronic technician or engineer would do, will get you nowhere, because these devices use quantum mechanical processes to work. The OBVIOUS parameters lead nowhere. For example, there is no significant resistance, inductance or capacitance, except what occurs naturally as a wire might have, added to the device. Now I stand behind this and please remember that I have known Jack Bybee for about 15 years, I have seen the devices without their protective covering. I have seen several generations of these devices developed over the past 15 years, just like automobile models, like Honda, etc. I have measured myself and have independent measurements made by AMES Research Labs about 15 years ago in my possession, including noise reduction. And finally, I actually listened to them and was impressed, BEFORE I even knew who Jack Bybee was, and still use these devices in my audio system, today.
Some aspects of Bybee's technology have been omitted, specifically by me, because either I don't know much more, OR I am not allowed to tell you.
In summary, the Bybee devices are neither ferrite, nor can they be made by amateurs with customary materials. They are not fake or hand made, but consist of relatively sophisticated components, put together in final form, by Jack Bybee.
Thinking about these devices as an electronic technician or engineer would do, will get you nowhere, because these devices use quantum mechanical processes to work. The OBVIOUS parameters lead nowhere. For example, there is no significant resistance, inductance or capacitance, except what occurs naturally as a wire might have, added to the device. Now I stand behind this and please remember that I have known Jack Bybee for about 15 years, I have seen the devices without their protective covering. I have seen several generations of these devices developed over the past 15 years, just like automobile models, like Honda, etc. I have measured myself and have independent measurements made by AMES Research Labs about 15 years ago in my possession, including noise reduction. And finally, I actually listened to them and was impressed, BEFORE I even knew who Jack Bybee was, and still use these devices in my audio system, today.
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I was referring to the thread, not the people. I will be glad help you out if you just name the person who is holding the gun to your head (or, since you are British, the knife to your throat) and forcing you to read this thread.
I for one am still waiting for someone to come out with a balanced phono cartridge.
John
My apologies. Your challenging of my statement caused me to ignore what I was taught and look into this further (something, I'm sure, others on this topic would be well placed to do now and again - I jest, I jest 😉).
In conductors, if I have understood correctly, it is quite literally the vibration of ions, due to their thermal energy, that causes the motion of the free electrons in the medium to be impeded - i.e. the higher the temperature of the medium, the greater the resistance to current flow.
Theoretically, a conductor may become superconducting (i.e. exhibiting zero impedance to the flow of electrons) when the thermal energy of latice ions is zero and hence this interference ceases.
Semiconductors, ionized fluids, plasma and a whole host of other exceptions to this rule probably exist.
Slightly happier now SY? 🙄 If not, please enlighten us further - stating something is incorrect and not stating a correction is terribly bad form old boy.
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All phono cartridges are naturally balanced. They have a + & - output for each channel, there is no ground. It's down to how the thing is wired out from the record deck & to the pre-amp or phono stage that usually makes the thing single ended.
Change the wiring & get yourself (or build) a phono stage with balanced inputs & you are laughing 😀
Apologies for going off topic, as if i'm the only one
Well, for that matter, then all single-ended output transformers are balanced, as long as you isolate the signal from the ground.
John
Hi John, please take a look at this link & then click on 06X. Then ask yourself why this phono stage happens to have balanced inputs 🙂 It does also have single ended inputs, however, wire it right from the record deck & you can use the balanced connectors.
Bests, Mark.
What's the difference between using the the three-pin "balanced" inputs and using the "single-ended" input in conjunction with the ground post?
John
I should imagine that you'd get the advantages of balanced inputs generally, less noise, hum etc & a quieter background with less external interference.
I have said enough, too much off topic stuff 🙄 Back to la la land i guess 😀
I have said enough, too much off topic stuff 🙄 Back to la la land i guess 😀
When you use the single-ended inputs, the "-" leads from the cartridge go to the preamp's ground, meaning the inputs are unbalanced and don't offer as much common-mode rejection as the balanced inputs.
se
I am impressed that there are any CNT related commercial products at all. I imagine that in most applications, at the current time, CNT devises would be quite squirrelly.
Besides, even if a device where to happen to be a quantum resistor or quantum conductor (depending on how you prefer to describe it), I fail to see how putting one in the signal path of an amplifier could in anyway improve sound. Generally, stuff in the signal path, although sometimes necessary, makes things worse. Even the air between a listener and a live musician, although absolutely necessary for the sound, degrades it over distance. I could filter some stuff, but there are a lot of cheaper ways to do that and best to design in a way that minimizes it in the first place.🙄
I really don't understand what you mean "speed". Are you suggesting that the ballistic transport of electrons in the presumed CNT contained in a Bybee quantum purifier somehow speeds up the signal, separating signal from noise and therefore has some meaningful impact on music quality?
Please expand on this. Nothing in my knowledge, the wealth of information in this thread 😛 or the article I read, suggests anything of the sort, and frankly, that would make no sense whatsoever.
The screen of the cable shielding the input pair of +/- cables. Think of the tonearm, they are usually made of some form of metal or conductive stuff. That tends to shield the microscopic signal given off by the cartridge. The cables exit under the deck usually & it's here that in most installations the two "-" connections are joined & connected to the screen of a dual phono lead.
If you connect them to the hot & cold of a balanced lead (you'll need two for left & right) & ground the screen of the balanced lead to the metalwork of the tonearm you effectively have a balanced input.
E2A:- Actually you may not need to ground the screen on the balanced lead, not sure as i have never tried it, you will at the phono stage end obviously 😀
Again apologies for leaving the proper topic 😕
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I too fail to see how adding anything to the signal path can remove noise in the signal band. This contradicts information theory.
Does an LC filter reduce noise or remove an unwanted frequency (depending on topology)? Have you put something in series to do this?
OK, 'speed' to me is the time it takes to go from point A to point B. You can reduce the time by shortening the distance, OR by speeding up the electrons. However, EVERYBODY knows that the 'drift velocity' of an individual electron in a piece of wire 'appears' to be very slow. That is called 'Drude Theory' Quantum mechanics gives a somewhat different answer.
Any filter can remove out-of-band noise - however that does nothing to improve in-band SNR.
Likewise, filtering the signal band does not increase in-band SNR as any loss in noise power inherently is a loss in signal power.
The only way to increase in-band SNR is to have prior knowledge of what is the signal and what is the noise - these devices do not, hence contradict information theory.
Likewise, filtering the signal band does not increase in-band SNR as any loss in noise power inherently is a loss in signal power.
The only way to increase in-band SNR is to have prior knowledge of what is the signal and what is the noise - these devices do not, hence contradict information theory.
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