Actually some APC terminated short cables for HP's calibration fixtures (22+GHz) are rather expensive.
50's are deafening
A few weeks ago, I rearranged my components for more shelf height above a tube amp.
And noticed the stock power cord had some melted insulation. After checking the other tube amps, I found the same issue.
A friend of mine had always chided me for my cheap power chords, (I'd spent lots on fancy interconnects about 20 years ago, and still used them) [but couldnt see how an ac cord affects conversion to dc],and like me, has plenty of extra stuff around.
Anyways, he sold me a custom 5 metre monocrystal, double shielded power cord, 11 gauge conductors except a ground wire which I would guess is 16 gauge.
Anyways, I cut it , and terminated it into 3 1.5metre power cords, and I heard
No difference.
At least I know the cords won't burn up from normal use.
Now I was suspicious of the Kimber, Cardas, Transparent, and solid 20 gauge silver homemade interconnects connecting my components.
Went to Amazon, and ordered in some gold plate plugs, on some shielded coaxial cable interconnects, in convenient 6 foot lengths, from a company called Monoprice.
They're $10 each with free shipping, if you pass the $25 Amazon purchase threshold, and appear well made, and fit the jacks snugly.
Got them, reconnected everything, and I heard
No difference.
My friend who sold me the Monocrystal power cord says after 50, everyone's (except him) hearing is too shot to hear the difference.
But not everything's the same.
I still prefer my $40 nos vacuum caps in the homemade line level series filter/splitter I use as a crossover.
Even though he maintains all caps sound the same (except his silver in oil Metallized caps).
I can't decide if I'm too old to hear, or to listen.
A few weeks ago, I rearranged my components for more shelf height above a tube amp.
And noticed the stock power cord had some melted insulation. After checking the other tube amps, I found the same issue.
A friend of mine had always chided me for my cheap power chords, (I'd spent lots on fancy interconnects about 20 years ago, and still used them) [but couldnt see how an ac cord affects conversion to dc],and like me, has plenty of extra stuff around.
Anyways, he sold me a custom 5 metre monocrystal, double shielded power cord, 11 gauge conductors except a ground wire which I would guess is 16 gauge.
Anyways, I cut it , and terminated it into 3 1.5metre power cords, and I heard
No difference.
At least I know the cords won't burn up from normal use.
Now I was suspicious of the Kimber, Cardas, Transparent, and solid 20 gauge silver homemade interconnects connecting my components.
Went to Amazon, and ordered in some gold plate plugs, on some shielded coaxial cable interconnects, in convenient 6 foot lengths, from a company called Monoprice.
They're $10 each with free shipping, if you pass the $25 Amazon purchase threshold, and appear well made, and fit the jacks snugly.
Got them, reconnected everything, and I heard
No difference.
My friend who sold me the Monocrystal power cord says after 50, everyone's (except him) hearing is too shot to hear the difference.
But not everything's the same.
I still prefer my $40 nos vacuum caps in the homemade line level series filter/splitter I use as a crossover.
Even though he maintains all caps sound the same (except his silver in oil Metallized caps).
I can't decide if I'm too old to hear, or to listen.
But hermaphroditic connectors are so much fun to play with. Sadly engineers seem to love to use the adaptors as executive toys and slide them across the desk, which scratches the mating face rendering them less wonderful or twiddle them until they break.
I know them as 'sexless' connectors, not sure which is politically correct.
Yes they are fun to play with, BNC adaptors, couplers, T's etc too.
Dan.
The are not 'sexless', they have both sexes, selected by whether the mating thread is 'in' or 'out', so like worms they can be male or female.
Could be both lol.
What gear are you running (such that you are hearing no cable differences) ?.
Dan.
True, but that doesn't make them hermaphroditic, better described as 'Lady Boy' connectors.
Apologies.
Dan.
GR connectors were the first IIRC, I had a lot of those but the adapters sort of make no sense, I mean hard line to RG174 really? BTW Max the term hermaphroditic was preferred as long ago as I can remember.
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I was amused when a filter company that makes the Thingee (or whatever it's called) tried to explain their filters to my friend who's somewhat of an electronics genius. It was too amusing for me to save him from, so I just waited till they were done and asked how'd it go... "I'm surprised they can sell any" was the reply.
However I know for a fact some of their stuff works, in some ways, but has plenty of problems. Now whether or not half of their design or reasoning plays any role... or that they ever explain to anyone anything worth noting....
3 way homemade Onken style speakers, Altec Lansing 511B tweeters, Sansui S-107 midrange horns, 15" Trace Elliot midwoofers.
I'm relying on the natural upper rolloffs of the woofers and midranges, while passively filtering the bass out of the various tube amps at line level, deep bass is handled by a thousand watt plate amp and two 18 " subs (dipole).
Sources are an inexpensive non oversampling dac, and an old Dual turntable with an also old ADC gold cartridge, a vintage Sansui tuner.
Preamplifier is a Sumo Athena .
So certainly not state of the art, but its 2.1 channels sound more 3D and realistic on movies than the Audyssey processed Receiver+Tannoy pro monitors fronts+KEF effects channels.
The only measuring tools besides a sound level meter I have are my ears and a multimeter, so I tend to judge speakers on whether or not voices sound natural, cars sound like cars,etc., plus as a former musician, I expect Paiste, Zildjian, and Sabian cymbals to sound correct, a bass drum shouldn't be a thump; it should have tone.
I've found applause is often shockingly far wrong sounding on a lot of systems, too.
There's a close by coffee shop, where musicians play for pass the hat donations, and this is a good place to recalibrate my ears for what real acoustic instruments sound like in a real space.
So, there may well be differences I can't hear in cables, my concern is how the overall playback compares to a real performance.
(If anyone else likes Bad Company, their latest remastering of their debut sounds a lot like hearing a band play live. )
I did hear a change for the better with wiring once, that was when I unplugged all my non source components from a line conditioner, and fed them from PS Audio Juice Bars instead.
Tweak the phile, not just his system
This one is downright scary. Is it serious?Space-Tech Laboratory - High-End Audio
This one is downright scary. Is it serious?Space-Tech Laboratory - High-End Audio
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So the tin foil hat is out for this application since it may effect the magnetic winds that purify your blood . I can see the wind effect here just can not believe they are of a magnetic nature.
Someone should tell them, before they "dis-integrate" the bacteria in our bodies that there's a *lot* of bacteria (estimates vary between about the same number as cells, to 10 times the number of cells) and most of it is vital to the way our bodies function! They may have invented a death ray....
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