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Yes please.
Steve, you're giving me nightmares.
As long as we're screamingly OT ...My son (8 years old) came home from school a few days ago and reported that, "They had this stupid guy there today. He didn't say anything and kept doing this... (hand motions of 'man trapped in glass cube.") What the heck is that all about?" I told him that these stupid people are called "mimes" and it's OK to punch them in the pants, there's not a jury who'd convict him.
As long as we're screamingly OT ...My son (8 years old) came home from school a few days ago and reported that, "They had this stupid guy there today. He didn't say anything and kept doing this... (hand motions of 'man trapped in glass cube.") What the heck is that all about?" I told him that these stupid people are called "mimes" and it's OK to punch them in the pants, there's not a jury who'd convict him.
Controlled way?
Yes, so much of this cable deal works perfectly well for the application in which it was tested, and then its so unfortunate that its promoted with no mention of the specific application (the specific amp and speaker) for which it can work.
This omission in the usage directions seems to provide for an increase in available customers at the expense of a decrease in effectiveness of the product.
Is that really necessary?
Taken out of its specific application, a specialty cable seems to be the same as a filter of nondescript usage, and I don't know how to apply that very well.
Been there, before my ISSCC paper in 1982 I woke up to Black Flag doing "Six Pack".
RR may be right; I tend to be a bit more conservative, knowing that not everyone has speakers with as gentle an impedance curve as mine.
Warm, veiled,congested etc, were not traits that I ever heard from any Jadis amplifier. Their house sound is closer to a lean, very pristine sound vs the majority of tube amps from that age. Actually closer to a very good solid state design, without the etched quality and lack of soundstaging. There was obviously something a foul somewhere, but cables were not it 🙂
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Well, their non-flat response and euphonic ringing was probably the point of that "music amplifier."
For the amplifier as described by fdegrove, the scale of that amplifier design may get compromise when it exceeds headphone amp size (in my guess).
The rest of the flaws that you mention, especially instability and strong heat output are usual consequences of a heavy handed approach to branding the sound of a power amplifier. Many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Does anyone happen to have a frequency response measure handy? Howabout the dynamic figures? Favorite type of music to use with it? Speakers normally used with it? Was it good at bass or was that factor reliant on a preamp?
Perhaps the voicing could be easily identified and a small simulator built that anyone could use. . . plus the benefit of an "effect cancel" switch.
Sorry Andre you missed my sarcasm i.e. the smilies.
BTW the Wikipedia entry for 1/f noise is seriously lacking. There are literally 1000's of papers on this, I wish people would read even .1% of them.
BTW is this the new Blowtorch thread?
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To me this statement is the height of arrogance when those making the statement will not participate in any test where the two capacitors are the ONLY difference.
I have several friends (professional musicians) who not only can't hear that difference, they can't hear the difference between a JFET source follower and a uA741 unity gain buffer.
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