Having looked at the structures of connectors on the market, I do not think any is ideal for audio, but each have different design considerations.
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I'd love to hear what you think can be improved compared to Neutrik metal-chassis XLRs and Speakons (and a lot of audiophiles are perfectly happy even with RCA connectors and banana plugs... 🙂 )
Songsc if structure is your criteria then you need to look at the worlds highest quality 3 pole audiophile connector "Asgardian Connector". Its made from Californium 252 and is metallurgically bonded with Taffeite.
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I will volunteer to do a PCB assembly.
I can Email if you turn on your Email.
Hi Andrew,
Mark was referring to myself, but your PM inbox is full, so I couldn't message you directly.
I need 4 boards for a linkwitz lx-mini. If you'd like to build 2 of them that would be great. I made the offer below to Vacup (see his message above) which I extend to your good self also:
"If I sent you sufficient funds to cover three boards + parts, would your keeping the third be sufficient to compensate you for your time? "
Regards,
Tom
Email me.
I may have sufficient passive parts to complete two builds
I don't have the input ICs and not sufficient 3886, I would certainly need to order these,
plus any "special" passives that you require.
I may have sufficient passive parts to complete two builds
I don't have the input ICs and not sufficient 3886, I would certainly need to order these,
plus any "special" passives that you require.
There must be something better than that...[emoji6]
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Afrad I'm being thick and can't see your email... on your profile page nor anywhere else... my email is my username at gmail dot com.
well first you have to work out what is wrong with existing connectors. I used to have a thing for gas tight fischer connectors but just for bling. Hypertac is good if you have military budgets to play with. But for the rest of us there is a neutrik connector that is more than good enough.
When I click on your name, I see PM option.
When I click on my name, I see two options, PM and Email.
I will try Email using your instruction.
Let's say they do work, and probably it would be hard to determine the sound difference. At least I have not found this to be critical enough yet.
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The LX-minis should be great. I so nearly built a pair, and may still do when I've given up with my apogees in a small room.
Hi Thomas, see the attached pic. You just need to click on Andrews Name on any post and you should see the option to send him a PM or email.
Tony.
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(Parts cost + shipping cost + bottle) presumably. Since customer is UK based perhaps you could negotiate for a bottle of Ardberg or Dalwhinnie or Bruichladdich. Or maybe a favorite high end grape juice from the Margeaux region of France, that's available in UK but not US.
We the people of California are permitted to praise high end grape juice (which around here is considered a locally-produced agricultural product) and nano-brewed barley malt, but only a polite golf-clap towards grain distillates.
Shipping cost of two assembled PCBs about the same size as modulus-86's, from US to UK, was $19.90. These boards were maybe a little bit heavier (shipped weight 1 lb + 3 oz on the Post Office scale) due to the giant electrolytic capacitors and eight heatsinks. So consider $19.90 a loose upper bound. THIS shipping carton was a perfect fit for two assembled PCBs about modulus-86 size.
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Thanks for the tip but I still only get the PM option. Maybe because I don't have many posts!
I'm building a pair of LXminis myself, actually. I'll use a (soon to be) spare laptop running Reaper ReaEQ along with my Focusrite Saffire PRO24 sound card for the XO rather than the MiniDSP, though, to avoid the 44.1 -> 48 kHz up-sampling of the MiniDSP.
I'll make sure to post my listening impressions to the extent I'm able once I get them finished.
Try a bottle of Chateau Saint-Estephe (Bordeaux/Medoc) if you ever get the chance. I still remember the bottle I shared with a friend back in the 1990ies. Holy crap that was good stuff...
These days, I'm more a fan of the micro brews, though. We have quite a few stellar breweries in the Pacific Northwest.
Tom
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OK doubly jealous. I just couldn't afford them, but have since realised the flaw in the plan I did have. Ah well, maybe the minis in 2017!
When one audiophile recommended the best RCA connector he has experienced, I looked at it, and saw basically the center pin and the ground shell were of the simplest geometry, then the plating was tested to be copper as did the core material. These two things stood out from the usual designs. Normally I would look for these as the minimum. Then I would further consider thinner pins as a more desirable implementation. At the signal level currents are really low, so I would look for solid core with no dissimilar material plating to be of importance throughout the signal paths, including pins. The core radius should be no more than the skin depth of the highest frequency intended.
Speakons were designed for fast connection, idiot proof, and weatherproof as far as I understand, I really have not looked into them in detail.
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If you are going single ended you are not after ultimate fidelity. As skin depth at audio frequencies is an urban legend that is also not a worry.
As for dissimilar metals, I've seen problems with nickel plating at 2GHz causing IMD but that was 20 years ago.
Pick an xlr family you like the look of and be happy.
As for dissimilar metals, I've seen problems with nickel plating at 2GHz causing IMD but that was 20 years ago.
Pick an xlr family you like the look of and be happy.