while researching about a new speaker cable i came upon this comment by a member at audiogon. AudiogoN Forums: Xindak FP-Gold i hope i'm allowed to post this link. but if not, the member basically states that a xindak speaker cable has 'reverse polarity' if it's built for the chinese market. the whole concept of a speaker wire with a polarity is new to me let alone the reason why the asian market would require the reverse version of it. if all this is indeed valid, then should i also be concerned with mating my USA designed diy speaker 'jim holtz's statements' to a chinese mingda tube amp? thanks for your input.
Utter rubbish.. LOL In some cases the construction of a line level cable may dictate a specific orientation because of the way a shield is configured. Usually best grounded at source end for example.
You can safely ignore this "information" but if you are skeptical just try reversing the orientation of your speaker cable.. I seriously doubt you will hear any difference at all..
Electrons behave the same pretty much everywhere on the planet afaik.. 😀
You can safely ignore this "information" but if you are skeptical just try reversing the orientation of your speaker cable.. I seriously doubt you will hear any difference at all..
Electrons behave the same pretty much everywhere on the planet afaik.. 😀
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I think he is being IRONIC, or subtly sarcastic. He does it well 😉
Just remember to always position the front panel of your amp to the east to align the earth's magnetic field with the panel, or the metal 'eddy current sublimator shield' as us experts like to call it, for those rich midtones.
My impression was quite different, but who knows you could well be right.. 😀
OMG the front panels of all of my components are accidentally aligned due east!!! 😛😛😛 (My house is a couple of blocks from the ocean and that wall is ~parallel to the shoreline.) Always wondered how my system came to have those rich midtones, nothing at all to do with the JBL 2440 compression drivers I use I guess.
I hope you keep those windows clean then for a more transparent sound 😉
That chap was obviously joking because he says '$150 for this cord with the right polarity is a steal. '.
Yes, that's right, a mere $150 - it would be a steal at $400, seeming as it's almost as good as a $500 power cord you see?
And to think there are poor dumb audiophiles connecting their stuff though to the national grid with $5 cords, I mean it makes you weep in frustration doesn't it?
A little trick many miss out on is the fuse, most people use a cheap fuse and miss out of a whole lot of imaging and soundstage, giving their audio sets a blurry two-dimensional feel to it. No way can a whole orchestra fit through a fuse wire 0.05mm thick, I always recommend a gold plated OFC copper bar there just to nip that in the bud, or for a halfway house some nice gold fuses. A useful tip for the 'green' cable guy.
Just remember they are directional, those arrows should always follow the current flow, or you'll lose the advantage and may not even notice any difference!!
That chap was obviously joking because he says '$150 for this cord with the right polarity is a steal. '.
Yes, that's right, a mere $150 - it would be a steal at $400, seeming as it's almost as good as a $500 power cord you see?
And to think there are poor dumb audiophiles connecting their stuff though to the national grid with $5 cords, I mean it makes you weep in frustration doesn't it?
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A little trick many miss out on is the fuse, most people use a cheap fuse and miss out of a whole lot of imaging and soundstage, giving their audio sets a blurry two-dimensional feel to it. No way can a whole orchestra fit through a fuse wire 0.05mm thick, I always recommend a gold plated OFC copper bar there just to nip that in the bud, or for a halfway house some nice gold fuses. A useful tip for the 'green' cable guy.
Just remember they are directional, those arrows should always follow the current flow, or you'll lose the advantage and may not even notice any difference!!
I have always lived in the Western hemisphere, although sometimes only just. I was born within about 100yds of the border. If I ever move to the Eastern hemisphere (only a few miles away), should I buy new cables for my hi-fi?
I know that the same meal is tastier in some restaurant somebody likes, even if it is worse prepared. The same apply here.
Use cables you are the best comfortable with, and enjoy your system! 😉
You're lucky, I live within about 1/2 a mile or the meridian so I just shift my gear around depending upon the solar wind - which I predict using sunspots. We had a long period of non sunspots (low solar magnetic activity -> earth climate cooling) but there are a couple of sunspots appearing - woohoo - great for the reduced cloud cover, bad for re-arranging my hi-fi yet again.
Still, you've got to go with the flow, man. I'm still trying to get the arrows on my speaker cable to match with the electron flow - it just keeps jiggling about so much I'm tempted to put batteries in the end of the cables just so I can be sure it sounds better and it's not just my imagination (being taken for a ride by the salesman).
I also find I get an extra 'shine' on the sound if I get my interconnects blessed in the nearby church, except Eminem comes out very quietly for a week afterwards. In fact it works so well I plan to get my phono pre-amp baptised so it can rise again and be saved. Excellent for choral work.
Does "on your cable" mean lengthwise (= cable laid out horizontally, as in freely around the floor) or heightwise (cable sticking up vertically into whatever orifice just happens to be there when you sit on it) ?
@Globulator: you haven't been reading BOFH stories recently, have you ? 😀
Wo, Wo, Wo, Hold on a min guys. We need to be very careful here.
The best cables are knitted by expert crochet weavers in a cave near Chedder. They need to have their dialectrickerys biased by a bank of premium no-nonsense Duracell pro cells. Otherwise the electrons will hang about causing all sorts of HD.
Cables are like diodes, much in the same way a giraffe has valves in the blood vesels in its neck, so too does a cable with its micro-crystaline structure of OFC,**😀 let alone its insulators dielectric properties. The best insulator in world for a cable is the purest virgin silk mixed with the extract from several million beatles.😀😀😀 (Shellack then)
I have been fed a fair proportion of this nonsense😎
Cheers Matt.
The best cables are knitted by expert crochet weavers in a cave near Chedder. They need to have their dialectrickerys biased by a bank of premium no-nonsense Duracell pro cells. Otherwise the electrons will hang about causing all sorts of HD.
Cables are like diodes, much in the same way a giraffe has valves in the blood vesels in its neck, so too does a cable with its micro-crystaline structure of OFC,**😀 let alone its insulators dielectric properties. The best insulator in world for a cable is the purest virgin silk mixed with the extract from several million beatles.😀😀😀 (Shellack then)
I have been fed a fair proportion of this nonsense😎
Cheers Matt.
Rubbish - I tried those after re-mortgaging my house and they sounded woolly and the cheesy sound just kept going on and on and on. And on.
I did try them with some Panasonic batteries and they sounds rather oriental which was better, but still lacking slam, although there was more pop when I tried a spare car battery. I bet you tried them with the cryogenic ice-diamond interconnects didn't you? The cold hard sound of those would perfectly match the woollyness of the Chedders - but my solid silver hosepipe sized 'groatum' interconnects are too warm and rounded for them.
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After I traded them in for some ICT Macondo risers (with 350 phase network corrector boxes made from the purest ABS) my system was totally transformed, the sound clung all over the place and made it's mark - plus - you can use regular 22mm plumbers pipe bending equipment to tailor them to your hi-fi layout. Now there is great slam, in fact it took me be surprise the other night until I realised it was the wife slamming the door when she failed to understand how £50k of cables for a £500 system was quite normal these days.
Next I'm going to be taking out the puny aluminium voice coils and rewinding them with the special wiring from a building where the Dali Lama stayed for a more integrated sound, and then replace my old optical digital cables with some proper £4000 optical cables as someones uncles blind friend said that the difference was like night and day.
the guy was talking about absolute polarity which i see as debatable while im on the skeptic's side. but if you guys are pooping about me purchasing a $150 cable, (which i will) oh please understand that some of us palettes are sensitive enough to notice which soy sauce is served with our dimsum so to speak. and believe me i would take that $1000 cable with banana plugs made out of a pirate's gold tooth for gnarly bass any day if my wallet could grow money.
I even saw one man who did not wash his hands a long time because of a handshake with a friend of one well known politician!
However, it caused some inconveniences, so he finally bought an usual cable in Home Depot, and washed his hands...
However, it caused some inconveniences, so he finally bought an usual cable in Home Depot, and washed his hands...
My wallet seems to have this property that seems irreversible. It sheds money faster than it grows it. So I use Premium Scosche auto sound speaker wire in my home system that is "Constructed with professional grade CCA wire for improved musical clarity." A 50 foot roll of 14 gauge (sufficient for short runs on a 70 watt max speaker) wire costs $12 at Walmart!
Our area is inhabited by far too many thumpa - thumpa cars, so the local Walmart has a fair selection of speaker wire up to 8 gauge and power cable harness to 00 gauge along with 1 Farad "stiffening capacitors". Decent interconnects too, far better than Radio Shack. The same stuff is right across the street at Best Buy for 10 X the price if your wallet works right.
The local Home Depot sells "Monster Cable" for an equally monster price.
There have been statements about all sorts of magical low cost speaker cables over the years. A few years ago the "magic" low budget solution was romex. I even used it for a while. Next the magic was multiple strands of cat 5 cable. I can say that was a noticible step down from the romex, so I went to Walmart. No more "magic".
Ditto for power cables. Mine came from an old computer. Yes, I have listened to Tubelab SE through $15000 speakers connected by some high priced cables and it sounded exquisite, but when played through my $300 Yamahas, Walmart speaker wire and HP power cords are just fine!
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Is the arrow for current flow based on conventional flow or electron flow?
Would hate to get the fuses in backwards because the manufacturer did not state which current flow convention the arrows are based on...😀😀😀😀
If the manufacturer did not meditate on them it does not matter yet, since current flow is still sporadic. However, if they were properly broken in, you may be unhappy...
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Electrons reversed, eddy currents uneddied, and crosstalk mediated to just a little annoyed conversationally.
Guaranteed soundstages so wide you can't see the edges and heightened enough to make your nose bleed. Deeper than a black hole.
Calls cost only $95 and all your credibility.
Electrons reversed, eddy currents uneddied, and crosstalk mediated to just a little annoyed conversationally.
Guaranteed soundstages so wide you can't see the edges and heightened enough to make your nose bleed. Deeper than a black hole.
Calls cost only $95 and all your credibility.
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