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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Can't say I share your abhorrence of all thing silver. My experiences have been somewhat different. I wouldn't however want to be accused of blinkered partisanship towards any particular brand though so I'll say no mor...
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Paul, thanks again for a nice input--sounds for me indeed seductive (well, I'm anyway +/- "self-convinced" to give a silver/amo a try).Do you use silver wire also in the tonearm? What I have in mind is a 2nd, all silver path for the 834, which would ...
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Most will recognize the Roman gladiator's salute. Caveat...Based on what I've seen at AA, this is as likely a place as any (and more likely than most) to go down in flames.My own motive for starting this up is recent experiments with super-pure...
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[quote user="drdna"]I think it has already been stated. Batteries in audio are inherently of limited utility. It is a tendency of audiophiles to dedicate themselves to a single "silver bullet" instead of building the system based on the particular ne...
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[quote user="rdrysdale"] Romy, the first time that I noticed that the speaker wires are very important to the sound was when Steve put some very expensive audiophile wires in place of our normal magnet wire. I walked into the room while familiar musi...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Meanwhile: If you are going to use a SUT, this actually is a Big Deal that will profoundly affect the Sound you get from your system, regardless of which connectors or solder you use. I recommend you integrate the SUT (with its ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The wider question is very interesting: if we need to make any design provisions in case we know that our audio is powered by “good sounding electricity”.[/quote]This is an interesting question. There is no question in my ...
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Paul,
Thank you, I will do that. :-)
I remember Jarek commenting (likely in another thread) he was looking some pure silver Soviet connectors. I found this, not Soviet, but may be of t...
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Yes, I agree, eliminate all connectors. They are made of terrible metal and it is like seasoning your food with a tiny bit of poison.On the subject of mixing silver and copper, I did find that multiple strands of different metals seemed to yiel...
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To my ears silver has a potential advantage over copper that unfortunately seems difficult to achieve. I've read that the advantage may come from the lower DC conductivity, and the problems from higher inductivity and skin effect, and lower internal ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I generally against pure silver-winded transformers ...[/quote]Romy would you care to elaborate on that a bit? In particular have you hear amorphous/silver combination?I've never heard a silver SUT myself, or actually any o...
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Thank you for the input guys. Paul, I hate those audiopedofile(tm) talks about connectors, but unfortunately I must go through it: there is possibly one non-kosher element in my planned Ag path: Au-on-Cu Vampire, connectors soldered to silver cables...
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[quote user="Stitch"]here:http://www.partsconnexion.com/connectors_rca_goertz.html[/quote]Thanks Stitch. I cann't speak of sonics but visualy it looks like in the title--a classical high massRCA design from the 40's (or 30's ?)...only done in silver ...
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Jorge, from your posts, I gather that you actually listen to your results. So you realize there is no way to predict what Haralanov's driver would sound like in (your) horn... except...As Romy has said, "articulate", tone-rich direct, paper drivers...
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Paul, thanks again for a nice input--sounds for me indeed seductive (well, I'm anyway +/- "self-convinced" to give a silver/amo a try).Do you use silver wire also in the tonearm? What I have in mind is a 2nd, all silver path for the 834, which would ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Can't say I share your abhorrence of all thing silver. My experiences have been somewhat different. I wouldn't however want to be accused of blinkered partisanship towards any particular brand though so I'll say no mor...
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Paul, thank you for your input![quote user="Paul S"]I think with the SUT the "dynamic" loading the cartridge "sees" may swamp the choice of wire metal. Once the loading is dialed in, silver might be nice. [/quote]Yes Paul, absolutely agree--the ele...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I have not tried the Eichmann, but I will do so in the near future. It seems stupid to me that they do not make a Ag socket. No surprise, my experiments suggest that the Ag connectors "improve" the "silver qualities" of the Ag...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, I am on the verge of an L-pad for my HF ribbons, but in my case I believe it is mostly the MC cartridge response I am wanting to offset, on a case by case basis. [/quote] Hm, this it VERY bad. Fix you cartridge setup, it's ...
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Every crowd has a silver lining...PT. Barnum said this over a century ago. Another phrase coined by the man...Without promotion something terrible happens, Nothing.Barnum knew human nature well and he laught all the way to the bank.These phrases not ...
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I recognise your observations about the Ag vs. Cu sound, but instead of mixing the two materials I think it is better to change the diameter.I experienced 0.5 mm silver wire to be too thin soundvice, have you tried 1.0 mm or even more? The thiner the...
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N-set, I have not tried the AN connectors. And I think the cited "metalurgical problems" relate to ease and speed (and so, cost...) of immediately available, outsourced manufacturing rather than use of the metals.FWIW, the WBT Next-Gen Ag connectors...
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Paul, thank you for your input![quote user="Paul S"]I think with the SUT the "dynamic" loading the cartridge "sees" may swamp the choice of wire metal. Once the loading is dialed in, silver might be nice. [/quote]Yes Paul, absolutely agree--the ele...
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The dielectric grease I use is specially formulated for high voltages, and it can be used on clean tube pins to excellent advantage (ignition grease): https://www.permatex.com/products/lubricants/specialty-lubricants/permatex-dielectric-tune-up-grea...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I have not tried the Eichmann, but I will do so in the near future. It seems stupid to me that they do not make a Ag socket.[/quote]Yes indeed, and I'm very much reluctant to have a free-air (i.e. not soldered) connection betwee...
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I appreciate the suggestions on the ceiling of the room; in my room the ceiling is about twelve feet tall and it opens on the side to another room with a taller skylight, so I do not know if this is a problem or not. It may be worth investigati...
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The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm
I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...
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[quote user="rdrysdale"] Romy, the first time that I noticed that the speaker wires are very important to the sound was when Steve put some very expensive audiophile wires in place of our normal magnet wire. I walked into the room while familiar musi...
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N-set, you will never know how your phono stage sounds with the "silver path" until you try it. FYI, the WBT Next-Gen M/F work well --- with each other, but less well, mechanically, with the Vampire sockets; I don't know why yet. The Vampire seem t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The guy who did my Expressive Technology SU2 transformer after he heard my pontifications the silver is bad told me that there is some silver in my transformer. He did not go into details and I think as now the “secret” wil...
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