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[quote user="N-set"] Romy would you care to elaborate on that a bit? In particular have you hear amorphous/silver combination?[/quote] Nope I never had it and even f I did it would be difficult to generalize anything. I had only once a fully silver...
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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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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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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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OK, I should have done this back when I first thought of it; basically, if I had a tail, I'd wag it: Twisted cotton-wrapped POCC silver and urethane-coated POCC copper with WBT silver Next-Gen connectors; 4 wires/cable; 1 25.5 ga. Cu and 1...
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I don't suppose the input tube was a 437A?And perhaps (at that price) silver trannies? I have never never knowingly heard silver trannies (apart from my Ortofon step-up), and I wonder why anyone would pay that much for them when amorphous ...
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It is undeniable that different metal sounds different, and the reasons for this are complex. I bet we could have a good old time discussing cable geometry, conductance, impedance, capacitance, inductance, reactance, corrosion, and maybe even s...
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I have an anal fantasy of a full silver path from the cart to the grid of the input stage.This brings me to finding an ambitious silver wound SUT. There is Slagle who can make it,but I'm inclined towards amorphous/nanocrystaline core, so there is Lun...
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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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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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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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MFA e-mailed me aknowledging that I was perhaps going to try the DIY way getting a "raw" transformer from S&B and offered me assistance. The "problem" is that their unit with a gain selector and load selector is way too expensive for my budget (1...
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Adrian, I specifically do not want to use wire to "compensate" for systemic problems. Like some pathetic believer, I have long held that the "best" wire would be "transparent". Since that appears increasingly unlikely, ...
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[quote user="drdna"]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 ...
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This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment.
http://www.sibatech.co.jp/
I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...
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Hi,[quote user="dazzdax"]Thx for this well written and highly educational piece Thorsten! It appears that Romy is not very fond of the Audio Consulting transformers, could you give your opinion regarding those? What is your opinion regarding the use ...
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Bob Graham of Graham Engineering can provide you with a silver wire transformer that sounds great to my ears. More accurately, I don't hear it detracting from my enjoyment. I use mine in conjunction with his silver wired phono cartridge s...
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Thanx Romy,
Yes, fitting "time produced" into the matrix is an important piece of the puzzle, don't think I mentioned that one.
Holco resistors are a great example, are in my notes, along with other resistors, and caps, that have changed.&n...
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I never hear them and never will as I have no quest for any better SPU but they might do something worth attention. No one knows until you try. They certainly have nothing at their website that set expectation high but it does not mean anything. I ge...
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N-set, I've never tried to make a "silver path". I have thought about Ag arm wire but I have not tried it. My cartridge coil and tonearm both use "high-purity" Cu wire, and the Cu arm wire feeds directly to the Ag wound SUT, which I use not because...
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Over 10 year later, I finally "finished" and installed a shielded version of the above cable for the short run between my phono SUT and my phono stage, replacing the nondescript Placette cables I've been using there all this time. As anyone experien...
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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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I have long wrestled with the apparently relentless upward tilt of hi-fi. It's like a rock skipping across a pond, and the overall direction of the rock's travel is upward in terms of frequency. Also, the rock "wipes" or smears out t...
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Hi Romy…and fellow audio nutters. I’ve bitten the bullet, and shifted from BLH to front-loaded. Yes, I was an idiot, a moron for not doing this sooner. My project is ‘humble’ by Romy’s standard…but I feel it meets the following objectives I h...
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One supposes good sound, but... come on, they can't be THAT good (can they?)...http://www.partsconnexion.com/catalog/CapacitorsFilm.html Deulund tabs on the bottom of the pageThey also say Jensen on them, meaning, I ass-u-me, that J...
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What I'm contemplating is an "audiophile" fuse *before* the PP. I have a dedicated AC line with its own fuse, which I can change easily. Right now there is a good German industrial fuse with silver platted contacts, polished and dielectric grease...
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The most terryfying thing is that the war was still possible in Europe...and this kind of war with heavy indiscriminative shellings...Yes Pieter needs time, but I haven't been pushing too much. We have bought silver wire so it sits there and waits. I...
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Romy, I was asking questions here, and @ RMAF because I'm trying to gather enough information to build compression drivers. At my day job I am a prototype machinist at Los Alamos National Lab. I don't plan on going into production, j...
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Ok, yesterday I have done my dedicated lines, well my electrician did it but I guess I will take all credit for it and he just get my check. I have right behind my rack with PP3000 and power measuring equipment, on the wall 3 groups of receptacle...
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