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Don't read you'll be sorry ...and they look like real! You've just eliminated possibility to sell them used coz quite a few people will know that they're fake	124
How much money do you want to waste? Craig: I've sold cables on the amount of $$$ and downgraded to a simple van den hul wires that is being used on highly priced cables. The result was increadible + I upgraded my . . .	117
7500 for USED cables? Are they joking? I would lookup into US history rather than critisize such absurd with the cables. It is all come from here where the all freedom marketing and business begins. Understand me right. . .	111
Power Cords - Just Say Yes Yes they generate an incredible income	85
The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? Wires make difference on components that are not properly designed and tend to pick up and oscillate from already increased 21st century RF influence causing large circuit . . .	76
I need a speakercable that bring voices forward me just have 'nuf power and the voices will come forward you	72
Power Cords--Your Preference? Stock one usually has the highest ROI	70
Do Interconnects need to "warm up"? You can use 'Keep Warm' settings on your slow cooker so you don't have to worm them up every time	68
The Physics of Electricity Cheap Bic and Golden Dupont cigarette lighters serve the same purpose, but one is 'a-bit' more expencive:-) Many people like Prada, LV, Cavalli, but Polo is just as good and serve . . .	57
will different lengths affect sound It will only affect $value if it's not cheap bulk wire	54
Which Cables Are of Most Importance? Tonearm cables are much more important than any other. The smaller signal the better cables are needed	50
What is your favorite low-tech tweek? Placing kids to bed	49
Do you really need ultra expensive cables? On good equipment such as McIntosh cables don't make a difference(if used proper gauge). On crappy equipment you can spend 50% on cabling with no success	49
The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? Wow never knew about it. Can you post some links for info	47
used when promised new sometimes i go to cheap stores such Marshall's or Daffy's and wonder if the clothes they sell are new	47
How important is EMI and RFI rejection? Not important on power cords and speaker cables. Important in IC's if the system components have poor design. Another words it's mostly component's fault to pick up RFI	41
A question about cable break-in Check this out first http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1035814646&openusid&zzMarakanetz&4&5#Marakanetz	41
Need Help With a Bright System I see clearly an electronic issue which might be the case with integration with NAD amps that might be clipping at high freequencies	40
cable break in The speed of insulation polarization is comparable with speed of light so cable "breaks-in" as soon as you connect it to the signal	39
Cable directionality I'm glad to hear the vast word from Audioengr! I might add that conductors inside the cables have a certain % of impurities that have mostly semi-conductive structure; there are . . .	39
Girlfriend's mom threw my Cardas out with trash If it's not too late, bring the trash bucket back to dig out unpacked Cardas. The same thing happend with me when I couldn't find a tooth crown that had been placed in the . . .	37
Whats wrong with short cables? To make it real simple, you don't need to worry unless you're aiming to use 20...30' of speaker wire length. Most of the commercial or so-called audiophile calbe manufacturers do . . .	37
Torn between two IC's... Please help... Goertz will make your amp sound thin	36
What does 'Fast mean? Agree with Proziob. Fast means nothing in electronics 'cause you should neglect the speed of a sound to a speed of an electron. In speakers it's a proper mechanical response of a . . .	35
Coconut Audio $1.5 million power cord Is there any similar Bugatti coupon	34
Which power cord more important? R1g, The weakest design is the one depended on PC or interconnect quality. The small manufacturers of audio equipment hide behind "clarity, transparency and simplicity". . .	34
Question for users of bare wire ends speaker cable Yes Sugar, indeed they can and that's what I'm using. I soldered them with RadioShack silver solder and threaded them through the binding posts. Still you will have to clean it . . .	34
Is a cable cooker worth it? Bare in mind that almost all cable results are in your mind and nothing more. approaching $8k or $88k on the components realy should not mean anything in that direction. cable . . .	33
How Black is Your Background? "Like Yo Mama"	32
Do cables really need "breaking in"? Theoretically Yes. It can happen that you won't have to break them in but that's rare. It can happen that you won't hear the difference between cables that had been running for 200. . .	32
Power conditioning / surge protection if your area is affected by surges, you need an industrial grade surge protector such as TrippLite. all of these fancy units will serve the purpose of the clean power, but if bad . . .	31
How do I know if seller is selling genuine cables? Listen to 'em if they sound right LOL	30
bi-wire vs jumpers Bi or Tri wire would be my preference. I don't like termintated cables so I use bare wire connected to terminals. In case of bi-wired speaker and single-wired cable, I'd strip the . . .	29
what to buy under $500 bi wire spkr cable JPS Superconductor 10' biwire was found here for $225 in case if OP wants to take an advantage from still existing sale offer. I disclaim not to have any relationship or interest . . .	29
Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single Biwreing may or maynot benefit since you're adding a reactance to crossover equation. Biamping is what biwire terminals are for to benefit	28
Cable lengths There are no absolutely newtral cables. The active resistance plays the smallest role especially in the wires of 10AWG or thicker. The reactance will play more important role(. . .	28
Cables that make no sense... Kirk930 I do not have to go to Radio Shack -- instead I can go to Sam-Ash Music and get pro RCA or balanced cables, change connnectors to the quality gold plated (Cadras or . . .	27
Best way to run in your Cable Elevators? A psychiatrist can give the best answer to your question. The diagnosis is somewhat similar to a Gambling Compulsive Disorder and it's treatable. The result of treatment is . . .	26
XLR and RCA interconnects in the same system? I have'em all balanced now: Technoarm rewired to have balanced(just split the ground wire onto two and connect +,- and ground accordingly 2x2=?); Classe 30 phono inputs rewired to. . .	26
Can i clean the female insides of my powercables ? pipe cleaner? ...too damn cruel	26
Purist Audio Design - Dominus Interconnect Cable If you can justify $5000 shirt or $30,000 dress, almost same could be applied to cables. Dude, I love $900pr of Prada shoes while many would stay OK for $75 Hush Puppies! At the . . .	25
Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range I have some AuidoQuest cables and pro-grade interconnect cables. I worth durability during freequent reconnections without loosing tight grip over the terminals. To say that its . . .	25
Burn in power cord by boiling water?? I'd also suggest adding some salt, pepper, squash, potato quarters with or without shell, tomatoes squeezed or ready tomato sause, bruscelle cabage, beans, and when it's done add . . .	25
$20 XLR cables that sound good ME2. Canare mic cable does xcellent job	24
Power Cords Good plug = $3.00(each end) Good wire = $2.00 for entire high quality powercord. Total parts price = $8. Total retail price OK upto $30 using general rule of thumb. Anything . . .	24
Biwiring: can you really hear the difference? Let's be more precise: Biwiring increases per/unit capacitance of the cable. If your amp can take high capacitance loads than it will improve especially bass. It's great to play . . .	24
Speaker Cables, One side longer- bad idea? If you have a stereo amplifier where each channel has a common ground, than you most likely will increase an inter-channel noise and distortions since different length cables have . . .	24
Quietest BUDGET high-current power cord? sub $500 power conditioner would make more sense	23
Siltech cables. Help to recognize originals. There was a few discussions here about Siltech, but from what I've seen and heard, even chinese fake looks and works like real	22
speaker cables Going with unterminated wires may save you even more. There are lots of manufacturers would sell them at much lower price point than you would purchase terminated ones	22
single ended cable crossed at bi wireable speaker? It doesn't matter where you will connect your cable HF or LF you can do both at LF or both at HF or +HF -LF and vise versa as long as you keep electric terminals same(pos neg	22
Contact Enhancer Deterioration Any creative ideas how else to skim audio-phools	22
advice on brightness ...tryin' to think of something other than applying to your system Valhalla speaker wires and interconnects or something mega-uga. Firstly, I'd try to unterminate your speaker . . .	22
long i/c run...looking for high end cable You'll be surprized but Canare pro-grade balanced cables available at Sam Ash Music store will do the trick with long runs at measurable price paid	22
what mid priced cables should i buy? I'd better spend $350 on some decent bookshelves and use a regular $10 RadioShack speaker wire than spend extra for some high quality cables -- WAKE UP bro	22
Nordost Cable Sale Odin always goes with at least 50% off. Who wants to buy $32k cable	21
long speaker cables or IC's for budget system If you don't have balanced components you should not run long unbalanced interconnects	21
Which cable do you think is most important? 1. Power cables for all unless components have battery operation. Make sure they exist and connected! 2. Speaker cables (unless you use headphones) only if connected properly 3. . .	21
what is the best speaker cable? I know that almost all brands of Monster are the worst. I use a short 3'runs of isolated speaker wire from VanDenHul(CV-122H model if I will trust my memory). Before I've plugged . . .	21
Copper v. Silver IC sound Relatively and theoretically speaking: If we pick up both ABSOLUTELY pure cooper and silver conductors, silver conductors will have: ~10x better per/unit conductivity and derived. . .	21
What percent of your system cost is for cables? my speakers: $2100 amps: $1200 preamp(passive diy) $250 tape deck $200 dac $250 transport $600 TT/arm/cart $2800 phono $1000 . . .	20
speaker cables with a warm sound As far as I've heard, Nirvana has a very worm "black" background and it's very friendly to the tube outputs	20
Spades or bananas Bare wire is the choice within 2...3 hours of listening. After it covers with oxide film. How about to solder bare wires firmly to the binding posts? That will take care of such . . .	20
is it time to tara down Time to move speakers to a different position	19
Speaker Cable directionality: reversable?? they may be shielded but for speaker cables in most cases it's all crap	19
25 foot bi-wire speaker cables that won't bust the bank? I am against Kimber 8tc since they have a very high capacity that is not suitable for some amplifiers + it's an addition of extra capacity into the speaker circuit that will . . .	19
Vandersteen and NOT BI WIRE---Your thoughts Vandys aren't current-hungry speakers so less-likely would benefit from biwireing. Biamping is more likely the binding posts are for	18
Line Conditioner or New Power Cords? A dirt-cheap line conditioner will do better job than mega-priced powercord	18
Anything beat dh labs t-14 for the money...... Check out Sound King part # 100-155 at Parts Express	18
Long interconnect cables Don't worry about 4 feed at all	17
Cable Cooker A $50 Panasonic Rice cooker can bring much more pleasure to you and your friends. Think about that as well	17
mapleshade listen to their beautiful knobs dude	17
Signal degration over length, source vs. output ? Generally longer speaker wires are better than longer interconnects. What distances we're talking about? Where is your stand and where is your speakers	17
Goertz MI2 and amp oscillation simply saying, your amp will be stable with these cables. Most-likely SET amp(s) will not be stable with them	17
Twisted or Straight? Audioengr, Nice to see your page! What is the overall inductance impact on 12AWG 2m power wire that passes 60Hz from the wall? X(reactance) = sqrt(2*pi*60Hz*L) In this formula L . . .	17
Volume affected by uneven lengths of spker cable?? uneven length cables harder to sell. i've switched to bulk wire(use either Kimber or VanDenHul) that I can pull to any length depending on speaker and other component placement . . .	16
Upgrade path the same for cables ? I can't guarantee if you spend 10x on speakers or amp you'll get an upgrade fighedabout cables LOL! 10x upgrade to house or condo certainly have much more linear relationship than. . .	16
cables with I think that dominative factor is not cables but amplifier. If it doesn't push enough current, than you won't be able to reach maximum potential of speakers with any cables	16
What is the best RCA interconnect? It should have Neutrik plugs	16
Who makes good quality bananas ? I have to point out that Chiquita have much better value for a spent dollar than WBT especially when you're in vitamin hunger during Spring	16
Power Conditioning, Regeneration and Cords Dennis, Forbid my dumb question, but how do you feel that you need a power enhancement in general when you listen to the music? How do anyone here feel that you need a power . . .	16
What to do when seller does not send item paid for First I wouldn't deny that strange things sometimes happen with the mail. I was waiting for the vinyl from FL to NY 26 days. I'm still waiting on record to get from California . . .	16
Looking for warmth,openess, detail For Nordost Valhalla???? I would get certainly used tubed output CD player BAT VK D5 or Cary 303/200 or SS Meridian 524... Rega players have never been worm even turntables. As to. . .	16
Digital vs Interconnect Cables - Difference? whoever tells that you can't use analogue cable for digital signal indeed never had tried that	15
XLR or RCA cables To get all advantages of Ayre, you should use balanced preamp. In your case balanced or unbalanced doesn't matter	15
Best songs played by non-author artists... I see Mateored, but I'm not talking about just rock	15
Can you hear matched power cables? Make sure you ID them blind-folded if you don't mind if somebody from your family or friends would reconnect them for you. Try also the stock ones during that test	15
What about power cords to mate Krell 650MC amps? Nice Holiday present	15
Power Cord upgrade for Sim Audio Titan amp??? The sources for the best aftermarket powercords are: www.digikey.com, www.mca.newark.com and www.newark.com for any power and current rating you need. They're the raw material used. . .	15
Cable confusion? A lower gauge(thicker wire) means lower per/length resistance but larger per/length capacitance. A capacitance load for large amps(>60W/ch) usualy will not create any problem. For . . .	15
Power cord effect on turntables the magnitude of changes should probably be neglectable especially vs. the investment. if there's better power supply for the motor for example, the magnitude will be much greater. . .	14
Do dedicated power lines have a break-in period? Yes but you won't hear it	14
Power cable for Transport $550 PC??? duh	14
Jumpers - How good do they really have to be? The best jumpers will be your calbes. Totem Manis have excellent WBT connectors that do not require any termination of the wire. I use AP12 and thread the wires through the binding. . .	14
Tube Characteristics to my taste top is great on el34	14
XLR to RCA conversion Going unbalanced you will lose near- 6dB of amplifier's gain	14
Any scientific data on cable burn-in? I've been posting on that issue quite a while ago here and shortly saying there is a micro-diode theory of all conductors. It means that there are impurities of semi-conductive . . .	14
Can I start some trouble? ... the quantity of threads like yours over crowding audiogon and you're not starting it It's been already started. There are cables that worth every penny for the job done and . . .	14
Spades or bananas Bananas are more convenient especially if you need to schuffle between speakers or speaker wires. Bananas can perform almost like spades if you clean them often. If you don't need . . .	14
Stock Power Cords? In my experience stock power cords arn't enough for power amps. With limited wire gauge to 16 there isn't enough AC power fed onto the amp. In comparison to home brew design that I. . .	14
Which cables cause issues for high bandwidth amps? First I'd like to make sure that you've connected your cables correctly and did not short on neither end amp or speaker. If you're certain that it realy happened with Goertz, I'm . . .	13
Interconnect test Nordost Anaconda	13
cleaning your spade connectors Slappy, I guess you don't drink Pepsi nor recommend to consume it:-) I personally consume Aquafina or Poland Spring	13
How long for IC cables and Power Cords to break in Faster than a blink of an eye	13
Audioquest or Transparent? The Transperent VS. AudiotQuest theorem: For any type of Transperent cable there can always be a better AudioQuest cable for the same price or even cheaper	13
tube gear vs solid state...cable effectiveness sub $3k for cable? cable may make a difference on both designs again depending on design, but it has nothing to do with price. the price of cable is only for brand and not for . . .	12
XLR cables for high-end multichannel system Mogami Gold XLR would run in average $100/pr are very hard to beat. With slight improvement going with AudioQuest or Kimber, you'll spend thousands of dollars more. Used wires . . .	12
Cable re-burn in Can't recall comedy (is it American Pie?) where kids tried to "rewind" odometer placing "Corvette" on the reverse gear	12
IC Failure Yep you need to open and see the termination. These expensive pieces are often home made and the termination may suffer either lack of skill or equipment quality limitation for . . .	12
Cable maintenance I'd have to smoke some good quality Mary-Joanna to clean cables for 2 hours. Otherwise it's too boring. Most of my time spent to clean bare wires that speakers are connected with. . .	12
Speaker Cable Termination I prefere bare wires. It's not realy a brainer to maintain. Just clean them once in a while with the contact cleaner. The crimped termination can also oxidize with time and will . . .	12
Biwire Speaker Question Dear folks, Two sets per each channel in the amplifier may have a different purpose and meaning such as speaker impedance ranges(I used to have Nikko Alpha amp where I have to . . .	12
Proper Cable Placement. I use reusable cable ties from RadioSnack and tie them to the rack so they don't touch powercords and possibly away from each other if applicable	12
Best Cable for canceling RFI Before you go for power conditioner, get(they're refundable) AudioQuest RF traps(junior model) from www.needledoctor.com and try to place them onto power cords, interconnect and . . .	12
Need a quality Y-adapter for bi-amping Any Y-adapter will always add extra reactance from itself + extra reactive loads from each amplifier into one output of your preamp. The result will be extraneous harmonic . . .	12
Interconnect Cables for Pre-and Power amp If you're indeed interested in cables, go over the Pass manuals on the cable recommendation. I guess after you read it, you won't scratch your head anymore. Connectors on the . . .	11
To splice or not to splice? sell it, make some money and buy better gear or buy more music	11
Some speaker cables produce lower/higher volume? are you trippin	11
Your thoughts please You don't need neither spades or bananas. Them only for convenience. For performance use naked wire	11
Best path to test different interconnects? Fly... It's pretty simple if you're not alone. Tell your friend to swap cables while you're blind-folded and listen to the same selected by you passage(s	11
How many quality interconnects to I need ? Fredman, These topics appear here every day. The quality of interconnects realy doesn't depend on price. The pricey ones just look nice but offer nearly the same as RadioShack . . .	11
Upper midrange glare prominence -- You can experience Totem Beak on top of your speakers. Many dealers would offer you this product to try for 30 days and will refund your money if you won't find it usefull. I was . . .	11
HELP... 2 yr. old pushed in the dust cover You can get the breast pump(for breast-feeding women) and suck the bow outside no residue will be left if you succeed	11
What spkr cable should i consider??? Visit any near-by Sam-Ash music store or any store that retails musical instruments and buy the speaker 10AWG cable for as low as $20 for all the length you need. Cheep price and . . .	11
Nordost Valhalla 2 announced and after tomorrow will be available direct from chinese manufacturers at fraction of retail price	10
Appropriate RCA cable to go from pre-out to amp? nice moniker	10
Sonic difference 1.0m vs 1.5m digital cable digital cable with passive preamp	10
Mapleshade Cables They don't make things worse but that doesn't mean you should spend 20 or 50x of normal cable price just for those that don't make things worse. If you dig further on their other . . .	10
why do i lose center image when i use xlr cables? Yes, Reposition speakers	10
BAT stuff and Cables 4yanx, Balanced circuit tends to be less-depended on wire quality length and reactance i.e. gives you less options to "play with wires" and/or "audition" them. . . .	10
Kimber or Cardas for Dynaudio 1.3se Kimber cable(almost any in the line) can be easily replaced by high quality pro speaker wire terminated with WBT or Cardas. Cardas Newtral Referance is the cable that you won't . . .	10
Interconnects for tube equipment? Nirvana cables for Jolida -> Rogue Tempest??????????? Do these cables make sence at all? In your case, Papageorgio you can even stay under $200 and won't get wrong since for pair . . .	10
RCA plugs that don't fit. I had the same problem with Cardas RCA. These RCA plugs weren't solid ahd had a "6-teeth" structure. I inserted a wire pliers inside and streched(very carefully) the . . .	10
Burn In Time for TruthLinks ...theoretically forever so erase from your brain that within the time they will be better in reality	10
ultimate interconnect recommendations http://www.geocities.com/venhaus1/diysilverinterconnects.html will be an inexpencive example of newtral and efficient all-purpouse interconnects. for a cheaper version the 30ga . . .	10
Has any one heard Kimber over audio quest? if you're used to silver than stick to kimber. you can't find any cheaper silver wire anyways	9
Interconnect cable, $150 max For headphone setup I like VanDenHul DIY and complete products for even half price of your budget	9
Cable Characteristcs - Silver vs. Copper Silver is the best electric conductor but quite costly. So it's best for ICs or internal circuit wires while you'd be better-of with copper for speaker cables	9
Here we go again...Silver vs. Copper on P/C 's silver is better for the very long runs(a few hundreds meters or so) but very expencive	9
How good is Monster 2.4 bi-wire? It's OK but with Caroll Command wire from partsexpress.com you can do even better	9
How important is powercord synergy? Powercord is important depending on length and current it needs to drow from the wall socket. If you intend to use a long powercord you should take a thicker gauge If you take . . .	9
Spkr Cables . Can you use 2 diff brands at once? There are two philosophies surfing arround this area: One of them CABLES DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE and the other CABLES DO NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE. If you believe into the second . . .	9
Anyone auditioned Virtual Dynamics Extension cord EXXXCuse me, Are you trying to use the extention power cord to improve the sound??????? What's the point	9
Inexpensive Tri-Wire Cables Triwire and biwire all can be done with separate wires and/or cables the following cheap and great way: order a 12AWG silverplated Carol Command wire from www.partsexpress.com. . . .	9
Are Cheap XLR Balanced Better Or GOOD RCA Some of the Japanese pro balanced cables can realy honestly perform meaning transfer from one component to another in the newtral media. Their performance is great for the price . . .	9
AC PWR cable to PWR Conditioner??? As to quality of sound -- I doubt. Power tweaks are mostly to be designed to reduce or eliminate power hum	9
Speaker cable length for mono blocks I'm aiming to have the same setup with tube monos and I'm about to buy just bulk 5...6ft of Analysis + Oval speaker cable and terminate it myself with Cardas termination kit . 2.... . .	9
Interest in an interconnect ...Well well Sometimes it's not going to make a sence unless you're guys going to be paying at least for shipping. If I would pay for shipping + rental price of the cables of $10/. . .	9
looking for exotic affordable wire suppliers There are bunch of konfetti in walmart you can get to beautify your cables as well	8
pure silver speaker wire buy bulk or trade in your lamborgini	8
Can anyone recommend a good balanced phono cable Bigbucks, It's a piece of cake to rewire tonearm for balanced cables by splitting ground wire onto both channels and than connecting pos-neg correspondedly to XLR plugs. The . . .	8
Question regarding burn-in with small signal it's impossible to burn-in. if you apply some high voltage 300...400V than your interconnect may work as fuse and will eventually burn ...in	8
What about Cardas Cord? I bet that it nears the price of your amp wich already doesn't make a sence	8
Converting Power Cords into Speaker Cables? ... mad desire to experiment on something not worth wasting time for. You can go through the 'cooking' recipes of making a speaker cable buying simply high quality bulk wire(that . . .	8
BIWIRE TERMINALS If you have biwire terminals with no jumpers you SHOUD connect BOTH terminals to a single wire(vertically) otherwise you will only hear freequencies cut-off by crossover and filter. . .	8
Fixed power cords Change the PC internally or leave it as-is 'cause you gain not too much of a difference	8
Expensive interconnects One thing if you go to a local bar and order a drink and another thing if you go to Club 54 in NY and order the same drink. The same drink will certainly taste same but the price . . .	8
Good cables for my rear speakers Why not going RadioShack way and get 14 or 16AWG 120' run for $7 instead of $100 or $300	8
Thick or thin speaker & interconnect cables ? At 10W/ch all you will ever need is to keep your cables as short and as newtral as possible. You can go as low as 20AWG for the speaker cable since the current isn't high	8
interconnect help There are inexpencive professional grade (RCA or XLR) cables that you can successfully use on any audiofile system and with huge lengths. Try to get Canare japanese pro . . .	8
How many truly high-end speakers sold yearly? Is there a possibility to acquire a mortgage for the "true high-end speaker"? I'm curious but not serious:) When you're buying a junk house and rebuilding it yourself . . .	8
Biwiring ...Since biwiring does a speaker crossover at the amplifier level, the crossover point may slightly change up or down depending on amplifier. You will feel biger difference in . . .	8
Reterminating Kimber 12TC Speaker cable: possible? Why do you need bi-wire? Are you planning to bi-amp? If you make your speaker bi-wire and not going to biamp, than it's a perfect example of going from point A back to point A so . . .	7
Optimal length for digital cables: 1m or 1.5m? the length that 'supplies' sufficient rated impedance	7
? Re-Terminate Virtual Dynamics Speaker Cable ? you need to have a powerful soldering iron and clamps such as 'helping hands' to do any of speaker cable terminations or interconnects	7
Interconnect question I found totally opposite to Soix. Small signal domain has substantially larger demand in wire quality	7
Is there a cable maven in the house? There are ways described above will work, but to have a true balanced chain I'd replace preamp(which I did myself a while ago). The ideal case when you have directly coupled . . .	7
Max length of IC's? Long IC's vs short SW Most likely the long unbalanced interconnects must be shielded(RFI safe) and it dictates higher per-unit capacitance. How much of the trebble will be rolled off? Probably not too . . .	7
Ever check the Wanteds? Wanted: Legacy Focus $1100 or Aerial 10t $1500 also wanted: Jeff Rowland Consonance preamp $500	7
Does preamp w/Power Supply need a good Power Cord? Obviously after spending a kilobuck you'd better hear some differences and besides, good contribution to help out with today's crisis situation as well	7
is 4 meter speaker cable too long? 4m is OK. With some amps(such as Macintosh) even 20m is OK	7
speaker cable length question signal degrades more in interconnects than in speaker cables. if not enough juice on input your bottom end will dissapear. for speaker cables it doesn't matter as long as proper . . .	7
Speaker cable suggestions Why not buying a wire instead of terminated cable? You pay extra >$100 for termination and connectors in this crazy 'phile market? Check the vandenhul cite for cables and buy bulk . . .	7
Speaker cable connectors? What exactly do they do? I'm a bare wire dude and I clean the wires every two weeks on both ends. I have a biamplified system and I use two sets of bare wires	7
Can I replaced an attached power cord? Please mind that you will also add an extra connector instead of having a solid wire to your power outlet	7
Best way to terminate speaker cables ? If the binding posts on the speaker have holes for bare wire that you don't need to terminate them. Just you clean them twice per month with contact treatments. Someone mentioned . . .	7
speaker cables recommendations You can get VanDenHul CV125 that will certainly be better than Monster and within your price range. It's actually a speaker wire so you can either terminate it yourself or ask for . . .	7
Issues from using wrong spkr. termination acquire solderless WBT bannanas from www.partsexpress.com and re-terminate your speaker wires	7
RadioShack outlets VS. Panamax. I kind-of did not complete my question since I was in the middle of doing something else but I admit Audioman's answer is pretty obvious and correct. For now I can't stretch the . . .	7
Straight Wire Question Very often to my experience people dissadisfied with StragitWire. They look like home-brewed and home-terminated. I believe that you won't go wrong with AudioQuest Diamondblack all. . .	7
Volume settings affect on speaker cable burn in ? No matter how loud you're going to play it will only make a little difference since the current isn't still enough to break-in. Most of the direction-specified speaker cables are . . .	7
Signal direction Theoretically saying every conductor has chrystalic malstructures of the semi-conductor nature("impurities") Let's consider these impurities as diodes(one-way . . .	7
Long Power Cord Runs As to power cords you can figure that the power lines to your place have substantially larger lengths so length of power cord does not matter. As to length of interconnects vs. . . .	6
Digital cable upgrade? Can you tell a difference? Sandstone's controversal statement would imply that it's much better to invest in components and non-digital cables, but the best, if overall performance is great, is to invest . . .	6
biwire w/just one amp output? you would avoid using jumpers. same way you can cut more isolation on your speaker wire and thread it through both speaker binding posts. thus you'll have a 'homogeneous' . . .	6
Power cable hierarchy for components The point is that you can buy ONE PC and switch it between ANY component of your rig. Leave it where it bests to your taste and buy another one Do the same with another one... If . . .	6
Power cords, most effective placement: Instructions for audiophile powercord placements: 1. Remove any price tags. 2. Hide receipt onto the safe place from your wife. 3. Mask labelling(if possible) so your wife won't . . .	6
What's the best XLR interconnects for Krell? ...and what is the best globe for United States	6
Power cord length and monoblocks ...only approximately... as long as difference in lengths less than 20m	6
IC's gain dependent? 40000 Ohms are too extreame!!! But the audiable level difference to the tens of kOhms load might start in range of high tens of Ohms or low-hundreds Ohms depending on input . . .	6
High end PCs,,,,,in the wall or power conditioner? 1. Wall dedicated 30A circuit(can be used for both monos) with built-in isolation transformer for surge protection. 2. Probably your budget won't need to be stretched further since. . .	6
Powered Speaker Cables Whaaat??? You maybe messing up with networked cables such as MIT, Transperent that kind-a shunt reactance in the middle-way to the signal but at the same time increase the . . .	6
Which link is most important? smaller signal is more vulnarable to the wire quality so the cd-to-pre is the right decision. if you have Sam Ash music store near you i would suggest to pick up canare japanese . . .	6
When to bi-wire? I've just had to my consideration an unsuccessfull bi-wire. I don't know when can I stop experimenting but I lost the details mixing Analysis+ 12 with VanDenHul CV125H. I . . .	6
Interconnects recommendation for passive preamp? Nordost cables? What kind? I believe that their flat design similar to parallel connection of capacitors if the equivalent circuit of these cables will be drown. If capacitors are . . .	6
Any cheap silver cables for Talon Khorus? I'm the Van Den Hul fan since they give you a possibility to get unterminated wire that you can use as a realy great cable. If you visit their website wwww.vandenhul.com you will . . .	6
Help me with the last item in my new system Hear this: I've downgraded from JPS Labs Superconductor speaker cables to unterminated Van Den Hul $75 6'runs directly from What Hi Fi catalogue. This is my best cable buy I've . . .	6
Balanced or SET Which one is more musical? Need help Balanced is only good if you have long interconnects and unstable oscilating power in your setup. In the rest of cases musicality and transparancy is better with SE interconnects	6
High Capacitance Phono/Tonearm Cables? you can connect it through the speaker cable that will have enough load capacitance	5
How many cables do I need for my turntable system? If you buy Kimber 4tc unterminated bulk for your speakers you'll be within your budget. You can also research bulk VanDenHul wire. They go $7/foot. $70 will get you where you need . . .	5
I have a vocabulary question. Every signal path consists of forward and return paths. A power cord has the plug with two or three prongs. Two of them are signal ones and one is ground. Signal ones are hot and . . .	5
Popping Sound Coming From Speakers I guess they're terminated imprperly or there should be somewhere loose ground connection. AQ RCAs are detachable so you can easily spot the case	5
Longer speaker cables or phono cables? In this situation you're in the "cage" or "gridlock". Phono cables are thin and have high per/unit resistance. Making them longer will certainly increase it . . .	5
Speaker Termination for dummies ...a gauge of 14 is good enough for your rear channels and should be good enough even for your mains. You simply can just buy a Zip Cord from RadioShack and hook it up unterminated. . .	5
DIY CABLES Need Advice, Opinions, Supplier Info The simpliest way: the VanDenHul online offers you veriety of the greatest quality cables that arn't terminated. You can also order just wires from them. RCA, XLR, Bananas, Spades. . .	5
Speaker cables and their frequency responses Sean, There were bunch of articles/discussions on that topic and I hope you're familiar with it. It is well known that most of the companies do not use engineering and . . .	5
Advise for speaker cable upgrade please I'll place a second vote for Analysis + Oval 9 since I've seen these cables on very costly setups such as Tannoy Churchill driven by a pair of BAT VK60 in mono configuration. It . . .	5
3.5mm to RCA cable mogami has complete wires available at major pro audio retailers such as sweetwater, fullcompas, musiciansfriend etc	4
MIT Bi-Wire Speaker Cable Question To avoid high capacitance, I would only use one of single runs and would isolate the other terminals	4
Ypsilon BC-1 Balanced Transformers - $3600? $3600 can get you a state of the art balanced preamp which I'm sure will sound better than your unbalanced and Ypsilon transformer	4
Phono cable construction 1. I would advise to use standard length for phono cable as it's designed to come to cartridge load equation especially if MC cartridge is used. 2. Phono cables are usually made of. . .	4
what connectors do you use on your jumpers? just wire. would never use bananas. i also like pro binding posts and neutrik locking connector. otherwise just wire is enough. i clean it from time to time to prevent oxidation	4
Suggestions for 15 foot Bi-wire cable under $1K 1st option: Check out VanDenHul CV125 bulk speaker wire on their web and take 60' which will yield approximately $400 if you will terminate them yourself.(Acquire crimping tool . . .	4
VTL IT-85 integrated vs. Cary SLI-80 integrated I compared SLI 80 with VTL MB100 monos(no preamp, CD-player with volume control) both used when I made the definite decision towards VTL	4
Cable settle in time? Stay also tuned for spiritual cable and wire enhancements that will soon be needed to apply before connection	4
Audiodharma cooker I prefere to cook pilaf or rotissarie chicken	4
Cables recommendations for Revel F30? Type 4 cable is probably bi-wired. Use it for now and get good 2ch-amp. 10% of HT can be successfully heard with inexpencive receiver or system from still going out-of biz WIZ . . .	4
Signal Flow of older AudioQuest Topaz the one with one thick has shield connected to the ground. that's the one you connect to the source. that works if you have lots of RF arround your rig, otherwise you shouldn't . . .	4
EAD support with old products Very simple: sell EAD700 with 220V on ebay and buy 110V here or on ebay	4
Speaker wire for Martin Logan reQuests? I'll try to stay bellow the speaker price: You can try AudioQuest Midnight or if you can spend Cardas Newtral Reference. The cheepest and very competitive way to aquire your needs . . .	4
DIY Speaker and IC Cable Burning burning-in cables from AC socket isn't bad since the burn-in will be much faster. burning in cables brings chrystalic malstructures(mostly semiconductor-like)to the regular . . .	4
Interconnect conundrum if you distribute cables such as Brand per Channel and your preamp has 'mono' switch and balance, you can actually A/B them	3
PAD cable pricing questions borrow for listening test first	3
dumb question, how to fix loose termination? Naked wire not only will fix problem but will be more superior than banana plugs. Just only slight inconvenience of connecting them	3
PC for R.A.B.O.S powered subs for better bass Despite having no experience with RABOS subs, I'd recommend you staying with factory PC since it won't make any difference except decreasing your wallet. For better and deeper bass. . .	3
Cable short-repair? You MUST either repair or replace these cables. This shorting can be a result of extra-loud clicking sounds from your amp to your speakers and might blow the driver(s). Yes it is . . .	3
looking for rca to XLR Cable www.partsexpress.com www.bettercables.com cheap and great quality. also if there is one close to you Sam Ash Music store you can find some pro grade (excellent quality) real cheap . . .	3
your experiences bi-amping using passive pre-amp? Technically speaking any biamping without active crossover sucks. But if you deside to try, passive preamp isn't a problem in this case. Just make sure that pair of your amps can . . .	3
Speaker cables for Verity speakers Speaker cables should match to the amp more than to speakers	2
Using old speaker cables for an IC Also RCA recepticles could be converted to speaker binding posts. You also need to be creative to find proper RCA plug that would fit certain gauge of wire	2
Anyone with a cable cooker in CT? CableCookingBurning101	2
Any one heard IXOS cables??? Heard many different things that produce music: live instruments electric and acoustic, tuners, speakers, amps, tables, digital players etc...; but if I hear cables, it means . . .	2
Sound changes Do not expect the sound to be changed a lot. High level cables have a large diameter so they look like high level i.e. to be different from generic speaker wires but in reality . . .	2
Analysis Plus VS Silverline bi-wired In bi-wiring nothing you will loose except an extra-investment when you simply get another pair(either identical or different gauge) of AP or any different wires that you might . . .	2
Different cable lengths for biwiring well, resistance in this case is negligable especially in case with bi-wiring. the capacitance is already increased and i assume that your amp can handle a large capacitance loads(. . .	2
Long RCA interconnects to the headphone amp? Zaike, Thanks for the input. I also want to know if there will be any difference if I use some RadioShack grade interconnects and higher quality pro- or audiofile grade. I found . . .	2
Cheap Spades what kind of binding posts you have? i use no connectors(spades or bannanas) at all threading through just bare wires with some solder on them to prevent oxiding	2
Cheap, effective, and best of all EASY... I've been also thinking plugging in such "pigtale" into existing hole, but my amps are too close to the wall and the power cord will not fit. I've threaded the VanDenHul . . .	2
wiring a 2 channel home theater I have a similar situation as yours. I have a 2ch combined with video system. For this you just need two outs from your DVD: the digital and the AV3. I use my DAC with LD transport. . .	2
I2s Connectors www.partsexpress.com also might satisfy your needs	2
Distributor for Terminations www.partsexpress.com, music direct(www.musicdirect.com) for cardas, www.marchandelec.com	2
3.5mm to RCA interconnect Mogami has all various A to B cables: XLR to 3.5, RCA to 3.5, RCA to XLR and many others. They're all excellent and cheap cables	1
Signal Cable vs WW Depends on the rest of your equipment	1
Interconnects to break ground loop That's what I use for unbalanced interconnects. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/483165-REG/Mogami_GOLD_RCA_RCA_06_Gold_RCA_Male_to.html These are professionally crafted . . .	1
Loose ends for my system... 1. Silver Oval's perhaps will be more pricey than your speakers. Unterminated Oval 12 is cheap and great cable. I remember purchasing remaining bulk of 10' from them directly for $. . .	1
Biwiring zu wax speaker cables Before surgery decision read bellow: You can also buy thinner speaker wire from VanDenHul (Chris is extreamly knowlegable in these kinds of set ups to recommend the proper gauge . . .	1
3.5mm headphone to Speaker You currently have an electret passive driver which is simply a transformer and fileter. You will need to purchase STAX active driver that connects to tape output(volume . . .	1
About Van den Hul D-300 S cable Hi, Dazzdax. I'm 100% wired with VanDenHul. Any different cable I will try let it be more expencive or more fancy it either doesn't improve nor make things worse. Whenever you're . . .	1