A Big DIY Bang for Your Buck?
geoffkait, This is from Wikipedia; A magnetic cartridge (phono cartridge) is a type of transducer used in the playback of analog sound recordings called records on a record player, now commonly called a turntable because of its most prominent component but formally known as a phonograph in the US and a gramophone in the UK. This from Dynavector; The The DV XX-2 MKII retains the benefit of the flux damper but features the Alinco-5 magnet and the similar rigid construction to the Te Kaitora Rua. Alnico magnets exhibit high magnetic flux density combining with a low coercive therefore magnetic resistance is lower than other magnetic types such as rare earth and ferrite, providing the exceptional stability of the XX-2 MKII output voltage. My point being magnetism or it’s field wields beneficial use in phono cartridges and interconnects to stabilize signal. Your sarcasm concerning colors of magnets really rubbed me the wrong way. Magnets and magnetism have a defining place in audio your thesis does not... |
geoffkait, Thank you for the clarification on painted magnets and see your post for what it is now and realize I jumped the gun... One of my first purchases here on Audiogon was a set of A.M. GA-0's that as you probably already know are two magnets wrapped around gold plated conductors to create a field that keeps electronic and RF smog out of the signal. In short they are still doing what they are designed to and believe sabai is creating a field to keep EMI and RF out with magnets as well. |
Spencer, I did not understand geoffkait's post on colored magnets and took it as mockery and sarcasim, the mistake lies with my lack of knowledge of what I am still guessing at is painted magnets. I realize now that I was still mad at geoffkait about what he said in another thread and it played out here. Plus I am not a quantum physicists. geoffkait, Radio frequency (RF) is any of the electromagnetic wave frequencies that lie in the range extending from around 3 kHz to 300 GHz. EMI is used to jam radio frequncies, I was under the impression that the field generated by magnets was vectoring out or perpendicular to the surface. |
toddverrone, Just would like to say thank you, I put 1/2" thick Closed-Cell Neoprene foam into bottom of two-way monitors and have been rewarded with better sound top to bottom... geoffkait, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated, and these waves can subsequently interact with other charged particles. EM waves carry energy, momentum and angular momentum away from their source particle and can impart those quantities to matter with which they interact. Quanta of EM waves are called photons, whose rest mass is zero, but whose energy, or equivalent total (relativistic) mass, is not zero so they are still affected by gravity. A photon is a single quantum of light or of any other form of electromagnetic radiation has a zero rest mass and is always moving at the speed of light. But the energy or work from photons , RF or audio cables, can take on only discrete values. |
