What are the components?
Longer speaker cables or interconnects
I have a feeling that this may be a topic that has already been discussed to death, but the only thread I’ve found so far is one at Stereophile.
I will I’ll be moving into my new home with a new semi dedicated semi anechoic listening room, and I am just realizing now that maybe the 25 ft speaker cable runs vs the 3 to 4 ft interconnect runs that I was used to in my old NYC loft for decades is maybe not the optimal ratio.
I presume that that I don’t want a long interconnect between the turntable and the preamp.
I’m looking for various points of views and justifications for them. Remember, one caveat is that I’m the kind of guy who will spend only a moderate amount of dollars for interconnects and speaker cable. Thank you all.
I will I’ll be moving into my new home with a new semi dedicated semi anechoic listening room, and I am just realizing now that maybe the 25 ft speaker cable runs vs the 3 to 4 ft interconnect runs that I was used to in my old NYC loft for decades is maybe not the optimal ratio.
I presume that that I don’t want a long interconnect between the turntable and the preamp.
I’m looking for various points of views and justifications for them. Remember, one caveat is that I’m the kind of guy who will spend only a moderate amount of dollars for interconnects and speaker cable. Thank you all.
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dill, the components are: Cartridges - Koetsu Onyx; van den Hul Grasshopper, Benz Micro, Grado for the 78s Arm - Sumiko MMT Table - VPI HW MK IV with SAM Preamp - Beard P505 upgraded with Jansen caps Amps - Julius Futterman OTL3s, converted to triode and upgraded with Jansen caps by Jon Specter, formerly of NY Audiolabs (the manufacturer of these amps) and cousin of Al Cooper of Highway 61, Blood Sweat & Tears founder and Stills Cooper Bloomfield Super Sessions Crossovers - Mastering Labs, upgraded with Jansen caps Speakers - Altec Lansing 604Cs Subwoofer - Velodyne ULD-15 kacomess, I know George Kay of Moscode. If you want it fixed, I can connect you. He lives in New Hampshire. elizabeth, i have akways had trouble getting slamming but clean bass. |
jperry, thanks for the link but I’m not going to spend $2800 for amp platforms for the same reason I’m not gonna spend a lot of money for cables. My whole system cost cost me no more than $17,000. I prefer to find a way to get 90% of performance of a $200K system while spending 10% of the money. I am more or less at that spot, if I include what I just spent on the listening room. eg my solution for isolating the table from vibrations - rather than spend $1000s on an isolation platform was to simply bolt the platform that the table was sitting on to a 18” thick brick wall. I will do that for the table at the new space. I also kept the dust cover down when playing music, as the arm and cartridge could sometimes generate feedback from the speakers. |
I'll defer to an expert whose advice tends to make a lot of sense because he justifies his claims either with measurable scientific fact, or from his extensive experience in the industry. Plus I've learned a lot from watching his video series and fact-checking some of his claims. For your needs, I recommend watching the video in its 7-minute entirety. (Actually you can skip the first 1:30 without missing any relevant information if you want.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WFZx6-2hA |
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