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Do you think you would be able to pick a solid core cable to a multi with out knowing which is which or where in the system its used ?

 

As you should know, there are no guarantees in audio, but I have been around audio for decades and have yet to hear a stranded cable I could live with in my system and NO, I don't subscribe to the DBT regime. I think I know by now what I like and what suits my system of the time.

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Cat 5 is so over rated and if your going to use silver plated copper you might as well use sterling silver wire .

I know I'll get stoned for this one but..... ......skin effect. Yes it happens at audio frequencies. Fine copper with a silver plate means that most of the signal travels down the copper. Yes you could use solid core sterling silver. But pure silver (where I get it any rate) is not that expensive. I make a lot of PLATTED pure silver interconnects from bare pure silver wire. I use silver solder too.

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 I make a lot of PLATTED pure silver interconnects from bare pure silver wire. I use silver solder too.

Why would you plate pure silver wire with silver ? :)

If you believe in skin effect wouldn't it be better to use the thingest gauge wire made out of pure silver for its conductivity and not worry about plated wire .

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Why would you plate pure silver wire with silver ? :)

If you believe in skin effect wouldn't it be better to use the thingest gauge wire made out of pure silver for its conductivity and not worry about plated wire .

verb (used with object), platted, platting.
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to plait; braid.
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I was listening to music played through my phone yesterday and found that as I typed I was tapping my foot and nodding my head along with the music. Expensive rigs be a luxury - give me good music. 

 

That's because foot-tapping is a response to music, not to sound quality. PRAT-thusiasts to note.

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Yes.. yes.. this is my point. Consider the contrast, these will be much  easier to differentiate than any two amplifiers:

 

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VS

 

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There is no way the two above will sound remotely similar.

 

to be fair...

 

you could do the same with amps....

 

try these two very different amps for instance ...

 

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vs

 

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and as BN has shown even in the same family quite a difference between krells as well 

 

even amps with the same basis e.g. the belcanto mono's vs the wyred 4 sound ice mono's

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even blind freddy in a well constructed DB ABX would easily pick between those two 100 % ! 

 

really though....at end of it you dont listen to an amplifier or just a speaker...you listen to a speaker amp combination with rest of the system feeding it....

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@al,

 

get it right on SNA,  man.......its a Dan D'Agostino.....not a krell product......

 

you should be reported for getting that wrong!........ :P  :D  :huh:

 

 

 

Ops  I think I just got myself Banned :ban:

 

 

If I do get banned, can someone buy a Dan D' Agastino product and donated to me........please, pretty please with cherry on top, while  I dropped to my knees begging!    :thumb:

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@al,

get it right on SNA, man.......its a Dan D'Agostino.....not a krell product......

you should be reported for getting that wrong!........ :P:D :huh:

Ops I think I just got myself Banned :ban:

If I do get banned, can someone buy a Dan D' Agastino product and donated to me........please, pretty please with cherry on top, while I dropped to my knees begging! :thumb:

We know dan was the man when comes to krell. But no I was talking about BN's post where he said in the krell family how amps can sound different :)

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I used to run thick wires to my speakers. Very cumbersome being 3-way active, at that time.

 

Imagine my surprise when I used CAT-5 cables (I'm a network engineer) and the acoustics measures *exactly* the same!!

 

Same, I've got expensive big thick Furutech retail about 1k cable sitting in a box and use Cat5, cables are the biggest waste of money for no real sonic benefit.. 

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Not good enough. You must upgrade to CAT-6. And not just any CAT-6, it must be this one

 

Faarrk.. I have been living under the rock! These CAT-6 should serve my routers & switches well too.. at $7,000 they are a steal!.. less packet collisions  :)

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Faarrk.. I have been living under the rock! These CAT-6 should serve my routers & switches well too.. at $7,000 they are a steal!.. less packet collisions  :)

 

or at least you will hear that packet collision in all of its glorious audiophile endorsed detail  :thumb:

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or at least you will hear that packet collision in all of its glorious audiophile endorsed detail  :thumb:

 

 

Hah, you won’t be able to hear it, it has packet collision avoidance  at that price,  only the purity of that waveform...... :D

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Faarrk.. I have been living under the rock! These CAT-6 should serve my routers & switches well too.. at $7,000 they are a steal!.. less packet collisions  :)

 

At $7000 they may be but you forgot that the price is in pounds and after conversion they start to get a bit expensive.  :(

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The most critical component in a system, ?

Its has to be audiofool $$$ :hiccup  hocus pocus voodoo pixie star dust magick.  :thumb:  :love  :party

 

The results are often quite surprising and entertaining, to say the least.  :D
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@al,

 

get it right on SNA,  man.......its a Dan D'Agostino.....not a krell product......

 

you should be reported for getting that wrong!........ :P  :D  :huh:

 

 

 

Ops  I think I just got myself Banned :ban:

 

 

If I do get banned, can someone buy a Dan D' Agastino product and donated to me........please, pretty please with cherry on top, while  I dropped to my knees begging!    :thumb:

When Dan was over here for the 2013 audio show I jokingly said to him " I hear Krell are looking for a new engineer". I got a half a snigger. Ozzie humor. The yanks just don't get it. I did have a great chat with his misses who was real nice.
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