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Post Subject: EdgarHorns and cablePosted by drdna on: 12/6/2005
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 be worth investigating?
Also, I have tried many many kinds of wire in my system and I agree that the sound of silver is very distinctive -- I also can easily tell if I change a small piece of silver or copper wire in my system. I have found that silver gives a very wonderful realism to the upper midrange and highs, but this is at the expense of the lower midrange which is kind of dulled and sucked out and I expect this is why Romy hates it so. This seems much better when you are using a very fine silver foil, at least to my ears, but it is never the full, richer sound of the copper, but the copper is not as immediate-sounding as the silver to me either in the very upper midrange, so I think this is really a trade-off.
Maybe this is part of my problem with the EdgarHorn Titans however because the wire Bruce Edgar has inside the speakers looks like steel or copper coated with steel or silver (anyway it is a silvery-colored metal) and it is multi-stranded. Everywhere else in my system I have only solid-core ultra-fine gauge wire, including the insides of all my equipment and my old speakers which I re-wired. So perhaps this is part of the reason the "magic" is missing. After I figure out how to make these speakers disappear, perhaps next I should examine re-wiring the speakers?
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