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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Guy Hammel Would Laugh! by Paul S on 2018-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
Not that I have a lot of patience for audio, but I finally ran out my allotment for the effing shielded phono cables when the clock sounded 12 before I figured out a quiet grounding scheme.  On the up side, I cleaned and re-greased all the contacts f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #591: New smart layout of the power cables by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I think it needed to be expended what I mean by “new smart layout of the power cables”. What you run a large system than you have many circumstances when power cables cross signal cables. Not only that. The PDO cables are liquid filled and they do no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #591: New smart layout of the power cables by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
I think it needed to be expended what I mean by “new smart layout of the power cables”. What you run a large system than you have many circumstances when power cables cross signal cables. Not only that. The PDO cables are liquid filled and they do no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Uber-Placette and Cables by Paul S on 2009-11-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Glad to hear you finally went and did IT!  Now let's see (hear) how buffered per-channel level-set resistance works with the per-channel curves, and how easy this is to tune and integrate per total (stereo) side. It seems like this pretty much "has t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: BTW, talking about the better cables. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Purist Audio Design vs. Purist Audio Design in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
I need to note that the methods that Purist uses are superbly powerful. A few years ago, inspired by what POD does I did number experiments damping cables with liquid. It is astonishing how sound was affected with different liquids. I was running at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The location of last cap and about the Milq6 cables by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bias help in Melquiades Amplifier  96 Replies 
Yes, the last cap of power supply much be on the side of load as it shell have a short path to ground. Without it you will have “less bass”, more crosstalk in case it is a stereo amp with single PS and a few other negative things. With cables is mor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Cables by ArmAlex on 2009-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Carbon Interconnect in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Dear Romy, What is your opinion about silver cables drdna suggested (http://www.laventure.net/tourist/cables.htm)Armen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Cables as Sound Shapers by Paul S on 2018-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM and … cables… in Off Air Audio  4 Replies 
Looks like this cable thread is about cables for FM (a particular FM set-up, actually...).  And why not, since a given cable will certainly affect the sound we get from our systems according to how we use it? Even the "professional reviewers" unders...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Cords and cables and bidats by Vance on 2008-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Yeah, the power cord was nothing special. The Shunyata cord PLUS the Hyrdra conditioner represent the single best upgrades to my system aside from John's mods. I was skeptical about power cords and conditioners, but I'm a bit of a fanatic a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The POD cables by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Purist Audio Design vs. Purist Audio Design in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Tim, the cable loading is not what I meant. Purist does like higher current across the cable but which cable does not love it? Dave Clark described very well some of the aspect of usability of POD cables (like disturbance). Some of them he left out. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: ..and never forget the “Big Secret of Cables” by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
The Big Secret of Cables is a fact, well know fact BTW, that electricity does not flow in cable but rather within an electromagnetic field around the conductor. The cable’s nearfield (let say 2” around a conductor) is as critical environment as the c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DSET and Cables. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DSET and Cables. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
This is not as simple question as one might think. If a person embrace DSET topology, let for instance to take my example of 6-DSET channels, then what to do with cables that feed the DSETs? In my case I use one interconnect between preamp and DS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The current-loading of cables as a separate subject. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Attentuators plugged directly into the RCA jacks sounds like good solution for balance control[/quote]Do not forget that you do not need the attenuators but juts one attenuator that you would plug on right OR on left. Also,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: How much of our troubles have been cables all along? by Paul S on 2007-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
I have been adding and reconfiguring gear recently and I will be needing a 6' digital cable very soon, when I add batteriy power, so I just went ahead and bought one of the "Synopsis" remainders Romy mentioned.This $5 discontinued Belkin blue ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Re: the after-transformer cables... by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1 in Analog Playback  33 Replies 
When I said “cable” then I meant whatever cable might mean, the sonic qualities and whatever comes with it. You cartridge with it 2mV drives a cable to a transformer, for instance 1M that has impedance, capacitance and so on. The transformer has 26dB...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Cables and good vibrations by Paul S on 2008-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How do you position your stereo? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Adrian, is the room raised floor or a slab?  If the former, then wall-mount makes sense, especially for a TT.  If slab, then you have more options, as far as spreading things around.  Soft carpet or hard flooring factors, too.  Yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: EdgarHorn, 2A3, cables, wire, DEQX by drdna on 2011-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="slack key"]I know that speaker position and room acoustics are important.  I use a laser to align the speakers, room treatments, hallographs, crystals, ionizer, Z-sleeves, bybee filters, etc.  I also have power conditioners, installed de...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #392: Cables management. by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Considering the employments I would like to make in my installation after the floor will be done and the system is re-assembled I am very much thinking about some kind of new cable management solution. I have 21 powered components in my playback syst...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to manage audio power cables. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to manage audio power cables. in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
This is very ugly topic as I have been looking a solution for years and I do not have a consensus with myself regarding this. I have 21 AC power consumers in my playback. Well, the 21 that require good power, another 8 might be plugged to the utility...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1776: Cables... by xandcg on 2021-04-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Paul, I've see the post you referenced today, and I am still thinking about cable construction: UP-OCC Copper or Silver Wire[1,2,3] -> Wax (or Oil) -> Cotton Sleeve -> A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Some thoughts on cables by Bud on 2005-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
Rich,I have been experimenting with true Litz magnet wire (we use it in our transformers occaisionally) and have discovered that you can use discreete amounts of plastic dielectric material, spaced down the length of the wire, to "tune" the dynamic c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Deep-cryogenically treated cables? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep-cryogenically treated cables? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
Still being pissed that my second arm/cartridge does not sound as good as my first one I decides to get another phono DIN-RCA cable – I have my reasons to be suspicions now about my kinky Micro Fat cable. So, talking about different manufacturers som...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cables by ArmAlex on 2009-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Carbon Interconnect in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Dear Drdna, I red with interest about your experience in cables would you please give us more info. As I 'm sure many audiophiles are tired of spending $10000000000for cables which actual  material cost are $0.00000000000001!Armen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Cables by ArmAlex on 2009-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Carbon Interconnect in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Dear Romy, You got me wrong I perfectly know that value of many things are not the sum of materials which they are made of, otherwise you could buy Mona Lisa for couple of bucks. The point I tried to say is usually cable manufacturers-and others in a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: FM and … cables… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM and … cables… in Off Air Audio  4 Replies 
If you read my site or talk to me then you know that I am very much not a proponent to dummy idea of balancing specific problems of playback system by using specific complimentary cables. I always tend to use individually neutral components with ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Wywires – “Custom” designed cables? by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wywires – “Custom” designed cables? in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
Robert Levi from Positive Feedback posted a review about a new company from California – Wywires. The company reportedly does custom cables. It picked my interest on multiple levels. Since Purist went down in quality I do not have a cable supplie...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A wrong premise about the aquarium cables. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Purist Audio Design vs. Purist Audio Design in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
[quote user="glaesemann"]I think we know why Purist does not send out refill kits. For the same reason HP and Canon do not send out ink refill kits. [/quote] You are incorrect. Diminus comes with lifetime warranty and Purist refill own cables for fre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Making cables by drdna on 2009-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Carbon Interconnect in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Hard to generalize, since different cables should be made differently for different applications and different goals.  If you tell me specifically what you are trying to do, I might be able to make some suggestions.  For some general ideas, thoug...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Cables, DACSs and people.... by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Vance"] Romy, it takes several months for those blackgate caps to fully calm down…. [/quote] Actually I take more like several decades and then 5 years after you each time shut down the unit for 5 minutes. I am known to be not a huge fu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Clock cables by custodian on 2016-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The most interesting in who of it is the question: what relation cable impedance has to do with actual sound? It is easy to take number of cable and to measure how close they are to 75R. It is very easy if the cable that ...
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