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yungman
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There are a lot of so called black magic in this. Some seems to pan out, some I don't understand.
1) I know from personal experience that large cable like monster cable for speakers work. Me and my wife did an experiment. I used some Monster Cable like cables and listen to the sound with different of pairs in parallel. We could here the difference with the openess of the sound ( seem to have a bigger sound stage and better separation ) every time I parallel one extra pair of the big cable. We end up having 4 pairs of big cables in parallel to get the better sound on each side! Two pairs for the woofer and two pairs for the mid and tweeter.
2) I use Monster cable to interconnect from DVD player to Amp, From sattlite reciever to different players, it does make a difference compare with the cheap RCA jets that come with every VCR or DVD players. Why? I can see the speaker cable has to drive low impedance load, any small parasitic will hurt. But the line or AUX input is in 10K+ ohm range, why does it make a difference. The fact the little RG58 can pass hundreds of MHz. How can this make a difference?...AND it really does! I end up spending hundreds of dollars buying just cables!
I am sure there are more other "superspicious" stuffs...like what cap to use! Other than the ESR issue that can be overcome by parallel diferent value caps. For example if you need a 470uF, you put something like a 10uF in parallel with the 470uF ( well increase the capacitance a little). Maybe using 3 of the 3.3uF in parallel or 4 of the 2.2uF to make up approx. 10uF. This will further lower the ESR for high frequency response.
There just a lot of this kind of stuffs floating around in the audiophile and guitar amp arena. Feel free to join in your opinions.
Merry Christmas
Alan
1) I know from personal experience that large cable like monster cable for speakers work. Me and my wife did an experiment. I used some Monster Cable like cables and listen to the sound with different of pairs in parallel. We could here the difference with the openess of the sound ( seem to have a bigger sound stage and better separation ) every time I parallel one extra pair of the big cable. We end up having 4 pairs of big cables in parallel to get the better sound on each side! Two pairs for the woofer and two pairs for the mid and tweeter.
2) I use Monster cable to interconnect from DVD player to Amp, From sattlite reciever to different players, it does make a difference compare with the cheap RCA jets that come with every VCR or DVD players. Why? I can see the speaker cable has to drive low impedance load, any small parasitic will hurt. But the line or AUX input is in 10K+ ohm range, why does it make a difference. The fact the little RG58 can pass hundreds of MHz. How can this make a difference?...AND it really does! I end up spending hundreds of dollars buying just cables!
I am sure there are more other "superspicious" stuffs...like what cap to use! Other than the ESR issue that can be overcome by parallel diferent value caps. For example if you need a 470uF, you put something like a 10uF in parallel with the 470uF ( well increase the capacitance a little). Maybe using 3 of the 3.3uF in parallel or 4 of the 2.2uF to make up approx. 10uF. This will further lower the ESR for high frequency response.
There just a lot of this kind of stuffs floating around in the audiophile and guitar amp arena. Feel free to join in your opinions.
Merry Christmas
Alan