Would it improve the sound on my 8 track??
John...................8-)
John Burke
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Fowler
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
They do have the amplifier built into the speakers. I saw some about 8
years ago, sounded nice, and were good and heavy.
Then you can get into the copper crystalline signal cables, which are
just as expensive as the speaker wires.
It's all about the money...
david
Hogg, Blair K. wrote:
> I wonder why someone doesn't just put the amplifier at the speaker
> itself, then run line level audio through shielded cables to each
> amplifier. Probably too much chance of em noise affecting the signal.
> Could always go digital to the speaker, then turn it into audio signals
> driving the voice coil. I think that is how it is done on some
> automotive systems.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Inge
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:27 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
>
> The world is full of nonsense. A friend of mine bought water cooled
> speaker cables with pure gold connectors. That cable, I assure, could
> supply current to a whole block in Santa Domingo. Myself, have an
> ordinary "room cord" like the one you use for your desk lamp, this one
> 15 feet long wire feeds a 800 W bass speaker. The loss in the wire is so
> low, that it's neglectable, and the distortion would noone hear when the
> bookshelves vibrate and you feel the thunder through the chair's legs. I
> prefer to listen to the music, not to look at the music via a
> oscilloscope and a spectrum analyzer.
> Inge
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Collins" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
>
>
>
>> Ha! I'm guessing that wasn't a blind test. How would that short
>>
> piece
>
>> of wire impact audio performance? It's connecting a household plug
>> socket, through the house wiring (of dubious quality if it's Inge's
>> house...) and the power grid... and has a transformer on the other
>> side, presumably.
>>
>> I'm guessing this is along the lines of the speaker wire a sales guy
>> tried to sell me one time. It was 12 gage wire (overkill, but OK),
>>
> but
>
>> he was very earnest in telling me that the wire was formed such that
>>
> it
>
>> was optimized for electron flow in one particular direction...
>>
>> I'm thinking it's only applied to the AC power cord because anything
>> more complicated would not emerge functional. Component failures
>>
> aside,
>
>> what would that do to solder joints???
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Graham Collins
>> Process Engineer,
>> L-3 Communications Electronic Systems Inc.
>> Halifax
>> (902) 873-2000 ext 6215
>>
>>
>>>>> [log in to unmask] 05/17/07 10:37PM >>>
>>>>>
>> There is a process in High End Audio which purports to enhance
>> equipment performance , called CryoTreatment.
>>
>> In this process the audio gear is subjected to a ramp down to -281F
>>
> (or
>
>> cooler, but not below -320F), followed by a soak of 20 to 40 hours,
>> followed by a specific warm-up cycle back to R/T.
>>
>> It is postulated that the technical explanation for the enormous
>> listening benefits of the process is a re-arrangement or refinement
>>
> of
>
>> the crystal structure of the conductor metals. The effect is so
>>
> powerful
>
>> that objective listeners reported a significant improvement in audio
>> quality when the AC power cord for a preamp was so treated. I doubt
>>
> my
>
>> aging ears are responsive to subtleties of this nature.
>>
>> Anybody care to estimate how an electronic assembly, surface-mount or
>> otherwise, including semiconductor devices, would fare thru this
>> process?
>>
>> Tom Stearns
>> 3 Brander Court
>> Nashua, NH
>> 03063
>>
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