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Ill stick with my Valve H J Leak Stereo 20 and Varislope amp, an old garrard 301 deck with SME arm, and my Lowther PM6 corner acousta speakers, all new in the 60s/70s. and still performing great--(for my Ears) Havent a clue what the speaker cable is thickish dozens of cstrands of thin copper. I have a 300 CD capacity Sony changer attached and of course a cassette!!!
Rock on Tommy.
I also have a Dennon -- not in the league im afraid
Stan
Rock on Tommy.
I also have a Dennon -- not in the league im afraid
Stan
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Done and ordered, absolute bargin at £100 for the pair. Dual voice coils at 2 ohms each so will allow me to wire into amp at 4 ohms per channel and then set up through the mini DSP.
There you go another project for the holidays
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Done and ordered, absolute bargin at £100 for the pair. Dual voice coils at 2 ohms each so will allow me to wire into amp at 4 ohms per channel and then set up through the mini DSP.
There you go another project for the holidays
What mini dsp do you have? I have 2 2x4's and a mini digi but I want the new 6x8 that's designed for in car use
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Iv got mini dsp 2 x 4. Can set it up simply with full range house speakers and an out put for a sub on each channel so left and right full range with a sub on each channel
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We've got a 30 year old Aiwa stack with a Technics multi cd player on top, sounds fine to me. I came in one day and my wife was listening to it, I asked if it sounded alright to her and she said fine why ? One of the speakers had come adrift and she didn't notice 
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We've got a 30 year old Aiwa stack with a Technics multi cd player on top, sounds fine to me. I came in one day and my wife was listening to it, I asked if it sounded alright to her and she said fine why ? One of the speakers had come adrift and she didn't notice
I have a decent standard audio system with all music on a NAS that is dead easy to use via the remote app on the IOS devices, but 'indoors would rather put a CD into a nasty tinny squark box which offends my ears greatly.
Speaker cables don't make the difference that some allege, once you chuck out that horrible bell wire provided as standard. If you have enough copper between amp and driver, it is going to work well and no amount of oxygen free or fancy jacketing will sound any better. The key is being able to control the drivers accurately, starting, stopping and reversing rather than them flopping about due to lack of current capacity in the cables.
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We had a Dansette valve record player which had 78, 45, 33 and 16rpm speeds, never new what the 16rpm speed was for.
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I have some "directional" cable too. It was a good bit cheaper than that though, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. I am intrigued about how electrons are able to see the arrows. Otherwise it was good stuff with a pair of heavy conductors seperated with a web of plastic. Branded Puresonic or some such at under a pound per metre from CPC if I remember correctly.
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When you speak in the car the sound waves cause the speaker diaphragm to vibrate which induces back EMF, the directional speaker cables act as a diode stopping the back EMF damaging the output stage of the amplifier.
...and if you believe that, I can sell you some cable for £2k per metre
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Wasn't there some silver loaded mains cable at a hundred quid a metre on sale recently? Shame about the miles of standard copper all the way back from the house though. ;-)
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Russ Andrews has been around a long time selling high end cables..too rich for my pockets and what I am looking for in hi fi..most of my stuff is 1970s vintage...Quad, Spendor, Pink Triangle etc. I worked for and built Triangles as my friend set the business up.
I have rebuilt all my Quad stuff, built a pair of LS 3/5a's, and bi-wired the Spendors using silver Van De Hul cables but that is about as complex as I get.
I have rebuilt all my Quad stuff, built a pair of LS 3/5a's, and bi-wired the Spendors using silver Van De Hul cables but that is about as complex as I get.
Hmmm....... a wee bit patronising???
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I knew the link would be Russ Andrews before I even hovered over it.Does any one actually pay £1.5K for a metre of cable? - link they did have some bargain 13A fuses for only £25 each, should be suitable for welders
Snake oil, and he's been peddling it for 30 years!
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My first ever record was UB40 red red wine 12" singleI've got one, first and last record I ever bought. Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits, £5.00 in Tesco, paid for with my 6th birthday money. CDs came in right around that time and I swapped to them from that point. Shame as I always envied my Dads record collection and knew they were special (never touched them) the same can't be said for his cassette tape collection, when I was a toddler I helped myself to a rack holding about 40 to use the cases as scoops for digging up the flower bed, they broke really fast (obviously) but that was ok because there were so many. When all the cases were broke I used the tapes themselves, they were much tougher than the cases. How I've made it to age 36 I'll never know...
Love you Dad.
