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In Reply to: RE: My very first high end speaker system was the Fulton Js posted by Michael Samra on January 12, 2017 at 12:25:52
Did you use the Fulton recommended "jumper cables" for speaker wire? He was one of the first to suggest that cables made a difference.
Dave
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at San Jose's Garland Audio in the late 1970's, Bob Fulton walked in lugging a 28'-long pair of his Golds (not an easy task, given their bulk and weight).
"What do you have there, Bob?" grinned John Garland. "Suspension cables for the Golden Gate Bridge?"
Bob frowned. And then talked antenna theory as we bolted the lug ends into banana-plugs so we could attach the pain-to-maneuver cable to Maggie 1D's and an ARC D-150. We fired up the system, listened...and John didn't laugh at Bob anymore.
Jim
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I used Fulton Golds(given to me by Bob when he was at Holt's in Pa) for years until I noticed they were turning green. Their biggest problem was the highs. But a friend showed me a trick that improved them noticeably.
What was the trick?
Dave
Wrap the cables in foam pipe insulation partly to minimize vibration affects. Then wrap the two cables together with ties. Then the positive signal goes down one set of cables. The negative down the other. The spacing caused by the insulation reduces inductance improving the top end(Fulton Gold had increasing inductance as frequency increased). Of course you need to use short lengths of other wire at each end to connect to the right and left on the amp and the speakers. That's not a bad idea with Fulton Golds in any format since it was so unwieldy and could be a pain to connect to amps or speakers any way.
Since the oxidation of my Fulton Golds I now use short speaker cables with my amp between the speakers and long interconnects from preamp to amp which is working quite well.
In those days I used Monster cable.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
As most of us did. There wasn't much choice.
Dave
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