In Reply to: Maybe cheap-Jack's one of these who believe ... posted by andyr on November 21, 2006 at 02:54:17:
Hi.and shorten the ICs to shortest lengths possible, I bet you dollar for dollar you'll find it sounds much much better.
I had done this for my audiophile friend in similar situation whereby
he ran a 20ft IC from his phonostage & linestage seated next to where he sat to his two monoblocks located next to the loudspeakers, some 15ft apart.He spent big bucks for Goertz twisted flat-ribbon copper ICs, no shield, but so what? The inter-conductor capacitance alone on this long run, even without shielding, is big enough to make the sound dull & lack of life. Once I relocted the phonostage & linestage next to the power amps, & replaced the long long flat ribbon ICs with short 4N silver ICs, life, air & dynamcis came right back.
FYI, not many pre-amps can handle long ICs. So don't expect your premap can as well.
Unless using a transmission line system in btween the premap & power amps in question as I did it for a HiFi concerts in concert halls in the past, long run ICs are not recommended.
c-J
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Follow Ups
- Wait until you move your preamp next to your power amps - cheap-Jack 08:14:58 11/21/06 (12)
- I used to run long speaker cables ... - andyr 14:30:28 11/21/06 (4)
- Shorter the signal cables the better. - cheap-Jack 11:13:28 11/22/06 (0)
- All cables should be shortest possible, otherwise .. - cheap-Jack 08:14:35 11/22/06 (2)
- I agree, except for one weird anomaly ... - andyr 23:54:58 11/22/06 (1)
- 6-8ft speaker cable is pretty "short". - cheap-Jack 07:43:22 11/23/06 (0)
- Re: long ICs need not be a problem - mls-stl 14:13:38 11/21/06 (5)
- Totally different ball game, my friend. - cheap-Jack 08:30:11 11/22/06 (3)
- Re: everything's a compromise - mls-stl 11:25:10 11/22/06 (2)
- How "better"? Can you explain it technically? - cheap-Jack 12:20:14 11/22/06 (1)
- Re: Putting words in my mouth - mls-stl 20:22:21 11/23/06 (0)
- Re: long ICs need not be a problem - zanash 23:47:57 11/21/06 (0)
- Re: Wait until you move your preamp next to your power amps - badman 10:57:50 11/21/06 (0)