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In Reply to: Wait until you move your preamp next to your power amps posted by cheap-Jack on November 21, 2006 at 08:14:58:
If long ICs were a fatal flaw, recording studios would have a real problem making recordings. Think of all the situations where microphone cables and preamp cables run all over the place before they get to the recording device.The point is to have the proper cables for the situation in question. One can certainly use the wrong cable or have a poor match with the equipment, but those issues can be addressed if one is paying attention to the basics.
As with most things in a home system, the person needs to experiment a bit and come to his own conclusion about what works best for his situation since he is the one who has to live with his handiwork.
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Hi.Recording studios run long long mic cable to the mixer consoles, all in 3-wire balanced transmission (typically 600R) format.
Any dip/hump of the audio frequency spectrum due to the long line transmission are compensated with the frequency equalizer & noise filter/limiters built in the console. There is sophiscated signal processing for the signal to go through before being recorded onto the master tape.
But in home audio, our ICs are mostly unbalanced signal transfer
& go straight to the amps. The only passive or 'helpless' way to for us consumers to handle the signal loss situation is to cut short all the signal paths. Any other way is only a compromise.c-J
> Any other way is only a compromise.Short interconnects may well be desireable for certain reasons, but they are just one of an endless set of compromises that are made in any system, whether home or pro. (I worked in professional sound reinforcement for several years, so am comfortable making that statement.)
Some people have a system arrangement in their homes that require some distance between the music source and the speakers. Long speaker cables have their own set of drawbacks. In a prior home I had a 40' run between the source and the speakers. As I recommended in a prior message, I followed my own advice and experimented. I tried the amps at the music source with short ICs and long speaker cables. Then I tried long IC's and short speaker cables. In that particular incarnation, the long IC/short speaker cable simply sounded better. So I set it up that way and ceased to worry about it further.
Sometimes it is too easy for audiophiles to become obsessed with a single factor in a less-than-ideal setting and ignore options that represent a better overall result.
Hi.If you can't come up with some technical reasoning why a long IC can sound better than a short IC, I will dismiss your comment as imaginative.
Or had there been big sonic issues already existing that you needed to mask it up with the huge capacitance+inductance of a long long IC.
Who wants to run a 40-ft long speaker cable, anyway for home audio?
PA & home audio are two different things to handle, my friend.
> why a long IC can sound better than a short ICI did not say a long IC sounds better than a short one. What I said is if one of two cables has to be long it is not a given as to which combo will yield the better results in a particular situation. That is hardly the same as saying long IC's just sound better. Speaker cables have their own issues with length and characteristics vary widely by brand. There is a vast number of potential combinations of equipment, cables and speakers that one might be dealing with.
As for the 40' run, it is interesting you can be dismissive of the system placement issues that someone you know nothing about may face. Perhaps you should change your moniker to "Karnac the Magnificent."
spot on !
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