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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:
but switched to long ICs. Because of the layout of my room I have to choose between one and the other! :-((My tube-output preamp can certainly cope with these ICs.
As you say, capacitance is a killer for long ICs (long speaker cables as well, in fact) so I took care to make up a low-capacitance IC. I also went to a great deal of effort to space the shield well away from the signal wires. No "dull & lifeless" here, mate!! :-))
Regards,
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Hi.FYI, the IC connecting my LP turntable to my tube phono+linestage is only 1-ft long, which I custom-built with 4N silver conductors.
For the best sound, we got to spend sometime in our equipment arrangement to get the best sound via shortest cabling.
For the same reason, I custom design-built my audio rack to provide the phono+linestage the centre position of the rack so that the signal cables from/to other equipment can be kept shortest runs.
My turntable is placed immediately next to the equipment rack on a separate 150lb concrete block base support, in the same horizonal plane of the phono-preamp so that the crucial TT to pre-amp IC can be kept shortest as said above.
For best sound possible, don't take anything for granted.
Hi.It is a compromise technically & sonically.
when I owned Naim amps, evidently they needed a 6' or 8' length of pseaker cable to provide them with just the right amount of inductive loading!!?? They sounded worse with really short speaker cables.Regards,
Hi.When I said "short" speaker cables, I mean not over 12ft, equal length for EACH stereo channel.
I used to run some 15ft speaker cable each channel. But when I reduced the cable to about 10ft after I design-built a new audio rack for my gears, as explained earlier, I found it helps make sound better, among other upgrades, e.g. power line filter, etc. etc.
Yes, some, though not many, amps are designed with a dummy load incorporating a certain capacitance+inductance+resistive network to make way for the amp to work 'comfortably' with most commercial brandname speakers. But I am surprised your amp would be getting so
'sensitive' to really short speaker cables.There could be other pre-existing conditions in your system that could your amp getting so sensitive to too short speaker cable length.
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