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In the latter half of May 1992, Santa Cruz had warm/hot weather. That warmth made my college housemates (we were all juniors) lazy. We were having a tough time studying, and we were only open-minded about classes in the air-conditioned classrooms. We were kicking back, staying hydrated, and listening to Kenny Loggins' "Conviction Of The Heart."
Then we heard a knock on the door. It was our ground-floor neighbor, Natalia. And she had lugged up the stairs an infant carrier. My roommate Eric gawked, "I didn't know you were pregnant. When did you have a baby?!"
The normal-bodied (neither fat nor rail-thin) and 20-year-old Natalia laughed, "No, silly, this is my new baby brother."
Then her parents and another brother, who may have been 8 or 9, came up. Natalia elbowed Eric, and smirked, "My old folks got frisky, and made a mistake."
Natalia's mom, who was only in her early-40s, then smiled, "No, honey -- you were the mistake. Love you lots, though!"
Natalia's family stayed overnight at her apartment, and then drove home to L.A. for the Memorial Day weekend. And that long weekend, I went home to San Francisco, for a friend's dad, who was getting remarried. My friends came over, and that was really the first time they got to use my NAD/Sony ES/Muse/AudioQuest/Paradigm stereo. Shelly crimped some banana plugs onto the AQ Type 4 speaker cable, and - voila! - everyone was swept up by the music.
Since then, I've always had a soft spot for the ol' AQ Type 4, and have always wanted something else, which would take the baton from the Type 4. We shall see where the CV-4, a product of the 2000s and 2010s, stands.
The crimp-on bananas fit well enough, into the Cardas binding posts on the back of the Muse Model 100 power amp. You merely twisted the bare wire leads, and inserted them into the Paradigm 5SE, which had those awful spring-loaded, push-in-and-lock terminals.
This CV-4 came with BFA bananas at the amp end. If you find that they are too loose, carefully take a small poker or knitting needle, and slightly pry open the "alligator teeth."
Even with the four A23 batteries, the DBS-equipped CV-4 is lightweight. When the CV-4 dangles from even the lightest loudspeaker, it should not cause any stress, or dislodge, shift, or move the speaker.
Just like Natalia lifting the infant carrier up the stairs to my college apartment, lift the CV-4 off of the floor. If you place or lay the CV-4 on the floor (especially carpets), noise may be introduced.
When I came back to UCSC after Memorial Day 1992, we had those year-end meetings in the community center. Hahaha, when we were instructed to name our biggest accomplishment of the school year, one senior (no, not the guy above) wrote in green ink, "I finally lost my virginity!"
Yeah, yeah, when threading a cable through a Cable Tower, audiophiles like to make sexual jokes. This CV-4 had been on an audiodharma Cable Cooker for four days. It sounded gray, dull, muffled, soft, airless, and lazy. Therefore, optimal Cook time must have been closer to three days, which is merely a long weekend.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - AudioQuest CV-4, Part 5 - Luminator 00:52:48 10/15/20 (0)
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