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About a month ago I decided to do a test on one of my VH Audio Pulsar digital cables. All of my interconnects, digital & analog, are Cryo Pulsars terminated with Eichman Silver Bullet plugs.I purchased a pair of WBT Silver Nextgens, from Parts Express, for a test on one digital calble. Cable runs between my Motorolla digital cable box & Meridian G68 pre/pro.
I found the Silver Nextgen to be very nicely designed and easy to install. Much better than the Bullet plug design.
Upon installation of the newly terminated Nextgen / Pulsar digital cable, I immediately noticed a few things: Bass was tighter & stronger, more inner detail, better imaging. I liked what I heard.
I have 15 additional Silver Nextgens on order from Parts Express to eliminated all the Silver Bullet plugs (except subwoofer interconnect) in my system.
I am thinking about replacing my Cryo Pulsar analog wire with something else, but not sure what to go with. I think the Cryo Pulsar wire is fine for digital interconnect.
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...but short of hardwiring your components together, the Bochinno Tomcats are the ultimate realization of RCA plugs...drool :-)Cheers,
(That's Audioquest Cheetah, BTW.)I've been hardwiring cable to equipment for years. My preamp-to-poweramp ICs are soldered to the poweramps, thereby eliminating at least 2 pairs of solder and mechanical connections, and my 3 front-channel speakercables are soldered to my speakers, thereby eliminating... .
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I built a passive with all cables captive except for 3 pairs of RCAs. One is the output to the amp, one is the auxillary input, and one is for HT bypass.The TT cable is soldered to the phono stage. The connection from the phono stage to the passive uses a commercial Mate-N-Loc connector. You can get high quality pins and sockets for these. This is a good inexpensive way to get a low mass connection.
Two questions: why such little outboard caps and why is the power cord not hard wired to the amp?Seriously, I once tried this and it was a major improvement, but I switch equipment too often to do this and to not have some evidence of it left over when I sell the components. I once discussed entire hardwiring everything together including power with my father who repaired tvs and radios. You would have thought that I wanted to go into a volcano! Your way at least allows some detaching.
...both 'propylenes, that replace the inboard 'lytics, that total 135µF. They're temporary; ultimately I'll build or buy a box for them. With changes in the PS's 1st-pole caps, the total capacitance will be around 300 v. the original's 270 (at 1000VDC, which is a problem finding suitable caps).The PC isn't hard wired because, among other reasons, I haven't relocated everything in my system. I plan to eliminate the RPTV in the center and park a new centerchannel speaker and the 2 poweramps in the center...and probably still won't hardwired the PCs, because they're SHORT.
A golden-eared friend once soldered every cable into his tonearms, preamps, poweramps, etc. He said it sounded better for every connector he eliminated, but it sure was difficult to move. My version is still easy AND sounds better.
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Tin-eared audiofool and obsessed landscape fotografer.
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I have hard wired an AudioQuest LeoPard Phono cable directly to the step-up trannies on my EAR834P phono preamp and was blown away with the increase in the resolution of the signal. This was after replacing the stock RCA jacks with high grade copper jacks!!Sure makes it VERY difficult when one wants to move components for whatever reason but it is worth it :-)
Cheers,
...the cable AND equipment are staying for a while. The homely black heatshrink is long because I had these wired into my ASL 'Canes. That amp is much deeper and I had to strip the jacket to properly insulate and anchor the cable. For these AQ1006(845)s, I strain-reliefed with multiple layers...rings...of heatshrink inside and out. The right-channel cable is bright red, of course. :-)Here's a pic of the HomeGrown Audio SC-16 hardwired to an early version of my Eminent Tech. 8s. Visible are the Teflon-airtubed single solid-silver conductors for the tweeter feed.
I'm NOT posting a pic of my current, DIY, LA speaker system and its cable. :-)
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Tin-eared audiofool and obsessed landscape fotografer.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
Having not seen the posts that were deleted in response, I will offer my hopefully non-flammatory opinion/insight (which is worth about half of what you have paid for... ;-) In summary, no - there is no agreement on what constitutes the "best" plugs. As an example, many many folks praise Eichman Silver Bullets. IMO, they are not tops. Oyaides are my current favorite, but that is not universally shared. WBTs are an interesting design and are rather fun to work with, but are expensive and many folks factor cost into their opinions. So find what you like and stick with it. At least until something better comes along. I am happy to confuse things further......
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