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Up till 3 A.M. lately

Neff,

On several days over the past week and a half I have been up till 3 A.M., listening to the sounds of wire changes in a receiver I am working on. This was the B+, B- and Ground supply runs mostly, and there was a WHALE of a positive difference when I was done optimizing the piece late last night.

So you stated this :

" I assume power wiring makes no difference. "

From my experiments, I would say you are GROSSLY underestimating things with power wiring.

I think wire implementations is one of the single biggest hinderences to present builders getting optimal results in audio.

There are TWO questions to answer with wire:

1) First, how MUCH wire should be used ?

(so as to couple energy internally, have a linear and optimal transfer function.)

2) Second, what TYPE of wire, solid or stranded ?

These are "two camps", and after working with both, I personally tend to prefer stranded, actually, litz type, specifically multiple TCSS runs, which allows me to get (1) enough wire to couple well between critical points while avoiding the "too big a wire gauge sound" and (2) the sonic advantages of nuancing and wider bandwitdth stranded wire can provide, that I do NOT hear with thin solid wires. Thin solid wires play coherently to my ears, but only in the middle frequencies.

This is a great subject for this Forum. Tell Henry he (and everyone else) can't begin to measure this, its foolish, as Dan Lau pointed out below..... use your ears and it becomes an art.

Jeff Medwin



Edits: 04/08/11 04/08/11
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