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Spotted a pair last night on the ABC show "Revenge" - in Nolan's very modern house. They weren't optimally placed since they were right up against a paneled wall.

If "skeptic" = "troll" - then yes. But so far no one has given any actual data besides "I heard the difference" (so it must be true..) I remain skeptical. If someone wants to come over to my house with some wonderful speaker cables and we do a blind A-B, same music, same speakers, same...

You hear differences in digital cables? Really? How does that work? Is one is dropping bits somewhere (I can imagine a big pile of them building up - that might be annoying having to clean up..) Curious minds wanna know.. A really perverse wife might - not that I'd know anything about that.. ;)...

Ah.. let yourself go.. it looks like this is about the only active discussion on MLO.. :D Had you considered that your old cable might be defective? It happens.. a bad solder joint, frayed insulation between the conductor and shield.. Or that your wife is just busting on'ya? ;) BTW - swapped...

Actually it is pretty interesting if you read it and understand his conclusions. A few things in it you may have mistaken for useable data: 1. The bad cables were small conductor size, 18G and 24G vs 12G for the better cables. Given enough length, there is measureable resistance in a small...

Have you READ Roger Russell's page? He does cover inductance and resistance.. What is an "elbo"? It's not a term I'm familiar with.. Meanwhile.. http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM - but I don't think it will work with my RANE: http://www.rane.com/pi14.html...

Read Roger Russell's page.. then provide any explanation for the true A-B speaker wire test listeners failing to identify the Monster cable.. It wasn't an inadequate system problem (McIntosh is generally well regarded), it wasn't that Roger just "read" and shot down the rest. They did a REAL...

Yes - but those are the minimum sizes laid out by the federal construction standards. States/cities can choose to make them thicker, but not any thinner. Chicago doesn't use plastic covered cable - they use Romex (metallic armored cable).. but the conductor size remains the same. Hey - have fun...

No your walls are wired with 14G wire.. good for 15A branch circuits. 12G wire is good for 20A. As someone said - if you expect to hear it, you will. Now about green magic markers on your CDs...

It simply boggles my mind that otherwise reasonable adults believe the power cord can make any difference in sound - if adequately sized for the current being drawn. And on any non-amplified Martin-Logan, the current requirement is in the level of a watt or so.. (W=VxA)... Usual house wiring is...

Bill - will do. I have been ignoring the system for a few days - paint work has started (wife is a slave driver - not giving me Saturday off of painting.. :) ) Don

Perhaps helium filled balloons? http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm#expensive - it's really the bible on speaker wire as far as I'm concerned. I'm running the suggested outdoor low voltage wire he suggests. Good stuff - 12 gauge and it was free, left over from some outdoor lighting I...

Figured I'd report in - since people often pose questions and never post the solution they found.. The Marantz 140 amp is working just fine with the Sources.. The front meters rarely make it above 1/3rd scale even at loud listening volumes. I used to be able to pin the meters with the...

Not to be a smartass.. but.. http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm

One thing I may have forgotten to mention.. despite the ceiling in the room being low (about 7'8") - it also is an acoustic tile ceiling. Not the type hung from a metal frame - the kind of old 12"x12" tiles. The tiles on it were put there about 35 years ago by me.. and were considered top of...

I'll revise my comment about sound-stage and definition. Just put on Carmina Burana, Carl Orff. Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting. Telarc disk.. and it's wonderful. Can pick out individual voices and instruments. What a wonderful recording.. I'd forgotten just how good it is...

I was quite surprised also. Well, I held the phone at my nose, and then I tried next to my left ear (while watching the screen.. :) ) With the microphone pointing right between the two speakers. Didn't make a huge difference when I moved it a bit. Calibration was a question. Uncorrected -...

Some measurements I ended up buying the "RTA Audio Analyzer" (by Radonsoft) - looks to be a good tool, and I did some fiddling around. First I created 3 WAV files - using their tool - one pink-noise, one white-noise and one a frequency sweep. I first did a calibration of the Android phone (and...

Found some info myself - the jury decision on the smaller foam traps - worthless.. http://redspade-audio.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-small-foam-traps-actually-work.html Bummer. Guess it's off to find some OC-703 sheets, and try just placing it around in the corners and see what it does..

It seems a rather common design.. but was hoping someone had tried them and might have some comments. I'm a bit occupied with redoing the rest of the room which will cut into any time I'd have to roll my own.. so..