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Old 12th Jul 2020, 6:51 pm   #1639
Craig Sawyers
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Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

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In any event, it is being fed by an amplifier with hundreds, or thousands, of solder joints, and a smorgasbord of dissimilar materials in every transistor, resistor and capacitor. And feeds a loudspeaker with a crossover, and a voice coil whose resistance changes quite dramatically with power level (a process called thermal compression). And gives typically 0.3% to >1% harmonic distortion.

So the bit of wire connecting the real world amp to a real world speaker is to first (and n'th order) irrelevant. It needs to be good enough, but no more.

Craig
The Odins do look nice though. I like the lump of wood on each.
I'd make those bits of wood in less than an hour. Out of stuff a whole lot more exotic than theirs. Like bog oak, from drowned oak forests and older than the pyramids, or Cocobolo, Goncalo Alves or Purpleheart.

Craig
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