Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades
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I think for 50 feet the interconnects probably should be balanced. At shorter lengths I would prefer single-ended.
Gryphons and VTLs are true-balanced.
Not necessarily, it depends on the electronics. Personally I prefer SE over the additional circuitry and transformers associated with balanced.
david
Oh, you get a "discounted" rate on each extra foot. Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves.
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The entrance to my room is guarded by Mel and Miles.
the inside is guarded by Mozart and my buddy Kato. Don’t let Mozart’s size fool you, he is tough.
Ron is caving to paranoia. Unless you hear a problem then SE is fine at that distance. Both can be tried semi easily.
But I can see a lot of audiophile staying up at night concerned the boogeyman is somehow doing something bad so they'd switch to balanced even if there was no auditory concern.
Personally, Ron, I still think that at some point when all is nearly settled in, it would be interesting to hear what happens when you put all-out-assault-serious-air-moving subs expertly setup to drive your system further (from 27-32hz down). First, expertly set up at that frequency level, I can imagine discontinuity of cone vs planar will be much more difficult to discern...and it will be more about raw frequency/phase/volume adjustment finetuning and room interaction.
As for air movement, having spent a little time thinking about this and speaking with people who have heard multiple kinds of setups, I do think that there is something to be said for effortless, serious air movement at those levels in terms of pure spacial cues...sense of hall, ambiance, the surround of the jazz club...for me, the sense of that which we have (there is more that is achievable, but it is already palpable in our system) is not something I would wish to go without.
You no doubt will already have this with your Pendragons...as ever in this hobby...the question is whether adding something serious to your already sensational system will take you even further.
Every time I have compared balanced to signal ended, balanced sounded better.i used unbalanced for many years but once I went balanced there’s no return.
How can this be an absolute maxim? David is correct that balanced requires additional circuitry and transformers.
I agree, Lloyd! It would be a very fun experiment. I would go for a REL No.25 "six-pack"!
Well, you don’t have to use transformers. It’s basically one or the other in each piece.
Well . . . there are a lot of LED ceiling lights, Lutron dimmers, automatic night lights and wi-fi floating around the listening room.
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That might be a fair distinction, but a distinction without a practical difference. If you use the old school method of setting an AM radio receiver between broadcast stations and walking around you'll generally find a lot of noise in the "air."
I use mcintosh pre and power amplifiers and they are fully balanced.I noticed a big improvement going to fully balanced interconnects after years of using single ended rca.I was even told this by the dealer that all mcintosh sounds better fully balanced.in your case it might be different Ron.
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