Degree of importance for ICs

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nathanm

Degree of importance for ICs
« Reply #20 on: 17 Sep 2004, 04:44 pm »
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I don't suppose that it would be a good idea to connect two shorter IC's with an adoptor?


Oh for the love of all that's holy don't do it!!!  That could destroy the universe, or worse.  Once I tried that.  I was listening to a beautifully recorded CD and I wanted to move the preamp closer to my chair so I could adjust the volume from the sweet spot.  I purchased two female-to-female RCA adapters and linked two pairs of ICs together.  With the preamp closer I was able to adjust the volume, however the music was utterly destroyed.  There was a 20db per octave rolloff starting at 8000Hz, 3rd and 4th order harmonic distortion increased by 35% and a 15db spike occured at 60Hz.  Then the ground started to shake, the walls of my house cracked and a crevice opened up in the floor revealing a long passageway to Hell.  There, the souls of the damned cried out for me to remove the RCA adpater or the universe would be destroyed.  I did so and all was put back in order.

So don't mess around with adapters, at least it will make your CDs sound like crap and at worst it will destroy the universe.

Fife12

Degree of importance for ICs
« Reply #21 on: 17 Sep 2004, 04:56 pm »
I agree with nathanm. I too once tested connecting 2 IC's with an adapter and the sound was much thinner. The more adapters and connections there are, the more interference you are likely to get.

Another one box solution is the Linn Unidisk. Neat but not my cup of tea.

Mudjock

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« Reply #22 on: 17 Sep 2004, 05:43 pm »
My first impulse was to dismiss the Palladium interconnect as garbage (albeit expensive garbage) - but as I have been thinking about it a little more, it might make some sense. :idea:   Electrical resistance is not the limiting factor in interconnect performance, as it is in speaker cable performance.  The goal of the interconnect is preservation of a small signal from effects such as inductance, capacitance and other perturbations that may be caused by things such as grain boundaries, surface defects or impurities in the wire.  

Although I doubt that Palladium (expensive, stiff wire) is a very practical solution :roll: , it may offer some advantages over silver or copper with regard to the latter parameters.  It is, for example, more stable against oxidation.

siowyn

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Degree of importance for ICs
« Reply #23 on: 23 Jan 2006, 02:45 pm »
I tried putting the best IC at the source(ie from CDP tp Preamp) vs from Preamp tp amp. I found the latter to give the most difference/benefits. Not sure why but found that to be so. The same goes for power cables too.
I use a Modwright pre, mono extreme, and Benchmark DAC1
I tried the RS palladium cable in place of Slinkylink Silvers

_scotty_

Degree of importance for ICs
« Reply #24 on: 23 Jan 2006, 06:21 pm »
siowyn, actually your findings are a logical outcome of doing the least damage to the signal or passing the most information to pre-amp and the rest of the equipment downstream from the source.  If you loose information at the very beginning to an inferior cable between the the source and the preamp a great cable between the preamp and power amp won't bring it back once it's gone.
Scotty