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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:38
AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Digital
Interconnect Review
There you go - if you ever get the chance to repeat the test with
the
Siltech do try it - I'll swear that the female vocals on "Carry on up the
Charts" by The Beautiful South sound much clearer with the Siltech HF6
(£150) versus the Supra EFF-I (£45). You might also want to try it using a
"proper" CD transport rather than a DVD player. While my Arcam DV-88 works
as well as my Audiolab 8000CD when used as a transport (it isn't as good as
a straight CD player - and in fact the late Bob Tomalski compared
it to
the Meridian 508 when used as a pure CD transport), my old Panasonic DVD
A350 was pants in comparison. I'm not saying that your results are invalid
-
just suggesting a way that you *may* be able to hear the same difference
that I *think* I heard.
There are those (not me) that say bi-wiring makes no difference so
it
really is whatever works for you. If you ever get the chance to borrow a
second 10P try bi-amping. If you think that bi-wiring makes a significant
improvement, bi-amping will knock your socks off. The best way to do it is
use one stereo amp for the left speaker and one for the right speaker -
that
way you avoid any possibility of cross-talk between channels. It also means
that you can use long interconnects and short speaker cables. I bi-amp my
centre speaker in exactly that fashion. Somewhere I've got a picture of my
Home Cinema setup which shows the power amp stacks behind my speakers, I'll
post it somewhere when I find it. My main speakers are bi-amped using four
mono-blocks which I managed to secure for half price when Tag Mclaren were
getting rid of their stocks of Audiolab 8000MXs. It made a massive
improvement over the single 8000PX I had been using - and again I got to
put
the power amps right behind the speakers using short 1m lengths of
speaker cable.