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@hendrikvr, and YES I do want my speakers on springs. Unless you've heard springs properly employed as found in the Townshend products then you don't really have an opinion. I said I would be in the country and we could try listening to a cable but you did not accept the challenge. On my...

@chrisc, Hi Chris perhaps try a set of the Vibrapods. They have 5 different models and you choose according to the weight of the component. Available for R695/set of 4 I placed some model 1 under my line stage and model 2 under the Oppo and must say impressed with the result.

@hendrikvr, I'm sorry this all went over your head. Understand I don't think I can hear a difference, I know I can and so does my wife as does 2 other people who I've recently demonstrated the platform to. The Vibrapods also clean up the sound. Instead of continually sniping at me from the...

Using spikes is a mistake from the 80's that's gained a reputation they don't deserve. Spikes do not isolate they couple and being sharp couple well to whatever they touch and they certainly do allow vibration to be transmitted in both directions. Using springs to isolate works. Anyone tried...

Hi Lenny, if you provide your phone number I will contact you and we can possibly arrange something. I am taking a short holiday in SA accompanied by my Omnimic V2 measurement system and leaving to return to Ireland 16th April. I am staying with friends in Morningside area but unfortunately...

@922-zn Hi Preshen, I may be able to help. Where in KZN are you? Charles

Well not really a challenge, maybe an invite. Some of you may have seen my post about my DIY cable I compared to an $5500 Gryphon digital interconnect where it easily held its own and bettered it in some areas. I will be visiting Durban, SA in a few days arriving 24th March and bringing with me...

What areas would you suggest?

@bbe22, I have not heard the Path resistors yet but someday I will, same for Duelund. It's really a case of everything matters. I recently found a second hand Townshend Platform which I placed under my Oppo 103. Huge improvement, it just cleans up the sound which seems more relaxed because of...

@avnerm, unfortunately I do not know the values required. I have L-Pads in circuit to set the balance and now want to remove them and replace the series and parallel values with quality fixed resistors. I'm in Ireland but will be visiting SA in 3 weeks and will know the values then. I may...

Hi all, the noise I'm talking about is not a hum or his that you'll hear, it's self noise from the wire inside the casting loosing mechanical integrity over time and the steel end caps used at each end. I do not want steel in the signal path. When replacing a bunch of sand-cast resistors with a...

Just been in their site. They only stock the usual white cement ones in 10W rating. Thanks for the suggestion.

@KenMasters, that bumblebee comment was an attempt to add levity to the discussion. Taken from the article you linked to : The problem lies in the difference between insect flight and airplane flight. This pertinent sentence closely describes how some 'scientists' when it comes to cables...

@handsome, the sand-cast resistors I've used mostly have steel end caps and I find them noisy, thanks.

@chrisc, thanks, I will be measuring the series and parallel resistance of an L-Pad to replace them with fixed values and unfortunately I'm in Ireland at the moment and will not know tose values until I get to visit SA in a few weeks. Appreciate the offer.

Does anyone know where to buy decent resistors like Mills or any 10W or12W resistors. Anything except those noisy white sand-cast things. Non inductive if possible, these go in the tweeter circuit, thanks.

@AlleyCat, a good post from 'Air' including your highlights. My experience proves to me, subjectively, IMO and all that, that the quality of the metallurgy and cable geometry and also the dielectric constant are the determinants of the resulting sound. Whether the sound is something you like is...

I'm in agreement with @KenMasters on this. This heading caught my eye but after reading 2 pages I could not carry on. He mentions as fact things that simply are not true. A flash look at the rest showed no frequency response measurement to back up some of his absurd claims. Take just one...

I never raced my car on a track, this was my daily transport and did not want to bend it. I enjoyed punishing the Gordinis and the just released Datsun 1600sss. I did a few races on SIDECAR as passenger which was exciting and scary same time especially coming out of Angels into the straight.

Cars and sailing when young. I had the fastest Renault R8 in Durban, the only thing that could possibly beat me would be an R8 with a full race cam. I modified the engine and suspension with advice from the LaReserve brothers who raced R8 at Roy Hesketh, Natal. The Ford Anglias and Mini Coopers...