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#11401 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Listening at the moment to Eds pass B1 buffer pre, it's a very interesting little thing.
Seems to give the f5 a kick up the arse.
It doesn't seem to do subtle quite like the khozmo passive, but then again, there isn't a few hundred quids worth of bits in it......

And Ed said its only been used a couple of times in the last 10 years, so it might want some hours on it for it to bed itsself back in

I'll carry on listening and enjoying
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#11402 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Really need to get myself some new cables. They are all just any old shite I had laying around, or bits of spare cable with phono plugs grafted on when I ran out of cables.
Look at em funny, move em slightly, and there are bursts of hum and noise.
Probably all the plugs are shagged out and the solder joints are dry/cracked/intermittent from 20 years of being plugged in and pulled out.
I must admit that I can't remember the last time I bought a pair of cables, I think I was still living with mi mam and dad when I did......... So it's been a while.
Any recommendations for reasonable cables that are reasonable money? Buying a new loom won't be cheap whatever I go with, as there are a lot of shonky old cables to replace
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#11403 Re: Nothing In Particular

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TBH, I mostly use Amazon Basics cables now - they are cheap and pretty good quality, plus you can return them if any problems (or you just don't like them).

Their speaker cable is really not bad and I just stick decent banana plugs or whatever on them. Their other cables, e.g. phono/RCA stuff isn't bad either, likewise the HDMI/DP stuff.
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#11404 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Cool, thanks for that nick I'll look into that
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#11405 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Bluddy hell, just spilt a bottle of beer over my Macbook Pro. :shock:

Thank gawd it had a keyboard cover on it, stopped the beer getting into the gizzards.

Been a while since I moved that fast. :D
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#11406 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Ant wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 4:00 pm Cool, thanks for that nick I'll look into that
This is the speaker cable and plugs I'm using:



Yes, the speaker cable is copper-plated aluminium, but it's pretty good.

There's some nice pure OFC Cu cables there too. e.g.:
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#11407 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Ali Tait wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 5:32 pm Bluddy hell, just spilt a bottle of beer over my Macbook Pro. :shock:

Thank gawd it had a keyboard cover on it, stopped the beer getting into the gizzards.

Been a while since I moved that fast. :D
You spilt beer, and you're concerned about something else? :-D
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#11408 Re: Nothing In Particular

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pre65 wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:55 pm
pre65 wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:51 pm
M4 countersunk stainless, or pop rivets ?
M4 x 12 countersunk torx head A2 stainless, at least with torx I don't feel the need to line the heads up all the same.
I've done pop rivets for that, doesn't look good. :shock:

So yeah.
 
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#11409 Re: Nothing In Particular

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simon wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 7:14 pm
Ali Tait wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 5:32 pm Bluddy hell, just spilt a bottle of beer over my Macbook Pro. :shock:

Thank gawd it had a keyboard cover on it, stopped the beer getting into the gizzards.

Been a while since I moved that fast. :D
You spilt beer, and you're concerned about something else? :-D
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#11410 Re: Nothing In Particular

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simon wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 7:14 pm
Ali Tait wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 5:32 pm Bluddy hell, just spilt a bottle of beer over my Macbook Pro. :shock:

Thank gawd it had a keyboard cover on it, stopped the beer getting into the gizzards.

Been a while since I moved that fast. :D
You spilt beer, and you're concerned about something else? :-D
Undoubtably the fast move was to save the beer! :wink: :wink:
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#11411 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Ant, if you want to build your own new interconnects, I have here just over four metres of Sharkwire (blue) Superior Definition OFC 41/0.12mm signal cable No.SG12E2. Shielded twin core. This was well regarded back in the day when I bought it from Maplin. You are welcome to it free gratis. Just PM me to remind me of your address and I’ll post to you.
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#11412 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Greg wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 10:05 pm Undoubtably the fast move was to save the beer! :wink: :wink:
Lol
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#11413 Re: Nothing In Particular

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:mrgreen: plenty more in the fridge.
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#11414 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Just gone back over to the khozmo passive from Eds b1.
A more couth and relaxing listen, more natural, but missing the kick up the arse, the immediacy and poke that the b1 gives. And the extra bass heft it gives which I was expecting
I was getting abit fatigued with the b1, but I'm sure that that can be tweaked out of the b1 with a few component changes
Alas it ain't mine so I'm not about to go poking around in it and alter anything, (other than adding the power switch which I did after asking first) and it doesn't alter the fact that it is a very impressive little thing, especially given that it's the original circuit down to the 25k linear maplins pot.
I can definitely see why so many people swear by these
I think i'll definitely have to get myself a board to play with :mrgreen:

Next thing to try is to use it as a straight buffer with the pot wide open and see what it sounds like with the khozmo in front of it
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#11415 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Seems better, p'raps that 25k Lin pot has some hardness to it that I was hearing, course it could be the effect of the extra set of cables...
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