Recent content by irb

Ah, cable threads. :rolleyes: They always make me think of this:

If you're up for quite a lot of faff, how about something like this: Not that I've actually tried it myself😂!

No. £2,000 for a 3m pair of speaker cables? If I had a spare 2k, I can think of better things to do with it. But don't you find it a little suspicious that a company which previously said you can't do better than a basic (non-audio sourced) cable suddenly changes their mind, just as a large...

😂 We have a lot in common then.

Fixed this for you!

Well, yes.

That happened to me as well - Raymond Cooke editions too. Still actually shudder thinking about it, and it was over 20 years ago.

Bargain!

Never took to the K or the J, myself. Liked the E though. 😂 Which illustrates how tricky it is recommending gear for someone else, when we don't really know what style of sound they like.

Yes, I'm sure that's right. It comes in various grades, of course. Good info from one of the manufacturers here: https://www.ferrotec-global.com/download/02audio_ferrofluids.pdf

One of the reasons for using ferrofluid is to help cool the voice coil. Tweeters can overheat, if overdriven, or if an amp oscillates or distorts a lot. So that's why tweeters without ferrofluid might be less reliable. Ferrofluid also damps a driver's fundamental resonance. Without it, you may...

Wow, yes. Someone should have told Phil Cunningham (and at least one fiddler) to sit that one out, though.

Everything I've read on the subject supports what James says. I've read that it's possible to use solid timbers for sides and top/bottom, if the grain is running in the same direction, because the principal movement will be across the grain, and all the pieces will shrink/expand together. Not...

According to Wikipaedia, Ivor started a degree in mechanical engineering at Strathclyde but dropped out. It doesn't say how long he stuck it out. Maybe cre009 knows - he seems to have lots of info on Ivor's bio.

Ok, I'm pretty surprised by that! I'd read that he went to Israel, but I didn't realise it was over that period, and for so long. That makes your story even harder to swallow, I think. You're arguing, on the basis of Nigel Person's second-hand stories about Ivor working on a turntable during...