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Lucy! You ga some 'splainin' to do...

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Posted by Robert on May 8, 1999 at 15:26:12

In Reply to: Some DIY cable reviews... posted by Rob on May 7, 1999 at 12:43:02:

Rob,

Your post is pregnant with unanswered questions, some of them asked by Jon Risch-- and some not, such as whether the soldering of the cables were done by different people or the same person, what's his/her/their level of soldering experience? Also...

You write that you post this info "at the request of *some* of those responsible for their DIY designs," I am curious how many designerS requested this?

I'd like to know the name of the title and track of the CD you used? We all want to try it ourselves, ya know!

You refer to Jon Risch's cable as his "ultimate IC" design, but I get the impression that you didn't specifically use 89248 as he strongly recommends in his DIY note, how come?

On the other hand, the sound of your DIY 89259/solid FEP IC is not too different than what I encountered when I *first* plugged in my 89259/89248 ICs, which leads me to ask what kind of break-in times were used for these cables?

I felt the soundstage from my Rat Shack ICs was much larger than the 89259/89248 ICs I replaced them with. That is, until the Risch design ICs were broken-in after several days. It should also be noted Jon Risch has stated that he didn't notice any break-in effects in his system, but that others might.

If you can, check out the thread running on the SoundStage cables board about the difficulties of testing 2 cables (much less 6).

I'm sure you had a lot of fun doin' this test and I'm glad you shared the results. If we can find out where you got the sat cable here in the US (you're in Florida, right?) we could try Thorsten's design as well.

Robert

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