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Re: Review C. VenHaus DIY silver interconnects

female RCA is right on the board. No go on the pre-amp. Power amp is slated for the Mega Klaus upgrade in a few months, so I won't mess with that. There will be an active crossover in the path when they come back with a pair of brothers (4 monos), which is also when I'll need a few more IC's

The pre-amp is also going to be replaced soon - a Bottlehead Foreplay is planned for late winter, and in spring, I think I may compare it with an Odyssey Tempest.

I was thinking of directly connecting the ICs to my current pre-amp because it has some sort of flaky problem that when cold I sometimes lose my left channel until i wiggle on the wire (the purists in the audience CRINGE!) - indicating that the PCB mounted RCA females cannot be connecting very well at all.

Now, the whole pre-amp isn' such a hotshot deal right now (Yamaha C-85) so I may just take a dremel and go to work on the RCA's - replace them with nice Cardas or WBT units, which I'll wire to the PCB myself. Maybe.

As for not bass heavy overall - dunno what my old IC's were doing, but adding the silver connects, I had a significant increase in bass.

I'll play with some transformer wire ICs soon (Tape deck, other devices) and will compare those with the silvers, possibly at different gauges. I'll also be getting some Eichman Bullet RCA plugs - getting good reviews for the relatively low $$$

thanks

Peter

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