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RE: Is the capacitance of litz wire higher on a single strand?

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In Reply to: RE: Is the capacitance of litz wire higher on a single strand? posted by Norm on January 05, 2013 at 17:25:54

Norm,

Unclestu referred to Budp's earlier posts, and the "surpluss electron supply" notion. I have no idea why this works, but if I follow that concept, more copper means more electrons...so I thought of adding more runs. I had rather thick magnet wire lying around so that was the quick and dirty way to try the tweak out. That's the only reason for the twisted pair.

Budp did mention Litz and dielectric, and I have CAT5 cable (super cheap), so building a Litz-type cable sounds yet like another iteration.

Regarding your comment about sonics improving, then degrading, then back to improved again, one of the many posts I read did mention something like this and the guy was speculating weather-related. He had a very dry few days in Texas, then rain, and he was speculating too-dry an air might be affecting it...just as a cable doing nothing improves sound, might weather affect this tweaks? I'm starting to loose it!!

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RE: System changes over time - geoffkait 11:05:53 01/06/13 (3)
Weather is undoubtedly responible for ups and downs in audio performance as is time of day and day of the week. I'm pretty sure most audiophiles have experienced better audio performance late at night or early in the morning. Sunday morning might be the very best time for critical listening. Unfortunately, there are other reasons why audio systems might exhibit up and down performance, some of which are pretty obvious, like break-in of components, cables, break-in of contact enhancers. Also changes one makes to the system, even subtle changes, over a period of time; some changes we make we forget, and some are not obvious, innocent things like bringing new books and magazines into the house. All these variables make it difficult to get a bead on what is going when evaluating anything.

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- How close to - Mungo Jerry 12:50:17 01/06/13 (2)
  the audio system do the new books and magazines (that are brought into the house) have to be, to have an effect on the sound?
  - RE: How close to - geoffkait 13:49:01 01/06/13 (1)
    Ideally there should be no books, newspapers or magazines anywhere in the house. I suppose you could at least keep them out of the listening room. Unfortunately, the situation is actually much worse, since ALL media is bad for the sound, including video DVDs, LPs and CDs, if you see what I mean....
    - RE: How close to - Mungo Jerry 14:41:36 01/06/13 (0)
      I can dig all the levels you're coming from.
Having been at this hobby for 45 years, I have often been past the "losing it border." - Norm 10:46:46 01/06/13 (0)
In my case, however, the weather remained cold and rainy throughout the day. I just checked on the sound today. It remains rainy and cold here. I think the ease of the music and the sense of the soundstage is somewhat improved over last night.

When I get back from CES, I'm going to experiment with other cables as loops.

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