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RE: Nord One Up NC500 DM impressions

Posted by Satie (A) on September 18, 2017 at 01:43:41

In Reply to: RE: Nord One Up NC500 DM impressions posted by watts on September 17, 2017 at 09:08:43:

The amp's op amp options are a good place to roll to get your balance of audio properties right. I am not up to date on the current options in op amps - discrete and integrated. Burson and Dexa lines were what was at the top op amp options. I don't know the current crop.

The wiring seems like solid choices, I would have liked to use OCC copper too, but it is too costly for me to experiment with for my DIY cabling. I find it baffling that Audio Sensibility build with expensive OCC stranded copper in what appears to be unsealed terminations, where stranded copper has a limited lifespan due to oxidation. I would have expected them to either seal the terminations or used individual solid core conductors without stranded bundles.

Since you are biamping I think you can use different wiring for bass and top end amps The bass wiring should be a bundle of solid core wires to get you down to the 9-10 gauge area. There is little point to having OCC wiring for the bass cables. That is not where their benefits are, that would be in the top end. And in biamp you don't need the top end to be as heavy, a composite of 14 gauge is fine for the speaker wire. OCC is a great choice. .

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