LOAN TQ SPEAKER CABLE
I know it's a bit of a long shot, but does anyone have any TQ speaker cable that I could borrow? I need a minimum of 1m either side.
As I've been in hospital for four months I have not used my Hifi in that time, I come back to it and the mid and top end seems quite shouty and I have lost the deeeep bass I was used to. I know my brother used my Hifi a couple of times while I wasn't around but that's it. Nothing has changed........except the speaker cable. Chris, the chap who bought my TQ Iridium amp, wanted to try TQ speaker cable and I stupidly sold him mine. I'm thinking the problems I'm facing surely can't be due to a speaker cable change, but that's all that is different. I'm currently using some bloody thick OFC cable, it might be called Shark Wire, not sure.
So if someone has a couple of lengths of the TQ stuff that I could try again, I will know if the changes I hear are down to the cable change or not. Maybe I'm just loosing it. I've even tried pushing my speakers back to loose the top end and gain more bass but to no avail.
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I haven't got any spare James.
But, if you're really desperate I can very short term loan you my TQ UB via post so you can check out the difference. I have some Cable Talk 3 from 1993 that I have in my second system that I could "use" while my UBs visit you.
I do want to experience my full setup with the dynamic PSU in first though, so it'd probably be this time next week.
Keep me posted.
Above all, good to read you're back home. :-)
(And I'm assuming that the monitor on the right of shot you have already modified to act as an oscilloscope).
On a very serious note: Rest-up, man!
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I can't get pictures up because I'm only working off my iPad so I've sent some snapshots to Ben to stick up
Here you go: James' new cables...
Here are the real and very impressive images... =D>
I felt really comforted to read this.
Thanks James. Good work. And as ever, genuinely heart-warming interventions from Mr. W.
Thanks for explaining that.
Righto.
I reckon that others would find this of interest. Moreover, I know you like sharing and spreading the word. But also, from the POV of my own understanding I suspect that the maths would be someway beyond anything I would be able to understand. You can try me if you like.
:-B
Basically each speaker channel consists of four lengths of seven mm PVC tubing, The PVC tubes are glued together using a hot glue gun, I managed to squeeze seven wires down each of the two outer tubes. Each piece of wire has seven conductors inside its Teflon dielectric. Therefore each speaker cable has 49 conductors to one terminal, say the red one, and 49 conductors to the black. There is no special number that's just the maximum I could squeeze down the seven mm PVC tube I purchased. So if the two outer lengths of tubing are occupied with conductors the middle two is what creates the even spacing all the way along the length of speaker cable, again that gap of 21 mm is nothing super special it's just me utilising all the PVC tubing that I had. This makes quite a chunky speaker cable, I don't think I would want anything wider.
Then I bought some fancy silver banana plugs from hi-fi collective I already had the heat shrink and I bought the braiding from eBay. I put two layers of braiding over the PVC tubing as one layer I could still see daylight through it and I thought that looked a bit DIY with two layers it looks a lot more professional.
Hope that makes sense.
Sounds like some of the design decisions were to some degree conditioned by the materials at hand. Beyond this, were the general design ideas yours, or were they arrived at through discussions with Head Honcho Wonfor?
And, I suppose if you are to recruit your daughter to the production line, then she's going to have to learn to count in 7s.
(And please remember, these photos were taken in an NHS hopsital.)
They look super duper James.
Enjoy
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