Me and the 1210 are gunna have us some me time....

OK, this weekend i intend to install the next bag of upgrades to the 1210. These include full setup using the Adjust+ Pro version, correcting the Timestep HSE termination on the PCB. Making a sorbothane "bath" for the PCB to sit on to limit vibration getting to the PCB and finally (if time permits), making some pure silver powerleads and balanced speaker cables to replace the Isotek Elite powerleads and the Atlas balanced pure copper speaker leads!! :eyebrows::eyebrows::eyebrows: Full report follows soon...

Pure silver power leads, interesting.

David,

Have you ever had any experience with silver leads?? Would be interesting to know if you've had any improvements with the various leads that you sell. Also I have a Isotek GII NOVA filtering out all the crap in my system, so the idea is to make some new leads to replace the Isotek Elites, I was thinking about producing something like this http://www.madengland.com/product.po...?key=27&page=3. It cant be that hard :lol:

Sounds like fun, Andrew - enjoy and report back! :cool:

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Sounds like fun, Andrew - enjoy and report back! :cool:

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Originally Posted by REXTON

David,

Have you ever had any experience with silver leads?? Would be interesting to know if you've had any improvements with the various leads that you sell. Also I have a Isotek GII NOVA filtering out all the crap in my system, so the idea is to make some new leads to replace the Isotek Elites, I was thinking about producing something like this http://www.madengland.com/product.po...?key=27&page=3. It cant be that hard :lol:

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I thought my website was hard to navigate, that is the strangest website ever (almost).

They do look home made and as you say its not that hard to get some solid silver cable and put a decent IEC and mains plug on each end, in fact keep your money for a while longer as I have 1 pure silver mains lead left so you may as well try it for a bit as its sat here doing nothing, then you can tell if pure silver wire is the way to go without spending un-necessary wonga if it does not sound right in your system?

The ones I make use fairly thick cable so they should sound good, if you want to try one no problem and if it is good I can tell you where to buy the wire from.

Here it is just so you know I have it although you cannot see the silver wires!

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/t...DSCF3688-1.jpg

Many thanks for your kind offer!! Now how do I get hold of it so i can place it in my system?? I had quite a specific design setup for the power lead. The powerlead will go in the back of the Timestep power supply to start with then i intend to shuffle it around the various other components to see if it helps. I may be upgrading the power supply to a Paul Hynes but I havent decided yet. I was think about using 28 AWG cotton-insulated silver wire of .9999 purity this has a lower dialetic than teflon, tri-braided and then aluminium shielded for RFI & EMI and then maybe adding a polypropylene jacket for vibration control. I was also thinking maybe a Futuretech plug (Rhodium or silver plated), I think this lot should be upto Reference level?? Then maybe you could give me some advice regarding fuses??

You won't need to mess about as the one I will send you has been optimizes for RFI etc, etc. I will advise what exactly is in it later as I have a few orders to go and do now. The good thing is as you say you can try it in a few different areas to see what happens, it has a good plug on already and I will put a super duper fuse in it for you as well, pm your address and I will post it off asap.

BTW despite what anyone else says, rhodium is not as good a conductor of electricity as other metals, silver is the best proven by simple laws of physics, then copper then gold. So silver plated copper would be about the best commercially available for hi-fi use. I happen to have what I think is the world's only Pure Silver IEC connector as well. Unless someone knows otherwise.

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/t...DEN/metals.jpg

Silver oxidizes like a muthaf***er though, gold doesn't at all which is why it's better for lazy gits that don't want to strip their plugs evey 6 months to remove the oxidization :eyebrows:

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Silver oxidizes like a muthaf***er though, gold doesn't at all which is why it's better for lazy gits that don't want to strip their plugs evey 6 months to remove the oxidization :eyebrows:

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Mark,
Oxidized silver is still a good conductor, no need to strip them down at all.