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So tempted to buy it for my office rig...

Furutech Speaker Cables

Got some work done on a project last night, some custom jumpers for a friend's speakers. Each is 4 strands of hand-braided Neotech UPOCC 22ga copper terminated with Furutech banana plugs. The accompanying speaker cables are done, but I won't post pictures of those until the owner sees them.

Thanks, Leeloo has been my girl for almost 8 years now and over 20,000 miles. I think she still cleans up pretty well and she's never let me down.

Yeah, that's cutting things seriously close on the material left around the XLR's. So much so I wonder if FPE will agree to fabricate it.

First thing this morning it was this: Then there was a bit of this:

It may depend on the Melos but I was looking at buying one and got a chance to audition it at a meet before purchase. Needless to say I did not end up buying it. It had no of the famed synergy with Grados that I hear preached about incessantly on HF and seemed like a bad deal even for $300.

Just taking time off from work, but doing some fun stuff too. Hopefully there will be a trip to the beach in the next couple of days. Today I started off with a short trip on the m'cycle to meet an old college buddy for breakfast on campus (he still works there). I also took a quick detour on the way home to stop by one of my favorite places to go while I was at UNH. There is a Marine Lab located on Great Bay that is open to the public. I swung by for a quick photo, I'll upload it later and post it somewhere.

Breakfast. I like being on vacation.

It wasn't meant to be, the auction went up over $100 in the last minute. And did I mention that the one that I wanted to buy on Saturday sold for less than half of what the one tonight did?

Yeah, I have a sniping account too, I just didn't have time to set it up for the auction. We'll find out if my luck is any better in 22 minutes.

Sounds like it'll be a great time, looking forward to the pics and impressions. I have a soft spot for Craig's work, even if I don't own any.

Ugh, I hope to be posting in this thread later tonight if the Ebay gods are on my side. I missed a very good example of what I'm looking for 2 days ago due to what I like to call Lilyitis, basically I got busy with the little one and completely forgot. :| She's asleep right now so there's hope I'll be able to stay on top of this one but it already looks like I'll be paying more for less. Such is life.

True, but maybe he was thinking of going the Airport route?

I'll build you a Duet cable in exchange for the 840C.

No, I haven't contacted them because I keep selling every cable that I build. But I'm finally ahead, have parts and as soon as I can build another I'll throw an email at them.

It's not pathetic unless you aren't willing to pay a price (monetary or size-wise) for it. So you can get what you want, you just need to buy the Balanced Home instead of the Desktop amp.

Wait, so on the Audioengine speakers the amp is only in one of the speakers? That would seem to imply that the enclosures are substantially different...

If you don't mind cables coming out the front (not a big deal in my book) it has a variable line out.

Ian found Tangentsoft, told me about it and the rest is history.

My 2

You should be getting all sorts of fun packages this week.

What I bought should be the 3rd Edition, maybe it contains the project you're talking about?

All power conditioners that I've seen incorporate a surge protector and filter as well so you wouldn't need both. No experience with the Duet, sorry.

At a minimum buy one of these: Item # PW8R15AUD, 15 Amp, 8 Isolated Receptacle Point of Use Unit for Audio Use on Brick Wall That'll help with the surge portion of the equation. If you want to deal with the dips and surges you'll need something a bit more than just a surge/filter product. For that you'll want something more like a power conditioner. There is a fair amount of debate about what the various options do and don't do and while I hesitate to do anything other than give a direct recommendation in this case I can't. I use a MonsterPower product, which probably isn't the best but was reasonably priced and I've never felt like it was doing anything bad.