Cables off the floor, why?

Hi Nigel, yes 100%, but there are some out there that require the cover to go on the cable first.

That’s a bit silly. Who’d buy those?

I use standard bucket ones now for KS-1 but used to use the bigger bucket screw in from the front for my Linn K400. :+1:t2:

I had Linn Knekt Bananas when I had 109s they solder on and cap screw from the back too. :+1:t2:



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The reason I have a mix of small & large solder buckets is because the small bucket is the right size for a single Chord Odyssey (3.31mm/2).
Whereas the other pin that has x2 wires, but its actually a section of wire insulation stripped but the wire is left uncut and then folded back on itself and the doubled up cable then fits nicely into a large solder bucket.

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Didn’t fool you -
so you buy the cable that Linn based on Naim’s compromised NACA4 and then marketed as their cable.
No one’s getting anything past you.

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Thanks for the reminder. Just ordered myself a set of 550s to re-terminate my KS-1 cables. SA8s for the 350 end, Deltron 550s for the Titan end :+1:

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Ummmm yep

He was being polite. What he meant was that you were talking bollocks :blush:

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I know I was talking bollocks,
And I know the history of the cable gate affair,
It’s the reason I got it in the 1st place,
After reading posts on here,
There is always someone that will bite,
I’ve tried A5 and did not like it, too stiff if it could be less than 3.5mtrs I would use it,

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People who want to ensure they can’t accidentally use the speakers out of phase.

With covers screwed on from the front, that could happen.

It’s the difference between good engineering design and bad engineering design.

This plug was supplied with a Creek 4040.

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For the same reason in server rooms there are metal floors. Carpets build electrostatic charge. Every time, when someone is walking near my work desk my screens go black, as mini display port cables that I have on my monitors pick up electrical discharge from the floor.

On a second thought the mechanical vibrations also may have negative effect. Vibrations travels via the cables and reach the connectors, where two metal surfaces contact in a very small contact area and vibrations perhaps cause micro movements at the contact point, that cause unstable electrical connection, which surely would effect the sound quality.

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Perhaps also another possible effect is similar to when capacitors produce an electrical response when stressed physically - the “microphonic effect” and two parallel wires form a capacitor. One can assume similar to impregnating capacitors with oil, a similar treatment of cables would minimize this effect, but I never heart of such cables.

@BBK I worked in open plan offices for 30+ years, all the cabling went along the floor and staff were moving around all the time, never had an issue with screens dropping out due to static or mechanical vibration.

Every demo or audition of hifi that I have attended has had cables along the floor, either power leads from wall sockets or speaker cables between amp and speakers.

My latest demo had speaker cables on the floor as speakers were out in the room, even when we repositioned them closer to the walls the cable stayed on the floor.

I understand that there is a benefit of keeping power and signal cables apart but as yet I am struggling to comprehend the benefits of keeping cables off the floor - which for a lot of people is all but impossible.

Maybe I just don’t understand the science.

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It’s very simple really. The real benefit of lifting cables off the floor is that it’s so much easier to run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet :grin:

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What is this “vacuum cleaner” of which you speak? (Single bloke… )

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I think that depends on what carpet is made of. Wool and certainly seagrass carpets won’t create electrostatic charges.

I agree key focus I believe is to keep speaker cables from running in parallel in very close proximity to other cables such as mains cables for any distance … but for a short distance say less than 50 cms I have noticed no detrimental effect.

But I have, in my listening room, short pile woollen carpet on a woollen underlay on top of a traditional concrete and slate floor which I assume renders these more extreme measures redundant.

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Cousin of ‘The Iron’.

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