[Vintage-Audio] Re Gold Plated Audio Cables

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hello Peter,

I had already tried what you mentioned and it did not cause the static to 
occur.

The Master recording on DAT does not have any static or any kind of audio 
distortion on it. Hence, if the source is the DAT deck, it is not coming 
from a defective recording.

I have used a high end, supposedly 'top quality' optical cleaner on the CDRW 
deck to be sure that the Laser track is free from whatever. I also used a 
special DAT cleaning cassette to clean the high speed DAT heads.

If I monitor the source, the DAT, as the CDRW deck records the signal from 
it, I never hear the static. Normally this static will be right at the start 
of a recording and last X seconds. However, it has happened three quarters 
of the way through a forty minute recording too.

I am wondering if it may be generated by friction between the DAT heads and 
the DAT tape as it is being played?

I have also heard reports that some brands of blank CDR discs have had 
problems with sporadic static. I normally use Sony and Maxell "music" CDS, 
as I do not record music with computer software. Anyone else heard these 
periodic reports of static issues with blank CDR discs?


Thanks.

Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Gold Plated Audio Cables


> If you play something between these two units and move the cables around
> and/or tap the connectors with a stick and hear static or distortion
> static (I'm not really sure what distortion static is), then the problem
> is most likely in the cable or connectors. If this activity doesn't bring
> upon the static, most likely it's coming from one of the units.
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:58:10 -0500 "Duane Fischer, W8DBF"
> <dfischer at usol.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Have any of you used the supposedly better quality gold plated audio
>> cables?
>> The pairs I have are six feet long with male RCA plugs on each end.
>> Very
>> heavy shielded cable, I am not sure of the gauge.
>>
>> One thing I noticed when I first installed them was that they fit
>> very
>> tight! Removing them was not something one was supposed to do
>> often!
>>
>> Since gold is not subject to corrosion I have left my four pairs of
>> audio
>> cables connected for the past eight years.
>>
>> I am now getting some periodic static distortion between my Sony ZA5
>> ES DAT
>> deck and the Sony CDRW deck. I have the gold plated cables on both
>> the
>> input/outputs of the DAT deck running to the amplifier and from the
>>
>> amplifier to the input/output of the Sony CDRW deck. I have checked
>> all
>> cables to be sure they are not loose. I even partly unplugged each
>> one and
>> then re inserted it in case of a poor connection.
>>
>> Nothing I have done thus far has eliminated the sometimes there -
>> sometimes
>> not static. Any suggestions or experiences with such cables to
>> share?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
>> dfischer at usol.com
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>> http://www.w9wze.net
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