After digging in to variations of a new amp and looking at interconnects used by different makers, I'm left wondering about the compounding effects of both consistent connectors + wiring between devices to speakers, and mixed.
Considering in my stack and ignoring the XLR route for now, I'll have:
- dac out (rca connectors and sockets either side, wires)
- passive amp (rca connectors and sockets either side, wires)
- power amp
- speakers (connectors and sockets either side, wires)
That's 30 moving parts here over two channels, each one can be silver, gold, pure copper, rhodium, then there can be mixing and matching between.
So, is it better to keep everything consistent if deviating one, extreme example rhodium rca sockets on power amp -> swap everything else? / not swapping everything else = nullified benefits?
Do the effects of each compound, e.g. silver plated wires and connectors/sockets throughout and entire system is much brighter than just having at one level?
I'd brushed the subject off as noise, but after counting up a simple setup having 30 variable parts here in the flow of analogue signal, I figured it was worth asking for pointers or canonical answers.
Considering in my stack and ignoring the XLR route for now, I'll have:
- dac out (rca connectors and sockets either side, wires)
- passive amp (rca connectors and sockets either side, wires)
- power amp
- speakers (connectors and sockets either side, wires)
That's 30 moving parts here over two channels, each one can be silver, gold, pure copper, rhodium, then there can be mixing and matching between.
So, is it better to keep everything consistent if deviating one, extreme example rhodium rca sockets on power amp -> swap everything else? / not swapping everything else = nullified benefits?
Do the effects of each compound, e.g. silver plated wires and connectors/sockets throughout and entire system is much brighter than just having at one level?
I'd brushed the subject off as noise, but after counting up a simple setup having 30 variable parts here in the flow of analogue signal, I figured it was worth asking for pointers or canonical answers.