[kaiwei]

Hiya,

I asked this questions buried deep within the older silver lace thread & getting no response I decided to ask here again since 'm about to spring for it.

Does anyone has any idea how these silver laces will fare in a computer environment? ie soundcard>DIO>silver laces>hopefully headmaster>Etys 4S???

Or should I go for the shield route? I'm basically gonna run these out of a soundcard's analog out, will the EMI/RF/)(*&#@ affect the sound? Will it cause a background hiss? HELP!!!

 

[Hirsch]

I have a set of Silver Lace interconnects on the input side of my computer system, between my phono preamp and ART DI/O, and they work just fine.

 

[dhwilkin]

I probably wouldn't do it if you leave the computer case off.

 

[kaiwei]

So Hirsch, have you tried running them out from your soundcard analog out? Any hum/static? thanks a million for helping.

kaiwei
merry christmas

 

[Tim D]

Analog outs of many soundcards HAVE hiss or hum sometimes regardless of the best interconnects. Do you have hum/hiss now?

If you had the D/IO you would be able to move the unit farther away from the computer anyhow.

Not that better or worse interconnects wouldn't help in this situation...it is just that if you are talking about an internal soundcard...well even the most shielded cables don't change the fact that your soundcard is still inside the computer box bombarded with EMI/RFI and a less than ideal power supply.

 

[Hirsch]

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Originally posted by kaiwei So Hirsch, have you tried running them out from your soundcard analog out? Any hum/static? thanks a million for helping. kaiwei merry christmas

Actually, I have computer speakers in the analog output, and haven't tried an upscale interconnect there. I run digital out back to the DI/O and from there to Creek OBH-11se (am trying a Monarchy DIP between computer and DI/O). I use MIT MI-330 on the output leg, and haven't tried the Silver Lace there (I'm primarily concerned with getting the best possible signal from turntable to computer, and then burning to CD).

No noise issues with Silver Lace I can think of, but they're not directly connected to the computer.

 

[kaiwei]

Well I guess what I need is to get hold of a pair & try it out. Will post here the results. Thanks for everything.

 

[Hirsch]

Well, I just had my first incidence of noise directly traceable to the Silver Lace in the computer system, while testing different phono sections with it. Replacing the Silver Lace with MIT cabling solved the problem, so I'd have to say shielded is better for computer use at this admittedly late point.

I'm not absolutely certain why noise suddenly appeared, but I suspect it's the weather...it's really dry around here right now. Petting a cat can create a static discharge big enough to cause an ART DI/O five feet away to lose sync