carlsbad
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| Ideal power cord lengths? If you're tuning your sound with power cords expect your results to vary with blood alcohol. Make sure your power cord is beefy enough not to limit your amp. To that end, the shorter the better. I'm guessing the 2M length recommendation has it'... | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? My conclusion after buying streamers and testing them is that the USBridge Signature with Shanti PS is awesome in it's price range. Innuous Zenith MKII ended up in my system. Those of you eschewing this technology will eventually wish you'd d... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @ricevs Good that you can hear the failings of the interters you are testing. About your comment on PS audio, I don't understand what you are saying or else you don't. Inverting is changing DC to AC. The PS audio rectifies the DC from teh wall ... | |
| Two amps into one pair of speakers Are you sure he isn't biamping? | |
| Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West? I decided to just buy streamers and test them. It was that easy. | |
| Need help. I need recomendations for amp, or amp/preamp Kinki Studios is an undiscovered gem. I have one in my second system. I run tubes in my primary. | |
| My Major System Upgrades in 2022 and Impact of Each Damn. Your system must have sucked. Just kidding. I've made a lot of changes that I consider significantly impactful. I think they were really only minorly impactful but because we know our system so well we hear them. | |
| Positioning B&W 802’s with spikes in hardwood? Not the best sound. Consider Townshend outriggers (aka seismic podiums). Instead of anchoring your speaker to the floor and making it try to excite vibrations in the wood, isolate it on springs and let it vibrate as it was designed. As a physic... | |
| What is the best non-conditioning surge protector Exactly what I would expect. Plug it into the wall and unplug it when storms in the area. | |
| To truly enjoy this hobby, I need to learn electronics. Any book recs? Start with understanding electricity and physics. Most adults who don't understand anything about technical stuff made a conscious decision to eschew math and science at a young age. It may be your brain is more suited to non-science areas as m... | |
| Dedicated AC Circuits: It's not the noise, it's the upstream problems @erik_squires Yep, Federal Pacific, aka FPE. Many of my heighbors still have them. One did thermography recently and has some pretty warm spots. It is much harder to change your breaker box now than when I did it. Our gas meters are right belo... | |
| Dedicated AC Circuits: It's not the noise, it's the upstream problems @erik_squires Exactly as you guessed. My home was built in 1986, had 100 amp service, and was limited on breaker positions. I have upgraded my service to 200amp service. My box and breakers were a brand whose name I can't remember that went ou... | |
| Severe short term audio distortion when watching Netflix I'm guessing the PC. go to a roku streamer for $40 and see if the problem goes away. Or I can loan you one I'm not using. I'm not saying permanently switch. You figure out what your configuration should be. But for troubleshooting, get the c... | |
| Dedicated AC Circuits: It's not the noise, it's the upstream problems Exactly. I'll add that a dedicated circuit ensures that a load of laundry isn't running on the same circuit causing a large power draw. Seems like an extreme example but indeed the outlet behind my system (before I installed a dedicated circui... | |
| Indentical measurments = Identical performance? No need to shop for components any more. Just let ASR measure them and you'll know which $100 DAC to buy. |