davetheoilguy
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| Ham Radio Interference from next door neighboor I know this is an ancient post, but as a former Electronic Countermeasures Officer, there is a top secret device that can solve your issue. i call it a straight pin. Get a straight pin and push thru the coax leading to the antenna of the offendi... | |
| Moving into an apartment with wood joist floors - worried about neighbors hearing @hudsonhawk I faced your situation before. There are extremely dense rubber mats (about an inch thick) called "stall mats", each about 3' x 4' that are used in horse trailers -- cost a total of $34 at Tractor Supply (yes, I get that's not going... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations @jaymark For whatever reason, my post was just blocked. But Kal Rubinson (who is a mensch) used a pair of Bel Canto monoblocks for his review of your speakers and was quite pleased. So, please google that, since I can't sent you a link. They ... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations @jaymark I read your post quickly and without my glasses, but what speakers are you driving/want to drive? I think that makes a biggest difference in choice. FWIW, I went with Classe Delta Monos (slightly higher that budget if you bought open ... | |
| Absorbing traffic noise with Helmholtz resonators (video) @hilde45 Fascinating stuff! Thank you for posting. I am involved with a number of horizontal drilling locations that either are inside cities or the cities are encroaching on us. When you frac a well (and just drill a well) there are huge dies... | |
| Which turntable? Pro-Ject or VPI? VPI. My uncle Moshe told me when choosing between the best house in the cheap neighborhood and the cheapest house in the best neighborhood, pick the house in the best neighborhood, the cheapest house in the best neighborhood is always the bett... | |
| Neat "Tweaks" to improve the SQ of your streamed music!!! @skads_187 It’s a surge protector. So it needs to be between the LAN and the streamer that might get damaged by a surge. | |
| Neat "Tweaks" to improve the SQ of your streamed music!!! The iFi LAN silencer is merely an Ethernet cable surge protector. My wife is a cardiologist and uses similar equipment all the time. They cost about $16 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Gigabit-Protector-Jumper-Supports/dp/B09LFC5HV... | |
| How does bi-wiring work? @curiousjim you are correct in the positive poles. Neutral (“ground”) is common. | |
| Yes, cables do make a difference -- regardless of price... @chocaholic I think we are talking the same point, or close. I'm certainly not going to spend thousands on a main. But $40 (probably was $20, but Washington DC has been printing money for some time now) on a shielded power code is good insuran... | |
| Yes, cables do make a difference -- regardless of price... @chocaholic Re: mains connection Poorly designed components (or components that didn’t look at this issue) can have leads that act as TRANSMITTING antennas of noise. Given the rats nests of interconnects and power leads in the back, I wouldn... | |
| Value of a preamp? @ddgtt I agree. A good preamp is the conductor of the symphony. | |
| One DAC to Rule it All From my medium technical understanding, the main concern with digital replay is jitter, which is largely a function of timing, followed distantly by sample rates. A large culprit in jitter is a mismatch or misfit in the clock or something effecti... | |
| How does bi-wiring work? The main advantage I have found of bi-wiring is the maid occasionally deep cleans the house and somehow manages to unplug very secure connections. She pulled one of the negative cables to my B&W 800 out and I didn’t notice for a week. Ran fi... | |
| Started with $1k speakers … what now? Have you run REW software on your room? It’s free (although you need to buy a microphone off Amazon for cheap). It will tell you a lot about your room and where you can spend money the most effectively. hardest part is looking at the curve and ... |