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| Do good power cords have to be stiff? Any power cable that is 12 gauge is sufficient. Stiffness does not matter. The metal in the Romex that supplies your outlet is either 12 or 14 gauge solid copper in the USA. A cable made of braided copper wire with a gauge that is equal to or thi... | |
| Dedicated 20 amp circuit - Electrician laughed! Also, high end gear can have huge current draw, especially with Class A gear. Sharing circuits can cause tripped breakers or blown fuses. If your lights dim and flicker during loud passages, you need a dedicated circuit. | |
| Dedicated 20 amp circuit - Electrician laughed! He’s Not really correct. I’ve had huge improvements going to a dedicated circuit when OTHER ITEMS on that same circuit are noisy. Fluorescent lights, hair dryers, microwaves and vacuum cleaners are quite noisy and will cause visual (TV-projector... | |
| I need advice for power cords Also...your best bet is to spend your money on a dedicated circuit for your audio gear - that will get noisy things like fluoresecent lights and vacuum cleaners and hairdryers off your "audio only" circuits. Also consider a power conditioner that ... | |
| I need advice for power cords Buy some Marinco or Wattgate IEC plugs. Buy some TechFlex sleeving and 3M heatshrink. Go to Home Depot, Lowes or the Big Box store or your choice and buy some 12/3 SJOOW wire:https://www.homedepot.com/p/Southwire-250-ft-12-3-300-Volt-CU-Black-Flex... | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? These look cool but are pure snake oil. | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. I’ve got ~2000 records and also have a nice Roon server with TIDAL and Qobuz and a bunch of DACs...so I hope my advice is helpful here. I went to Axpona and listened to $300,000 systems two years ago that sounded like crap and heard some $5,000 sy... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. I went to see Tool this week. In the row in front of me was a guy who wanted to head-bang...he had his hair long on top with the sides shaved. Tool started playing...but the complex time signature was too much for this gentleman to get his rhythm.... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Baritone Explosion! The Rein De Graaff Trio with Ronnie Cuber and Nick Brignola.If you love Bari Sax and hard bop jazz, this album is awesome! | |
| Best used DAC under $750. I second the Schiit Gungnir Multibit. If you want MQA, find a used Mytek Liberty. | |
| Forever speakers around $5000 GoldenEar Triton One variants or used Triton Reference.Tweeters are very revealing and airy like Maggies, bass is amazing...lots of tech...good pricing...good looking...meets your requirements. | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance Where’s the Atlanta guy with the listening challenge? I’m game. I’ve got an all-mechanical A:B switchbox I built with identical headphone amps that can A:B a pair of Oppos with whatever cords you want to battle. Level match with 1KHz test tone and... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance @atdavid...Yessir. It’s ~ 3.18 volts @ 50 feet for 120VAC with a 20A load.If you want to do your own calculations you can go here: https://www.calculator.net/voltage-drop-calculator.html?material=copper&wiresize=5.211&voltage=120&phas... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance Imagine if I made two cords to prove my point that have the following construction:3 feet of 12AWG Romex that plugs into your wall outlet with a Marinco or Wattgate plug...or even wired directly to your mains box.The other end of that Romex would... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance @atdavid,My point is simple:You have "mains feed" into your breaker or fuse box at your listening location.From there, you have a breaker or fuse that protects the circuit. That breaker or circuit is sized according to the amperage of the circuit... |