dog_or_man
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| Review: Rogue Audio Cronus Tube amp Are you still happy with your Cronus? I'm looking at one right now in the "magnum" package, for use driving a pair of Salk Songtowers (4ohm, 91db). Slightly underpowered given Mr. Salk's recommended 125wpc rating, but have driven them with low pow... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Just a quick bump to this thread -- with some new info to report:1) My electrician-friend thinks grounding issues will be easier to check than dc-offset, which suggests he doesn't have the equipment to check the latter at his disposal.2) The break... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Okay, will try that experiment. Sounds like a good one. | |
| back to ask again long sorry The dedicated line has a safety ground. | |
| back to ask again long sorry The electrician didn't do anything comprehensive before. All he did was install the dedicated line. The main electrical system of the house has no safety ground whatsoever ("the third pin on these outlets is just for show, Dave") and nobody has ev... | |
| back to ask again long sorry I've just finished uploading eight images to a thumbnail gallery on a hosting site called imageshack, and will post the link to the thumbnail gallery here. The thumbnails are arranged in two rows of four.Top row (L to R) :1) My rig, in its latent ... | |
| back to ask again long sorry I agree: the trouble seems partly due to contagious failure whose root-cause has never been identified. I always write too much on these things and my OP was *way* out of hand, but at this moment the most relevant points seem to be:1) Similar prob... | |
| back to ask again long sorry These are great action-items to checklist my way down. I'll try to get my electrician friend to come over and look into the earth ground and the DC-offset first, and then maybe take things from there in the direction of an isolation transformer. .... | |
| back to ask again long sorry "Above moderate." | |
| back to ask again long sorry Al's last point is a good one and begs more backstory: I've been eating components *and* speakers during all of this, at a rate that doesn't otherwise make sense. The whole trouble started most of three years ago with some Parasound gear that woul... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Just had a long conversation with a forum member from A-Asylum and he suggests (1) verifying that the house wiring has a good ground, (2) checking to be sure that the un-dedicated line has a safety ground and, if not, tying it to the safety ground... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Yes -- I've even tried using the bluray player as my front-end for listening to redbook CD's, and the same things happen. One commenter in another forum suggested "excessive DC offset on your local grid," and another suggested "static buildup in y... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Worth a try, though a hum problem might also be related. The amp makes an audible hum, both in the speakers and physically -- through the front apron -- but not so much so as to be obviously indicative of a performance problem.Also, I'm not sure b... | |
| back to ask again long sorry I should tell everybody one more thing.Sorry this is coming out in dribs and drabs, but I have a hunch that this might be an important detail: I started shoveling money at my stereo in the first place because an old configuration of gear and speak... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Sns: Do you mean to suggest that I should connect the preamp, poweramp, and cdp to the same line conditioner and thence to a single outlet on the dedicated line?Almarg: How do I "use a multimeter to check if one of the AC runs is miswired"? And ho... |