erik_squires
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| Good outlet for amplifiers I saw the ground on top in an industrial facility I was working at in North Carlolina for a couple of weeks. I asked around and nobody knew why. Otherwise, I see it on the bottom. @carlsbad2 - From my reading long ago the issue may have to d... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room My one bit of advice btw is treat the ceiling. A panel or two up there, white perhaps, will be amazing. Use the AM Acoustics room mode simulator to see what problems you have, where they will be and what frequency. It may help with placement and... | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing Thx for your blog post about the EverStar MI-300 Ethernet Galvanic Isolator. If we do it for electricity makes sense to do it for ethernet too. You are welcome, @wsrrsw - The year I moved in we had lightning strike near the Internet providers l... | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers Are you saying that the issue is the plug rather than the receptacle? I’ve got good power cords (e.g. Shunyata Alpha) and they are not tightly gripped. Thanks. @peter_s - Not exactly, but maybe it’s 60% plug, 40% outlet? I guess it depends h... | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers I’ve found that at least half of the issues with plug grip is the plug. A high quality hospital grade plug can really improve this. I’ve had very good luck with Leviton, and additionally, the 90 degree versions can really help you reclaim some flo... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room Absolutely you'd love Fritz. Does free trials. Get something wiht a split paper woofer and ring radiator. DOn't know the model names. | |
| Lost in transmission how signal loss robs your sound. Well that's kind of sloppy writing, but sure why not? | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing * Correction: For high rise time currents a short, straight wire is ideal, but if you can’t have that then avoiding sharp bends altogether is your next best alternative. That’s what I meant to say. In some photographs you can actually see evidenc... | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing BTW, all the reading I've read about surge protection agrees with @jea48 . Perhaps the most in depth explanations happen from the blogs at ZeroSurge or Brickwall. As makers of series mode protectors (like Furman with SMP) they point out, correc... | |
| Digital isolation between Ethernet hub and streamer @mitch2 If you are already running optical there's very little you can do to improve upon that. | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" "Every Valley": The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's "Messiah" by Charles King. Oh, the completion of big projects in the era before computers is always a great read, thank you @sargonicuse My previuos faves includ... | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing Well done Erik, @oldelectricalinspector Thank you! installing a gfci under the counter technically violates the readily accessible rule. In this particular under-sink installation it certainly would have!! Forget testing though, in the ev... | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? I think perhaps the answer is the same as why do tube preamps make everything better? I am not saying everyone feels that way, but it's certainly true for many. Regardless of the source, analog, tape, digital, a tube preamp could be the sugar in... | |
| Digital isolation between Ethernet hub and streamer Don't most good servers/streamers also provide some form of isolation? @mitch2 - Galvanic isolation is required for Ethernet signals, but due to how capacitors may be used across the coils isolation could be improved on a bit. Personally I'm ... | |
| The last 20 years of Home Power Have Been Amazing This is an interesting discussion, the first appliance requirement for gfci was for dishwashers . The substantiation for the dishwasher requirement was manufactures could not meet the safety requirements for leakage current. @oldelectricalinspe... |