erik_squires
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| Don't try to fix these electrical prolbems with a conditioner! @wsrrsw - There seem to be like 6 versions of that which are identical except for the brand. None of them are "laboratory grade" or anything but all super convenient. Cheap, easy to use, you can leave them plugged in for days and monitor y... | |
| When using a power conditioner, why is it advised to run amps directly to the wall? You’ll see this advice from a number of fire departments as well. Don’t daisy chain power cords/strips and in some cases like space heaters or wall AC units, don’t use an extension at all. The main reason for that is fire safety. Lots of cheap ... | |
| Don't try to fix these electrical prolbems with a conditioner! Good for you, @whart - Occasionally I still run into stories of homeowners who have a home built in the 1960's with Federal Pacific Stab-Lok breakers. Owning an old home that's gone through several eras of electrical upgrades is a real challenge... | |
| Don't try to fix these electrical prolbems with a conditioner! Hey @atmasphere - I specifically wrote this for those on the opposite end of the financial situation. While yeah, it seems like many well-to-do audiophiles are able to and have spent money with an electrician to create custom AC solutions there ... | |
| Outlet is "Open Ground" - Is There Still a Safe Way to Connect to My Audio Gear? All I know is when the amp was plugged directly to the mains, it's metal front cover conveyed some minor current flow and when plugged into the Panamax, it was resolved. I am not in a position to rewire my entire home either DIY or via a paid pr... | |
| Luxman 509z or Aesthetix Mimas the Luxman 507 with Harbeths are excellent choices. Not heard with the 509, and no experience with Mimas. the tradeoff, as you are aware, is whether to get a separate dac/streamer you can replace later on or not. I'd consider the 507 + separate... | |
| Battery-Powered Audio System Buzzing? To follow on the already correct advice from @cleeds , it's a lot cheaper to provide a square wave output UPS than a sine wave. Unless it specifically says "sine wave output" it probably is not. The square waves produce a lot of higher frequen... | |
| Outlet is "Open Ground" - Is There Still a Safe Way to Connect to My Audio Gear? You should get the grounding issue fixed, but the only "fix" for this I know of is to use a GFCI outlet and label it with the sticky labels that say "No Equipment Ground." However, not ideal and most surge protectors won’t work correctly in this... | |
| OT: Espresso machines Baratza is owned by Breville. They make a ton of models. A good “sweet spot” option is the Sette series. Depends on your expectations and budget of course. More serious espresso nerds move on from Baratza Well, as a follow up, the purchase... | |
| Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus Roon can be very CPU intensive. I run it on a very modest powered device that works well but often bottlenecks on CPU. Will likely move to a faster device with more CPU horsepower at some point. Personally I think the CPU requirements for... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? Very little sounds as good as rock solid clean power. | |
| Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus The OP is probably not very technically savvy, but if he were I'd encourage him to open up a shell to his Nucleus and leave top running. See what takes time when things slow down, and how much RAM is being consumed. Also, be aware that solid s... | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 Should have pointed out, another sign of poor room acoustics is not enough bass. The reflections accentuate the mid-treble significantly. Adding mid-treble absorbers fixes the imbalance and lets the bass bloom. | |
| Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8 Hi OP, The harsh treble, especially when the volume goes up is often a sign of excess solid reflections. I'd suggest you consider your room and placement before starting to swap gear. Describe your room, amps and where in the room you put your... | |
| Power Help - What Conditioner - WHERE? Furman P-2400 - 20A with built in voltage regulation, series mode protection and linear filtering. The one caveat is that for any power conditioner you run into the issue of attaching dirty power supplies to the clean side and re-polluting it, ... |