fsonicsmith
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| Romex and breaker switches how are you planning to use an isolation transformer within your set up? I was thinking that it would be mounted to a stud along my breaker panel in the basement. If it needs a shelf, one could easily be built alongside, above, or below the b... | |
| Romex and breaker switches Thanks all!It took me a while, but I think I now fully understand the concept of the common ground in 10-3 or 12-3 wiring to be avoided. I will go with two separate runs of 12-2 and as williewonka suggests, have the electrician drill separate hole... | |
| Romex and breaker switches Thanks to both of you for your responses. Yogiboy-the Oyaide R1 includes a specification that it will accept 10 gauge wire. I figured-perhaps wrongly-that using the lowest gauge romex or wire possible is potentially beneficial for current draw/flo... | |
| Isotek EVO3 Sigmas Klobnitrones (I won't bother to ask how you derived that name!);I want to thank you for your post. It helped me decide to try the Syncro in conjunction with the Aquarius. I have some very slight hum which I believe to be from my transformers, thou... | |
| Shunyata or Synergistic for power conditioning? So, just to bring this back on track, I have decided to go down the power conditioning rabbit hole. After talking to some dealers who sell ARC gear (I have a Ref 6 and Ref 150SE), I’ve decided to try an Isotek Aquarius and Isotek Syncro in conjunc... | |
| Soooooooo many possibilities...! I am a Manley fan and love my Steelhead. But I also love my Ref 6 and Ref 150 SE. But yes, the Ref 6 does push the sound out to the sides of the speakers, particularly when not yet broken in. This lessens with time but never goes away entirely and... | |
| Soooooooo many possibilities...! Audio Research Ref 6 has not sold me Just curious; which interconnects did you try with the Ref 6? Did you run balanced or RCA? If you go to the Cable forum and read the recent "Balanced Cables" thread, there is some great information from Ralp... | |
| Naim and Elac Adante, Wow I have no dog in this fight. I am not in the market for loudspeakers or any type of component. Audiotroy, I hate to break this to you, but your constant touting of Legacy and your slow but ramped-up cheerleading of Elac is growing tiresome. You ar... | |
| Balanced cables The Cable Company in Ohio has complete charts of those mathematical values from each high end company for their amps and preamps. If you go into a broadcasting-recording supply house and buy inexpensive cable that matches the value numbers of th... | |
| Balanced cables FWIW, I'm looking at my manual to my Ref 150 SE and it does not include a schematic and instead only has some specs, including that the output polarity is non-inverting with "Balanced input pin 2+ (IEC-268)"Also interesting to me is this verbiage;... | |
| Balanced cables Al, that makes a lot of sense to me, but both Warren Gehl (of ARC) and Kalvin told me that the amp employed a differential amplifier at its input. But they may have been reading off of the same cue sheet, which may not have been accurate. Althou... | |
| Balanced cables So Ralph, based on your engineering knowledge, why would ARC make those design choices? Can you hazard a guess as to what the most likely reasons would be? My experience tells me that there must be trade-off considerations-at this level of audio... | |
| Balanced cables Aw geez, once again folks here set up straw-men solely for the purpose of setting themselves up so they can nobly slay them before the spectating masses and then take a bow for imaginary accolades of heroic wisdom. Or put more simply, for crying o... | |
| Balanced cables So Ralph, based on your engineering knowledge, why would ARC make those design choices? Can you hazard a guess as to what the most likely reasons would be? My experience tells me that there must be trade-off considerations-at this level of audio, ... | |
| Balanced cables I agree that simply recommending the cable that worked for you is senseless. However, it is very unfortunate that this thread has to once again devolve into the debate as to whether wire is wire. For those that believe that all wire is wire, fine.... |