georgehifi
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| Anyone heard Cary 303/300 after 400 hours burn-in? I owned both the 303/200 and the 303/300, and preferred the sound of the non tube 200, most likely because it used a true PCM1072 Mulitbit dac converter, instead of the 300's hybrid PCM1792 Delta Sigma/4 bit converter. Also the 200 had a PMD-200 h... | |
| To Float or not to Float... "Be sure your system installation is finished before you try moving the Ground Lift switch from its “Normal” to its “Lift” position."This statement proves my point, that then the amp circuit will get it’s system ground reference from the next stag... | |
| To Float or not to Float... Whatever, you have your view, that has no other.Cheers George | |
| To Float or not to Float... I’ve tried.No use discussing it any longer, as your set in your ways. Cheers George | |
| To Float or not to Float... Also look at the fact that you can buy mains earth cheater adaptor plugs, which give you the option to float the earth of that piece of equipment they are attached to from most hi-end audio stores, for doing exactly what I said before, to have one... | |
| To Float or not to Float... No it's you that doesn't understand, as interconnect shields are kept at earth potential, some thorough a very low ohm resistor, if they weren't they'd be useless as a shield for rf.Cheers George | |
| To Float or not to Float... You clearly don’t know or understand.It still has to get a total system reference earth via the interconnect shield, if you disconnected that shield at either end (and be left with a single wire connection) you get a massive noise.Cheers George | |
| To Float or not to Float... First the IC cable is not approved to be used as an equipment grounding conductor by any recognized third party testing laboratory. NONE. This is exactly how more than half the source equipment that use earth figure eight two pin mains cable ... | |
| To Float or not to Float... What if all the AC powered audio equipment uses two pin mains plugs? Then this is lethal, there must be always a ground. Look at most CD players, tuners, phono stages ect, they mostly have a figure 8 mains plug on the back yes just two pin, and... | |
| To Float or not to Float... This is extremely dangerous - interconnects are not intended to carry safety grounds. No it’s not as many sources have two pin mains plugs and rely on the ground from the next stage via the interconnect same goes for some preamps. If you were to ... | |
| CD player plays some CDs, not others. CD player plays some CDs, not others. Are these burnt/copied cd's or retail cd's? Because some lasers have problems with burnt cd's, (doesn't mean they're bad lasers) and some will play some but not others, depending which brand of blank it is ... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? what can you possibly "expect" from a $25 fuse in a $60K system that already sounds great. That's just it, "expectation bias" will ring forth after spending $$$ on a 10c fuse.Cheers George | |
| Has anyone heard the Nuforce P-20 Preamp? Yeah a reviewer friend of mine has one, when they gave him one (cheap) for the "good" review he gave on their Class-D 9se monos, we both said it’s ok. I followed up with must be because it’s discrete linear class-A and it has a linear power supply... | |
| To Float or not to Float... I've never had any hum or buzz problems, but I follow this: Ideally the system should only have one ground point via the mains plug, be it amp, preamp or source. This way there is no "earth loop" via the grounds and your house earthing. As all ear... | |
| Modifying a Pioneer Elite PD-65...... Modifying a Pioneer Elite PD-65 From memory I had both the 65 and the 75 don't waste time on the dac sections they were ordinary at best (from memory Pioneer or Sony early Delta Sigma) The inverted transport of the 75 was ok but the 65 was a ch... |