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| Fuses The best fuse is no fuse, we already know this, but most equipment does not allow for the installation of breakers (and breakers also have their issues)This is not a breaker it takes the place of the fuse with a solid brass rod (No fuse then). j... | |
| Questions to Denafrips Terminator Plus owners (the break-in) tortor Denafrips Terminator Plus, I really don’t like the sound. whilst I can hear some more detailsThis Denafrips is a very good dac.More detail also means if you could have other problems, these too will be magnified as well.It could be this ( M... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? If a passive device is used, its an impedance that sits between the circuit driving the interconnect cable in the source, and what is being driven (the amplifier). That is why passive volume controls are so sensitive to cables: This is false.To ex... | |
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? Not when many poweramps use opamps as their balanced inputs, and then it routes to their single ended input. In these cases by using the single ended input, you get a better sound, as there’s no opamp in the signal path then.Cheers George | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Any sort of metalic plating of the fuse wire in a fuse will change it's blow point🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️Just get these for a couple of bucks you fusers and be done with it. And save yourself a fortune in the process, as no fuse is better that any fuse t... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope A gold plating will not decrease resistance, it will increase it. 🤦♂️Sorry your dreaming, gold is one of the best conductors there is.Really is "The "Snake Oil" Trope" here. as the title says | |
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? Are Pre-Amps necessary? vanson1 With all the advances in digital sources, do we still need a $5,000 pre-amp? jasonbourne521,167 posts10-15-2021 10:31amPreamps can look real cool - like my Audio Research SP6! However a passive pot works just as we... | |
| Fuses amtprod12 posts georgehifi thank you for the info! I was -just- about to ask someone with electrical circuit engineering/design formal knowledge to explain how a fuse in audio equipment works, is used, and what/how it could flavor the sonic qualit... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Plating does not increase the gauge of the wire.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Oh dear,But you change the resistance by gold plating the filament, so it will not blow when it should!!. (dangerous)The best "sounding fuse" to you guys will be no fuse at all.Then ... | |
| Fuses yes and you are and good luck with it. 🙏 | |
| Fuses jasonbourne521,165 posts10-20-2021 12:40pmCurrent draw only comes from the power supply caps. That is why they are located at that place in an electronic circuit. The heating/cooling cycle of a fuse has zero effect on the ability of the PS caps ... | |
| Fuses Many of you don’t know what a fuse does.The AC mains fuse is supplying mains voltage to a transformer, which then supplies lower AC voltage to the AC to DC recifcation diodes, this DC is then is sent to the voltage storage capacitor banks. And the... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Belive what you want, 10mm of fuse wire is fuse wire, and you can't plate it with gold or anything exotic, as then it won't act as fuse wire anymore.Cheers George | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Wondering how the extremely popular Holo May fits among these dacs. +1 ditto from me too on this.As Stereophile raved about it, and JA said one of the best bench tests of a dac he's ever seen.https://www.stereophile.com/content/holoaudio-may-le... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope whatever🤦♂️ |