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| Looking to build power cords. The Audioasylum recipe uses Belden 19364, which you may find difficult to find in smaller quantities (say less than 100 feet). A division of Belden (Volex) makes a pre-terminated cord, the Volex 17604 (search for Volex on line-easy to find them an... | |
| diy power cord: Shinyata black mamba That would be a pretty expensive DIY project. | |
| Smart Analytical Geek Required I may be wrong, but I don't think so. On a 16x9 widescreen, letterboxed movies shot in a 1:85:1 aspect ratio WILL fill the entire screen while those shot in 2:35:1 WILL NOT. On 2:35:1 movies, even with a widescreen you will still have the black ba... | |
| help with power cord Do an on line search for Volex and buy a Volex 17604 cord (14 guage, shielded) for about $10. Then buy a Hubell 5266 male end for about $7 or $8 and a good quality iec. (I used a Bulgin-cost $5 in Canada) but Schurter is another one with a lot of ... | |
| Pioneer DV 05 Mods and Tweaks Rick: Forgot to mention in my first post, my player also responded very well to isolation-I use vibrapods and sandbag the top of the player-there are more sophisticated (and expensive) alternatives, but this type of isolation works well for me. I ... | |
| Long runs- digital or video S-Video is supposed to run into signal loss after 15 feet, although I run 21 feet without too much problem. Other cabling is probably less prone to signal loss than s-video, so if you can, run longer lengths of others and shorter lengths of S if y... | |
| Pioneer DV 05 Mods and Tweaks I don't own any movies so I can't comment on improvements to video performance, but the audio performance on my DVD player (not a Pioneer) was improved immensely by the following. Take off the lid and fasten industrial floor tile (80 cents each at... | |
| S-Video Cable - is there much difference Have to admit George, I've been impressed in the past by your lack of pretentiousness-you seem to be a no BS kind of guy and I like that. What S-Video cables are you using currently? Can you return the Monster if they don't work out? I honestly th... | |
| S-Video Cable - is there much difference I recently switched my system around and had to go from a 1 metre S-Video cable to a 7 metre run, which is supposed to be very bad. I was using Monster M1000V, which, at the time was the top of the line Monster, and ended up going to the base Trib... | |
| CD player:Arcam 9 or Rotel 991 If you're thinking of the Arcam, wait, as it's about to be discontinued and replaced with (according to Arcam) a better sounding player at the same price. | |
| Know of a "Dirt Cheap" tweak? Had a brief "thread discussion" with Dekay on this about a week ago and decided to try it as my CD player went out of warranty about a month ago. Go to Home Depot and buy the industrial vinyl floor tiles (3 at about 80 cents apiece). The industria... | |
| Mapleshade Vibration Control Dekay: Some interesting posts at Audioasylum about internally damping the chassis of CD players with good results-some different materials mentioned-can't actually recall but I believe one of the materials is quite commonly used in car audio insta... | |
| Mapleshade Vibration Control Sorry-posting quickly-attaching the vinyl tile to the top side of granite slabs-just want ot be clear on that! | |
| Mapleshade Vibration Control I use a Target shelf, but also use granite slabs on vibrapods within the Target shelf and have found that attaching "peel and stick" vinyl floor tile eliminates to a great extent the "ringing". Very cheap too. | |
| How Much Do You Need to Spend on a PC? I have owned or have experience with the following cords MIT Z (original), XLO, LAT, BMI Edge (entry level cord), Blue Cirlce BC 62 and Cardas Golden. For the money, the BC 62 and the Cardas Golden (I paid $200 for the Cardas, about $160 for the B... |