jafreeman
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| Ching Cheng Power Cords Cal3713, if you are just beginning on the tangled, slippery path of audio cables, tread carefully. You are right to spend less at first--until you settle on a viewpoint, a belief about the importance of all of your cables. If you decide they are i... | |
| Why do my ears ring with my new amplifier? Listen at lower volumes for two days. If your ears don't ring, then you have been playing it too loud, like being at a rock concert or any loud venue and coming out with ringing. This is part of incurring noise-induced hearing loss, by the way. Ti... | |
| Ching Cheng Power Cords The article by Blue Jean Cables, featured on Audiohilics, is a good example of persuasive marketing that serves their interests. Blue Jeans--not fancy but comfortable and affordable--as the name implies, Blue Jeans Cable appeals to the buyer who w... | |
| For Your Amusement, or Dismay... Agree with the author--it really comes down to the whole experience one wants--if it's the nostalgia, the album art, collecting albums, the phono set-up, the flipping of the record, the work it took to get it all right, then records have all of th... | |
| Is revealing always good? Rob, regarding tube equivalents for your 6CG7's, just call one of the many on-line tube stores. I had the convenience of going to my high-end retailer, who gave me a set of Sovtek tubes, supplied by ARC for retail replacements in their gear. In th... | |
| Is revealing always good? Robsker, if you are using the stock tubes supplied by AVA, try replacing them with something else, e.g., tubes recommended by ARC and sold by your high-end dealer who may represent ARC products. i did this with two older AVA fet valve amps, and th... | |
| Power Cords Rule Michelzay, I made these cables from all Furutech materials, using their Alpha OCC 11 AWG AC cable, which I then dissected to remove the three conductors so I could use five conductors per cable. This is not necessary to build a very good DIY cable... | |
| Power Cords Rule Jam, see my power cable report of 12/14 in this forum--just one example of making the materials work, but you can use any high-quality DIY AC cable and plugs with screw/clamp terminations--eg, Furutech. Basic tools--vices help--love the Klein Cata... | |
| Advice for Newbie Hi Nick, Not sure why the lack of response to your needs, at least on tech talk. Perhaps the PC forum crowd would be more familiar with your server and format. It seems a lot of us are old school, stand-alone-system listeners. Therefore, the whole... | |
| Sub woofer power cable? You have already upgraded the line-level signal cables for your RELs? | |
| Does an isolation transformer improve a power cable? Thanks for posting page 10. It seems to lean toward "...a newly derived system ground." At any rate, I am very pleased with this product, and yes, the 1200C is plugged into the RM PRO. This is what Richard Gray calls their IsoGray configuration, w... | |
| Does an isolation transformer improve a power cable? Jim, thanks for that in-depth manual from Exact Power. This should be enough info for anyone who wants to improve power to a system. I'm still not sure where this leaves us on the question of a separately derived power source or an isolated ground... | |
| Does an isolation transformer improve a power cable? Jim, thanks for that clarification. I should have said that the ampacity I ran ends at my receptacle. Beyond that, the product supplies a 12 AWG cord and a 20 amp breaker. The cord is grounded to my receptacle and into the transformer. The company... | |
| Does an isolation transformer improve a power cable? Jafant, yes, I have had the 240V/120V Substation and the upgraded to the RM Pro for even more power and outlets. Yes, I have a dedicated 240 volt line, made from 10 AWG Romex and a 30 amp breaker. Svan, even though power is not made at the transfo... | |
| Does an isolation transformer improve a power cable? Mike, the Equ=tech 10wq system looks like a superb product--I am sure it is giving you a very quiet power supply that allows all the inner details to come through. Jea, the unit I am using must be a grounded power system, as it has six grounded re... |