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| Mark Levinson 533H Amp fuse information Have a ML 533H amp. It’s about 4 years old. The fuse ( I assume its the fuse) in the right channel blew about a month ago after a power surge from my utility. Yep had amp plugged into Tripp Lite surge suppressor; Surge suppressor was toast after ... | |
| Hubbell 5362 Backwire vs Sidewire Solid wire, side terminals. Stranded wire, back wire, terminal plate.. | |
| Using 15 amp power conditioner and power cords with 20 amp wired outlet. This is not good? Right...? Don’t you want isolation? The problem is the use of 4 conductors in the cable twisted assembly instead of only 3 conductors. Hot, neutral, and equipment grounding, conductor. Solution. Armor Clad for Healthcare Facilit... | |
| Using 15 amp power conditioner and power cords with 20 amp wired outlet. @masi61 An Overview of Audio System Grounding and Interfacing. https://centralindianaaes.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/indy-aes-2012-seminar-w-notes-v1-0.pdf Read page 16. Read pages 31 thru 36. Pay close attention to pages 32 thru 35~ ~ ~ ~ Middle... | |
| Power Conditioners---old electrics in my house. @ptss Thanks for the kind words.Jim. | |
| Ethernet Cables When I switched from cat6 to cat7 cable I experienced significantly fewer dropouts @ kren0006 Just a guess the CAT6 cable is a UTP ( Unshielded Twisted Pair) and the CAT7 is a STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) cable. It’s the shielding that is making t... | |
| Can you ground A Rega turntable? There are times not often but times when I go to lower the tonearm when I touch the lever I get a hum. Rega grounds the tone arm tube to the phono preamp using the shield of the left channel of the phono interconnect cable. It might be the con... | |
| Ethernet Cables Ethernet cables work or they don't Trouble shooting. Pages 8 thru 11https://warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/cabling/activities/fluke_copper_testing.pdf Just one example. An Ethernet cable may work but the receiving device may ex... | |
| It was 20 years ago today... @onhwy61 20 years and some. onhwy61 4,333 posts 05-11-2000 4:11pm Consider the Totem 1. Alternatively consider the Sony SM7a. The Sony gets no respect, but it’s a borderline great speaker and a tremendous value. https://forum.audiogon.com/users/o... | |
| It was 20 years ago today... BTW, Anyone know when our little club house was launched? Hard to tell anymore. Several years ago when Audiogon changed the format many of the members actual start dates were lost in the change over from the old to the new.albertporter start date... | |
| It was 20 years ago today... @ viridian Congratulations on your 20 years of being an Audiogon member! | |
| Directionality Explained Here’s the actual John Curl quote for my post above.Page 15/18 Also, we couldn’t use mylar capacitors, which are fairly efficient coupling capacitors. While mylars are fairly efficient from a size and cost point of view, we realized they have prob... | |
| Directionality Explained @ glupson and djones51, You can’t have it both ways..... You guys can’t require measurements to prove what some people say they hear from cables, and then turn around and use your opinions and theories why all cables don’t sound the same. Not ever... | |
| Cleaning tube pins @OP,Been doing it for at least twenty years. Alcohol quickly evaporates. What you are wiping dry is any water content the alcohol didn’t evaporate with it. . | |
| Cleaning tube pins @ daveyf I use Isopropyl alcohol. Dampen a clean white cotton cloth with Isopropyl alcohol. (Like a piece of an old white T shirt). Wipe down the pins good with the dampened alcohol clean cloth. Continue cleaning the pins with a new clean part of ... |