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| New listening room electrical design one more question- how would you suggest to install 2, or 3 duplexes on the same line in the same location?The wiring method depends on the construction of the house. Without knowing the construction of the house there is no easy answer to your qu... | |
| New listening room electrical design However, not being an electrician, I’m having a hard time to picture having one or two lines with 6-8 outlets located in different locations?First, my intent of my previous post was not to discourage you from installing multiple dedicated circuits... | |
| New listening room electrical design The new system proposed outline:New dedicated subpanel, exclusively for the audio components (main located in the garage, adjacent to the new room).JMHO, if the subpanel will be somewhat close to the audio equipment’s branch circuit wall receptacl... | |
| What is DC offset on the AC power line? gdhal,Lots of stuff inside there. I do not have any experience with the Emotiva device. Are you experiencing a loud mechanical buzzing/humming sound coming from a torrid transformer in a piece of your audio equipment?There is a member here on Agon... | |
| Krell Help srafi,Is this what the back of each of your mono's look like?http://www.highperformancestereo.com/krell-krs200-monos.htmlsrafi said:"Due to some electric issue one XLR channel on the pre has stopped working though the RCA outputs work fine. The wa... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... It appears the pins on a miniature tube are made of Kovar.I posted a message asking the question and here is one of the responses I received.Posted by Steve O (A) on June 19, 2016 at 12:44:03 In Reply to: RE: Most commonly it is not steel, but...... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... From Upscale AudioQuote:"I have a brand new tube that’s noisy. When I put my old tubes back they worked fine. This tube is defective.Okay... I know this one’s not really a "question" but we get it so often that it needs to be addressed anyway. Man... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... lewm said:"Based on the brief bit of researching I did do, my first thought is that this guy is incorrect as regards the composition of the pins and that he used the word "steel" without really thinking about it. Moreover, I think any one of us wo... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... lewm,Here is some reading material for you.http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/d.pl?audio/faq/joes-tubes.html#6DJ8 | |
| Bad NOS tubes... aolmrd1241 said:Pins were clean.Did you clean them?When were the tubes manufactured? Gold plated steel pins I assume?How tight do the pins of the tubes fit the tube socket female contacts?Did your tubes come boxed like this?Copy and paste between ... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... aolmrd1241 said:"After 2-3 months of use I started to hear unacceptable levels of noise from my speakers,you know, the dirty sound of that dreaded tube noise of a scratching, distorted, dirty volume pot type of noise,which totally infringes upon t... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) atmashere said:^^ You won’t have arcing- that would be audible! A small amount of arcing has a way of turning into a lot of it in a short period of time...Well that depends. On the AC mains side it depends on the size of the conductors and or the ... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) I’m reminded of a post by herman.Quote:"If you say the AC fuse blew because there was too much current flowing through it everybody nods in agreement even though that isn’t true. If you say the wire in the fuse melted because it got too hot after ... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) I would add IF the contact between the fuse end caps and fuse holder clip/s contact/s are such that a VD can be measured (From fuse clip to fuse clip) then what else can/is going on in the poor connection? Maybe an ever so slight arcing between th... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) Al,Thanks for the clarification. Jim |