jeff_jones
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| Surge Suppression vrs. Lighting and Power Spikes "The purpose of grounding tv/radio antennas is to prevent them from having a neg or pos charge that would attract lightning." I don't think this is true but am looking for reference material to verify or dispute the concept, not arguing. When you ... | |
| Surge Suppression vrs. Lighting and Power Spikes "People believe that grounded antenna attracts lightning."I'm one of those people. Lightning follows the path of least resistance to ground. | |
| How many electrons? 12, if you've got the fat cable with the really big electrons. | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner Elizabeth, it is about where the wires are in the circuit(s) and what is in front of them. If the thread would have been about the effect of high capacitance versus low capacitance ic's between pre amp and amp (for example) that would be a differe... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner A power conditioner is intended to "duh dut dut dahh" condition the incoming ac power. If it works, it provides a more uniform ac output with an improved amount of immunity to trash on the ac line. In other words, if your power conditioner works t... | |
| Warm CD player for older CDs with digital glare? Njoe Tjoeb, base model. | |
| Help with hum I think the manufacturers specs for hum on your pre are -88db below full power. Whether or not this results in audible hum on most systems I can't answer, what I do know is that there is audible hum with either of two tube phono pre's that I've ow... | |
| Ten audiophile commandments Methinks maybe my leg being pulleth. | |
| 50' speaker or 50' interconnect? I'm running about 30 feet of phoenix gold balanced cable between my phono stage and pre-amp. I'm very happy with it and price was about $75 (if memory serves). If I was dealing with your issue I'd give them a call. | |
| What makes strings sound "sweet"? The room acoustics do make a difference, and I think the folks are on the right track pointing to microphone errors & higher ordered harmonic distortion created by limitations of the recording/playback equipment. I also wonder if inaccuracy of... | |
| Practical Power Approaches 2nd vote for what Chuck said & for not feeding the crooks silly money.My approach, dedicated circuit, Richard Gray power conditioner (bought used here), walmart or wherever I shop 1st 12 gauge extension cords as needed, stock pcs. | |
| To buy or not to buy a used cartridge? If you buy a new cart from the dealer you don't know if it was really a demo unit (the last 'new' one I received came with mounting screws missing from the box). My experience buying and selling used carts has been 100% positive to date. As a gene... | |
| Signs of poor electricity in home...? %JJones...what would foil do or more important what would it prove? Again, excuse my ignorance, what would the plugging lamp into same plug/receptacle prove? What am I looking for during experiment/troubleshooting? %The foil is hard for radio wave... | |
| Signs of poor electricity in home...? I had a weird similar problem (buzzing noise inside amp, everything else in house aok) that was fixed by tightening all connections in my breaker box. The manufacturer suggested that it was more than likely a neutral connection that was causing th... | |
| Finding a Power Cord that sounds great I too was skeptical of power cords & then I thought "ok smarty, if that is the case then try it without one". I am amazed by the 'black backgrounds' & giant sense of 'space between the notes' that this change has made in my system, but I w... |