kijanki
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| How to protect my amp without changing the sound? No, I could not detect any difference with arrester. Furman with its tight, strong, non-sacrificial under/overvoltage protection and build in circuit breaker is probably enough but double protection sounds better. In addition I've already lost gar... | |
| Directional speaker cables - switching direction Jea48, I don't know if conductor can be directional but copper oxides are semiconductors. Their orientation might be related to grain orientation - a question for metallurgist.AFAIK dielectric affects speed of current. This speed is not a light sp... | |
| How to protect my amp without changing the sound? Audiolabyrinth, Furman doesn't change the sound or at least I cannot detect it (i don't listen very loud)/ If anything, bass got more even/musical. Strange thing is that TV plugged into video outlet got better colors, cleaner and more saturated. I... | |
| Directional speaker cables - switching direction So if energy flows in one direction, which direction does it flow?+ to - or - to + ?From source to load independently of polarity. | |
| How to protect my amp without changing the sound? Linear power supplies take current in narrow spikes of high amplitude. Any impedance in the path causes proportionally high voltage drop and the loss of dynamics. I use Furman Elite 20PFi and cannot tell the difference. Perhaps power factor correc... | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? If I cover 3/4 of my 55" HDTV I will get even less pixels than my old Sony Triniton, but picture is still far, far superior. It is not amounts of dots but quality of the picture/process. HDTV uses the same amount of bandwidth as analog TV but deli... | |
| Do you always keep the Amplifier powered on My espresso is about 1500W for 20min (minimum to warmup machine) making 0.5kWh per day (for just one coffee) while my amp and the DAC take together 20W for 24hrs = 0.48kWh. Landscape lighting takes much more, not to mention driving SUV, watching p... | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? Works for HDTV | |
| Directional speaker cables - switching direction But power is delivered only one direction thru electromagnetic field. Who said anything about displacement of electrons? | |
| Do you always keep the Amplifier powered on That's true it wastes electricity but so does making coffee, watching TV etc. It is for me a matter of convenience. With high power class A amp it might be a different story. | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? vinyl playback offers some unique musical qualities that are unavailable with the digital formatsYou mean noise, pops and clicks? | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths? Agree, the difference is very small. Could my love for symmetry come from watching too many episodes of Monk? | |
| Uneven speaker cable lengths? Imaging and coherence are very important to me. Would you replace just one of the tweeters with the best one you can afford or replace one of the monoblocks with much better one. Should it still bring improvements because "one could produce result... | |
| Do you always keep the Amplifier powered on My bad - I was looking only at the cost of electricity. From my electric bill:375 KWH TOTAL@$0.0661/KWH GENERA 375 kWh X 0.06610 $24.79but it comes to $49 with delivery charges, fees and taxes.I made mistake, but it was a small one - 100% :)Still,... | |
| Do you always keep the Amplifier powered on Electricity in my area costs about $0.006 per kWh. For 40W it would be $0.0576 daily = $21 per year. My amplifier (total idle power = 10W) that costs me $5/year doesn't even have power switch. No power switch on my Benchmark DAC1 (also 10W) or App... |