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| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? Ldatlof - the "brick" performs the same function as a wall-wart. It takes AC in, puts DC out. It is an outboard power supply.Since the power supply supplies DC through the mini-plug connector that goes into the dock, there is no AC current in the ... | |
| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? Easy explanation - you posted an attempt at a snide remark, aimed solely at me. Apparently your little feelings are still hurt. | |
| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? Ldatlof - the only Sirius home dock I know of is the Audiovox, and it uses a wall-wart power supply - no AC fed to the unit. In all siriusness, if you're using an AC Enhancer on a wall-wart, your house has already burned down, and you were in it.T... | |
| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? Quincy, the interconnects do provide a ground path from one component to another. This ground path is a low-voltage, low-current signal ground though - it is not designed for nor intended to be a safety ground for high-voltage, high-current AC pow... | |
| Laserdiscs - PAL and NTSC I can't answer your questions; however, I can tell you this:All the Sony televisions sold in the US are hardwired for NTSC. If you bought your Sony TV in the US, it will not display pictures from a PAL source. You will need to convert PAL to NTSC.... | |
| Question about Pioneer Elite DV-45A Universal In the Initial Settings menu on the OSD, there is a section where you tell the player what part of an SACD you want it to play. The choices are:- 2 ch Area- Multi Channel Area- CD AreaThis becomes the default for any SACD put in the player, and ca... | |
| What mixes with Transparent Ultra Xl Speaker Cable Bwyoung, Transparent strongly recommends AGAINST using two separate cables for bi-wiring as you suggest. They say the networks can interact in unpredictable ways and affect the sound.At one point I tried a bi-wire with MW Super on the top and MW o... | |
| DAC that beat Mark levinson 360s ?? I've never heard an "upsampling" DAC that was as good as the Levinson. | |
| DAC that beat Mark levinson 360s ?? Since your transport is only capable of outputting 16/44.1kHz, why do you think you need a 24/192kHz-capable DAC to go with it? | |
| Top Ten Speaker Cables of all time?... The best reason I can think of why Mint would recommend 14ga over 10 or 12 is that anyone but Superman would have a hard time twisting 10ga the way Mint suggests :-) | |
| What mixes with Transparent Ultra Xl Speaker Cable Do what Cytocycle suggests. Transparent's recommendation is that it's better to have a high-quality single cable with jumpers than use lesser cables for bi-wire. My previous experience has borne this out.OTOH, if you can afford to go the Bi-Cable ... | |
| SACD vs DVD-A speaker set-up geometry Kal answered your question about DVD-A in the beginning of the thread. | |
| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? Gregadd, you are right on target - Tbg's pride is hurt. | |
| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? Tbg - responses in order of your questions:No.If you choose to play around with things electrical, you really should develop a better understanding about electrical standards and construction of the equipment you are playing with. Your assumptions... | |
| Is cheater plug safe with grounded monster power? According to a study done by Iowa State University, 2/3rds of household electrical fires begin in the plugs or cords of household appliances and electrical devices.The point of all this ties back to the original question about hum. The point is: d... |