rodman99999
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| Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer! ...prepare your home for potential power grid meltdown. People lived in cold climates before electricity. I'm all about having a generator/home power source, in the event of a power outage. However: if what you're dependent on is no... | |
| Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer! Don't know if this has been covered, in all of the above rhetoric, but: The closer one lives to the North Pole (for this event), the greater the effect of the electromagnetic disturbances. ie: Possible blown grid transformers/power... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? Should have called the cable company. Try before you buy! EXACTLY! There are also a number of other cable manufacturers and purveyors that allow a listening period and return policy, if ... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @squared80 (et al)- Enjoy your snake oil. Anyone who says high priced power cords or speaker wire changes the sound is lying, ignorant, or a victim of confirmation bias. Another rerun, since so many of you are a waste of keystroke... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @mikhailark - ...selected to deliver power in environment full of RF interference and when performance may literally mean life or death. They would perform well in a less hostile conditions :-) No doubt: they're selected to dependably del... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @mikhailark - I'm fairly certain; very little critical audio listening goes on in fighter planes. However: here's something that NASA selected, to conduct power, for their portable LASERs. https://homeaudio.analysis.plus... | |
| Did anyone else disconnect thier equipment due to the geomagnetic storms? Dryers typically run on 240V, so: I 'spose they'd get a double dose of any surge. @mahgister - Were you affected by the 1989 Quebec Solar Outage? | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? For anyone ACTUALLY interested in doing some study, another rewind: Anyone needing a rationale for experimenting with new cables in their system and/or feeling dissuaded by the Church of Denyin'tology's antiquated electrical do... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? Back in March 2022: a thread about power cords and break/burn-in was started. I hate to type, so: I'm going to copy/paste some of my speculations. That a highly complex musical signal, MIGHT affect Poynting vectors and signal spee... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? Time for a rewind: "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." (Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872) "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain ... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords Time for a rerun: Anyone needing a rationale for experimenting with new cables in their system and/or feeling dissuaded by the Church of Denyin'tology's antiquated electrical doctrines: ... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords Isn't it amusing: someone that doesn't even know what Physics considers the best electrical conductor, has the unmitigated gall to mention Science? What hubris! A perfect example... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords Hi, @mrdecibel - Every cable, currently in my system, is silver (except for the 8TCs on my Subs). ie: 1 pair) Kimber KS1030 & 1 pair) KS1130, 2) SR AC Master Coupler X pcs, 6) Zu Mother pcs and 1 pair) Analysis Plus Big Silver Ovals. ... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords Copper is the best metal for conduction of electricity. correction: Silver is the best metal for conduction of electricity. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-most-conductive-element-606683 | |
| can you help me narrow my speaker cables short list please? @garebear - You could use a coat hanger and not tell the difference, and that's a fact. ……really ; “ a coat hanger “‘. Wow …..maybe another hobby is in order if that’s how building your system is approached. Perhaps they mi... |