spatialking
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| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Please explain how the noise of the switching of a full wave rectifier in a power supply can pass back through the primary winding of the power transformer and through the power cord and end up on the AC mains. I can answer this question - wha... | |
| Joule VZN-100 users: Are you keeping the amp plugged in at all times? I'd call the company and see if you can talk to the engineer / designer. S/he will have opinions on this to be sure. They can tell you where the trade-off is between shutdown and simply leaving them on. It isn't just the hours of idle time b... | |
| Amp experience Well, the additional power means those music peaks won't be clipped. For example, if your speakers are pulling 20W and a 10:1 peak comes along, a 200W amp can handle it nicely and probably a bigger peak than that. A 100W amplifier will clip th... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i - Headphone Noise I haven't with mine and I have two of them. That is a classic symptom of a missing or open ground. Getting a new unit is a wise move. | |
| Need to suggestions who can repair broken RCA input jack on Classe Audio DR-8 If the manufacturer can repair it, quit looking and start boxing!! Even if they charge 2x as much as a local guy, I'd still send it to the manufacturer. At the very least, you know it is done right! I have had some good luck with local repair ... | |
| Turntable Interconnects? Digital interconnects are supposed to be interconnects with a 75 Ohm characteristic impedance. The catch is you can't get that with an RCA jack, it isn't physically possible. Bryston uses a 75 Ohm BNC connector just for this reason. There is ... | |
| Spotify or Pandora @jim204 - Sound Tap! Thank-you! | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD @dayglow - that is a very interesting observation! 3x on analog to equal or better digital playback. Yeah, now that I think about it, that makes a whole lot of sense! | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. I am not sure what you mean by shunt mode filters - you mean like TVS diodes and MOV's? If so, yes, they are sacrificial and will blow if they are overpowered and aren't designed properly. UL1449 approval means they won't burst into flames and... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables For those of you who like solid core wire, try 14g Romex. Really! Tie the center ground wire to the black and connect those to your speaker black terminal. Connect the white wire to the speaker red terminal. Romex cable is designed so that the f... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. Yes, the Furman is very similar to the Equi-Tech unit and no permit is required to install it, a most definite plus. I am sure it is a solid unit but like all balanced 120VAC units, there is no safety code approval for this. The datasheet did ... | |
| Spatial Coherence I am rebuilding one with new dual mono power supplies and built in UPS system. I also had a new motherboard made for it, so only the original valves and chassis are used. I'll post here how it turns out, I still have a few months of work to d... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp Actually the process of pulling the bits off the CD disk is an analog process, not a digital process. However, once it passes through the comparator, it is indeed a digital signal. For this reason, I feel a lot more confident that the music fro... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Actually, I believe folks here are confusing photons with protons. If you get photons in your cables, your least problem is sound quality. Rather you have an arc happening inside the cable, which won't stay inside the cable for long.Signal and ... | |
| New $24,000 inter-connect Air tube cables have been around for a very long time. Auto FM stereo is what brought that on since the antenna is far enough away from the radio that a super low capacitance cable was needed. I'm not sure if they are still using it or have som... |