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| Which wood and design for diy monitor stands? As a longtime wood worker, I urge you to worry less about the kind of wood and focus more on the construction. It is important to note that laser interferometry tests proved that vibrations from the woofer can move the cabinet 1000 times greater i... | |
| Is fiberglass safe? I believe 3M made some very nice sound absorbing panels, which looked great. a bit pricey but my wife loved the looks so obviously, it is a bargain! | |
| Survey-What is your most used source? FM tuner for sure, since I listen in the car, garage, road trips, etc. CDs are second, LP is third.However, for serious listening, it is LPs, CDs, and FM in that order. | |
| Outdoor FM Antenna question Thanks Eldartford, I will do that. | |
| Copper Sleeve over IEC Hey, this is a great idea! I'll have to give it a try.Note if you ground the copper, it becomes a capacitor relative to the AC Mains. If you don't ground it, then it is a shorted turn. These are quite different entities: one is a capacitor and the... | |
| Outdoor FM Antenna question Question for Dill and Eldarford: Do either of you use these antennas with more than one tuner? If so, what are you using to split the signal? After reading up on these two units, it occurred to me it might be better to buy two of them, or maybe on... | |
| Outdoor FM Antenna question Thanks for your comments, I will look into those models. Eldarford, you are correct; we have an HOA here and I don't want to start a neighbors war with a 30 foot yagi rotor FM antenna on my roof! Although, given the choice... | |
| Ebony Wine Stopper Blanks Hey guys, you can mail order wine cork blanks! Try woodcraft.com or www.pennstateind.com . You can also buy maple there as well. You might want to check to see if there is a Woodcraft store near you, they are a national chain. | |
| Surge protection, no filtering, no regen please... Gs5556 brings up a good point. Airplanes are designed to withstand lightning because the plane's skin is ground to the electronics. Radio and radar towers survive because they have lightning rods. A lightning rod is a sacrificial metal rod which i... | |
| Dahlquist LP-1 Passive/Active crossover I agree with the need to replace the RCA jacks. Forget the sound improvement, the intermittent sound there - sound gone "Feature" will drive you nuts!I do have a schematic I made for it in PDF format, if anyone needs it. Just drop me an email and ... | |
| How hot is too hot? I would seriously question the integrity of the amplifier if the case temperature was so hot you can't hold your hand on it. If the temp is that hot, the varnish type insulation in the transformer core will degrade. If your bias current is off by ... | |
| Power Measure? There is an easy fix here. If you are only interested in voltage sags, which is the biggest problem, then you can buy sn inexpensive digital voltmeter with a max/min function. Set up the voltmeter for AC Volts, connect it to the power amp line cor... | |
| Surge protection, no filtering, no regen please... Frankly, you probably won't be able to buy anything that will protect you from lightning. There is do much energy in one bolt that there isn't much you can do about it. Look at it this way, the average lightning bolt has enough energy to lift the ... | |
| Let's build a subwoofer interconnect Funny thing, I just went through this same excercise. I opted for Blue jeans cables and I used the subwoofer interconnect they recommend. After doing the math, I came to the same conclusion they did.I do agree with the comment above about the subw... | |
| High priced power cable what about the romex Punkuk: Pick up a 12 gauge or 14 gauge IEC power cord at your local electronics shop for around 10 to 15 bucks. It has 3 to 4 times the conductivity of regular power cords.The problem with RF and EMI is that after you spend a few hundred bucks to ... |