spatialking
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| 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! | |
| Discovering I may have the cleanest AC power in USA @12blistn - In that case, twist solid wire instead of the stranded stuff. Do keep the ground or earth wire out of the twist. That is, only Line and Neutral should be twisted together. You can get flex conduit in 1/2" or 3/4" conduit sizes and... | |
| Discovering I may have the cleanest AC power in USA @12blistn - If you do use Romex inside conduit then do upsize the AWG since it is not designed to operate in conduit and it may overheat. I'd go to 10AWG just to avoid the problem. However, it is going to be stiff and the solid Romex doesn't l... | |
| 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 ... | |
| Discovering I may have the cleanest AC power in USA RFI eating bacteria! Cool! I have a can of that! I sprayed that stuff on my stereo but then my DAC at 196KHz quit working. Worse yet, my FM tuner went up in smoke. Dang, I hate it when that happens! | |
| 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... |