In Reply to: Re: This tweak works very, very well.... posted by kenster on May 6, 2007 at 13:46:25:
No matter what I ground, be it the 15" woofer baskets, either of my 2 racks, or the 2 transofmers in my TVC the result is identical and audible each time...lowered noise floor. at least that's what i'd call it, no clue what's really going on.the 'background' noise disappears further into the abyss, the bass becomes louder, sharper and more fun while the rest of the presentation takes a big sign of relief & lets the music leap forth.
again, i have NO idea why this works, but it does.
I have been attaching some of the GRND wires directly to the Neutral plug-in on unused outlets, not the ground plug, rather than loading all of them onto the lug on my phono pramp.
In terms of the Hawthorne driver grounding, i learned of this on their forum. attaching the bare end to the Neg speaker binding post on the x-over is the right way to do it there.... i keep the other bare end in place on the frame with a piece of funky japanese duct tape.
NOW, i must dish since we're on the subject. A while back when i 1st grounded my Lovan racks I also attached to a wire to my window frames - my L/R has 19' feet of floor-to-ceiling glass & the frames are aluminum store front types. With the GRND wire going directly into an unused outlet on the same circuit as my gear, a high pitched tone overcame the sound. My system is real warm so its easy to know when this happens. Did this mean i was putting too much garbage into the circuit?? dunno. but i won't try grounding 100' linear feet of aluminum again. I had visions of a massive farraday cage!!!
matt
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- Its the exact same effect..... - mattcecil1@yahoo.com 09:01:03 05/07/07 (0)