RE: Howzabout no ground? - Dryginger2 - Tweakers' Asylum

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RE: Howzabout no ground?

In Reply to: Howzabout no ground? posted by Waxxy on September 25, 2014 at 19:47:50:

Waxxy,

May I recommend grounding to a polished, contact-enhanced brass-fitting on the water-pipe beneath your kitchen sink/ bathroom basin with Teflon-covered, silver-coated, 18-gauge, copper-wire from eBay? Allowing the corruption to escape via an uncompromised water-pipe infrastructure extending miles drops the noise floor substantially more than floating (that merely isolates from domestic ground corruption).

Should you have a Mac Mini music server (computers have so much dirty linen to send out), then using the sound input jack with a 3.5mm stereo plug to connect its ground to the other unused water pipe with more of that wire produces another larger additional drop in the level of background distortion. Introduce the negative terminal of a large 6-volt battery into that wire near the Mac Mini to increase the differential and the signal-to-noise ratio improves markedly again. In four years of daily tweaking this is the single biggest bang-for-buck sound quality improvement that I have yet heard other than enclosing the Mac Mini's internal power supply with MuMetal.

Economizing with less expensive copper wire is tempting at first but it noticeably stops the reduction of ground corruption on the top end, so having done both, I would not recommend that false economy.

This tweak (only a refinement on my part) is addressed to you and any other open-minded member as I am well aware that it may be a ground too far for the safety anxieties of the majority.

Dry Ginger

http://www.ebay.com/itm/25-feet-18-AWG-Silver-Teflon-Wire-Wh (Open in New Window)

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Follow Ups Full Thread

Topic - Clean Ground - skudra 11:18:44 09/21/14 (11)

Howzabout no ground? - Waxxy 19:47:50 09/25/14 (2)

RE: Howzabout no ground? - Dryginger2 15:48:32 10/04/14 (1)

RE: Howzabout no ground? - Waxxy 18:52:44 10/17/14 (0)

Very bad Idea, electrical system should only have ONE ground source. - ABliss 09:24:32 09/24/14 (3)

RE: Very bad Idea, electrical system should only have ONE ground source. - rhyno 17:57:53 09/24/14 (2)

RE: Very bad Idea, electrical system should only have ONE ground source. - jea48 21:02:31 09/24/14 (1)

There needs to be sticky on this topic. - Glen B 12:34:04 10/02/14 (0)

RE: Clean Ground - jea48 18:18:35 09/23/14 (0)

As I understand it, Roy is recommending the ADDITION of another... - jeffreybehr 12:25:12 09/22/14 (0)

Here's a link. (NT) - jeffreybehr 11:53:12 09/22/14 (0)

follow the thread then see if you want try it...nt - Uncle Mike 18:29:41 09/21/14 (0)

Follow Ups

RE: Howzabout no ground? - Dryginger2 15:48:32 10/04/14 (1)

RE: Howzabout no ground? - Waxxy 18:52:44 10/17/14 (0)

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