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In Reply to: RE: "power cords don't add distortion" posted by rick_m on July 04, 2014 at 09:06:54
You wrote,
"What? You don't care for the Phasy sound of Eddy and the Currents?
Actually I didn't know they did but then I think my breakers are just thermal. If these things are very serious issues that speaks poorly of the PSRR is in home audio... Which, sadly, wouldn't be exactly news..."
You're breakers are thermal? Are the wires coming into the breakers and leaving them thermal, too? ;-)
Follow Ups:
"Are the wires coming into the breakers and leaving them thermal, too? ;-)"
Sure, I just loosen the screws a little...
Seriously, I've never paid a bit of attention to the loop areas, or their positioning and such, it's just however the electrician(s) happened to do it. If there happens to be enough slack I could do an optimizing pass for the stereo circuit.
Have you actually experienced positive results by doing such things? I don't mean in theory, I mean in terms of readily hearable differences.
Tnx, Rick
You wrote,"Have you actually experienced positive results by doing such things? I don't mean in theory, I mean in terms of readily hearable differences."
Gosh, I always thought you were the theory guy and I was the application guy all these years. Do you mean to sit there and tell me you never wrapped your transformer in mu metal or opened the door of your breaker panel box, or demagnetized your CDs and interconnects, you know, just to see the effect of magnetism on the sound? Color me shocked. Of course, I've experienced positive results by doing such things. Now get up off that lounge chair and do such things!
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"opened the door of your breaker panel box"
LOL! Of COURSE I've never opened the panel door' How could I? It's never been closed... I store my ladders propped in front of it and couldn't reach the breakers through them if the door was shut!
Maybe there's a larger, manly principle involved here: sloppy garages make for better sound.
So let me ask you one: Have you tried just taking off the front panel? That should open up the magnetic circuit for several of the current loops. Just askin', not that I would ever suggest doing something so risqué...
If there is enough slack maybe I could reroute the grounds of the stereo circuit nearer the input bus also. Hmmm
"I always thought you were the theory guy". I is! I know more about eddy currents than the McKenzie R. does...
Rick
Did I ever take off the door on the breaker panel? What do you think? You think these hands have been soaking in Ivory Liquid?
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Not the door, have you ever tried removing the front panel itself which would take the door along with it? Along with all the steel between the breakers.
Just curious, I'm not advocating such a thing of course...
Rick
I have a non magnetic frame and non magnetic door. There are a number of, uh, treatments inside around the romex and breakers as well, you know, unmentionables.
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"I have a non magnetic frame and non magnetic door. There are a number of, uh, treatments inside around the romex and breakers as well, you know, unmentionables."
COOL!....
Aluminum? Is the main box still steel? Custom? Stock? Home-brew? Enough questions? Maybe just one more: Of what ilk was the main noticable sonic difference?
Tnx,
R.
Sorry, but that's classified.
Less distortion. :-)
"Sorry, but that's classified."
Bummer, you reverted.
Oh well...
Rick
Loose lips sink ships. Old audiophile axiom.
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