Notes and thoughts on AC line noise and noise in your hi-fi. Winding a power cord up tightly to shorten it may detune it as an antenna and make it a sort of...
Hello, As many "videophiles" know one of the better investments one can make is to obtain the Digital Video Essentials (DVE) or Avia DVD to adjust the video...
I've recently stumbled on this topic on the web. It seems that providing balanced AC power to your source equipment can provided a dramatic lowering of the...
Good question Paul, The product linked below is tempting me. Has anyone tried it? jim... http://www.transcendentsound.com/power_supply.htm ... drowned...
... That's a tempting kit indeed. check out: http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_10_3/feature-article-isolation- transformer-8-2003.html I also found some...
Hello, one easy tweak that worked really well for me was to change the capacitor in each of my speakers to a Solen Fast Cap (polypropylene). I used the exact...
Hello Everyone please feel free to add good DIY links on our link section. jim...--- In diy_audio_tweaks@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Baptista" ... or ... change...
Hello, To reduce eystrain and assist with the relatively low contrast ratio of today's fixed pixel devices background or "bias" lighting can be used. ...
Hello Everyone: I sure hope this group is more lively than the digital TV group on yahoo. All ten people on there have not managed to generate any new stuff...
Hello, That is true. The HD-VHS recorders will not record HD via component. Only IEEE-1394 "firewire". Don't recall that the Hughes has the firewire output....
Here is another site that I have found for balanced power stuff. They do have some good tutorials there too. http://www.equitech.com/ And here is another site...
... isolation- ... Hello Paul et all I have a balanced power setup based on a Topaz Ultra Isolation transformer. I have the 2.5KVA (it's very big and very...
Here is the thread from FMtuners that I started there. For those who read this group and not the FMtuners group, I have pasted the complete message from there....
My office has sheetrock walls with some type of offset support system. The architect described it and my current home contractor knows about it, but don't ask...
The balanced power at Transcendence is a transformer setup, not a generator. The regenerator at PS Audio states it is not a balanced power system. It appears...
I use that same speaker cable design myself. There is an update to the design reffered to as the UBYTE-2. Has anyone tried this out yet, it looks pretty...
To help reduce vibration from entering my playback systems, I had a friend build reinforced boxes of mdf to place my turntable and CD player on. The box under...
Vibration is something I have some questions on. there seems to be two schools of thought here. School 1) "hard" things like spikes for example School 2)...
My speakers are *spiked* to a concrete floor. This, as opposed to speakers sitting on the floor gives me the best sound. Also, there are bags of lead shot on...
If the acoustic energy in the room is going to vibrate the shelf that a turntable (for instance) is on, then an absorber like sand or felt/rubber/felt pucks,...
I like both methods - depending upon what it is you need to accomplish. As I understand it, spikes are good under impule-inducing gear, like speakers. My...
Sorry - should say 'impulse' (two times!) - sheesh! ... like ... columns ... They ... to ... there ... Sorbutane ... on ... to ... experiences. ... etc. ... ...
Jim, I've played with lots of different spikes and cones and other damping techniques and always found them to make surprising differences in the sound of my...
Yes, I've tried bicycle tubes under my power amps, it made me nervious the way they tilted. I was afraid my cat might hurt herself crawling around so gave that...
Has anyone had success building these DIY? Any recommended materials? I would assume a rougher or more open weave cloth would be best? For some strange reason...
How about lots of windows in just the right places, which just so happen to then need drapes? Maybe then you could spring for some drapes that just so happen...
I like the way you think! It has crossed my mind to put drapes on walls without windows too. Still cheaper than most commercial sound control products. But...
I would think that plastic/vinyl/leather types of material would be more reflective of sound than a softer, woven type, like wool/cotton/polyester. Come to...
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