Probably more effective spending your time converting your single ended equipment to balanced I/O.
It's a commercial mid-fi product, you need to upgrade to true hi-fi gear to get significant RF ingress and mains noise on the output.
Datas, evidences ?
And, please, your amp + your cd player (or tuner, or any digital source connected to AC, but not connected together: photos of your oscilloscope with the prob connected between the 2 grounds. With and without this 20$ I am sure you still have on your bench (and its schematic, of course).
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Not so easy, OMHO.
Do you want to electronically and mechanically (holes for XLRs ?) modify each and every equipment in your hifi system ? CD player, DAT, Tape recorder, minidisk, computer source, preamp, digital filter, tuner+ amplifiers.
SSM2141/42(or equivalent) are not so good at HF common mode rejection,
and If you power them outside each gear, you are still in the same situation between this gear and its balanced line driver.
Good enough audio transformers are lot lot more expensive than a pair of 20W AC transformers, have very limited bandwidth and other shortcomings.
Easy irony, but you obviously don't understand the purpose of this improvement. Ground loops don't care about any mid or true (call it what you want) hifi.
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People like Waly seem to have a bias and think that all I do is spend money on Things that cost a lot. I spend a lot more on lifting this girl (and other) out of poverty situation than I ever did on audio. Being her Godfather has been the best thing I ever did. The hardest also.
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This is actually so true that it ain't funny anymore. Notably the boutique stuff from the minimalist signal path camp is affected.
You are looking for a prove of Nothing. What do you want to see, 500uV of 150Hz harmonic at the speakers terminal? I can do that. But Nothing would still be exactly Nothing.
Sorry for taking you seriously for a jiffy. This would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
If you are fully satisfied with your audio system and don't want to improve-it, what the hell are-you doing in here ? Play sports, instead.
I would love to, but there’s nothing at the output that needs a $20 or $1300 power filter.
That’s rich, reference please. The Nothing creates distortions. Would playing a 0 dBFS digital signal get distorted by the Nothing? Wait, why am I bothering you with such trivial questions?
I just asked you to do yourself what you ask to others.
You cannot compare apples to nothing.
You can not say that a medicine does not work for you if you have not swallowed the small blue pills.
You are talking of something you never tried, just for the pleasure of the contradiction, as always.
You have not measured the difference with it vs without, not tried to even listen to it. Nada.
"Nothing would still be exactly Nothing."
Same answer than the one i made to KSTR: If you are fully satisfied with your perfect system, what the hell are-you doing in here ? Oh, yes, I forgot: nibble Mr. Marsh's ankles, whatever the subject.
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Ground loops are a fact of life and you are going to have interchassis currents flowing between two pieces of equipment. It's going to work out better if you don't use that connection as a signal reference.
I am not saying that you are wrong to minimize the other potential sources of problems, but they feel like band-aids to me.
With regard to the mid-fi comment - No, I do understand. A lot of boutique ultra high-end gear is designed without things like adequate input RF filtering and with wiring schemes that guarantee failure. Probably all of these will sing with if a nearby GSM phone is negotiating with a tower, for example. Don't tell me you haven't heard the 217 Hz and harmonic tones from equipment before.
What is enough? If my DAC has a SFDR of 110 dB, why do I care to even spend $20. I would rather not use a power conditioner that hasn't gone through the relevant standards testing either... (yes, I am aware the Monster has).
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So your because Waly doesn't believe there is an audible improvement to be had in his system with a line conditioner, he should go play sports?
Why does it matter what he does anyway? Whether one "participates" or not does not affect the validity of a statement.
I just hope you will not die from a disease just because you do not "believe" in vaccines.
Do an adequate power filter can reduce RF pollution from AC plug ? Yes.
Do a power filter can reduce parasitic "ground currents". Yes.
Do you *know* if this can reduce HD and IM in your system ? NO.
What you imagine "can help" or not is irrelevant. Period.
- I have no RF pollution from the AC plug at the speaker terminal
- I don’t see any symptoms of “ground currents” at the speaker terminal.
- I don’t know many things, one of them being how to reduce HD and IM by removing a whatever amount of Nothing at the speaker terminal.
I’ll look for your precious help in my next life as a stork nesting on top of a radio station antenna pole.
- I don’t see any symptoms of “ground currents” at the speaker terminal.
- I don’t know many things, one of them being how to reduce HD and IM by removing a whatever amount of Nothing at the speaker terminal.
I’ll look for your precious help in my next life as a stork nesting on top of a radio station antenna pole.
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