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28th April 2009, 02:32 AM
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What is this?
http://www.synergisticresearch.com/p...nigma/overview
"tube based power supply for Active Shielding" Well thats a new one for me. I've seen the cables in Stereophile that use a bias voltage to supposedly cut down on noise, but one based on tubes? http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2008/10708syn/ $6000? For $6000 I will personally chauffeur you to a concert hall every week for one year 
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28th April 2009, 02:48 AM
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Incredible but not suprising. Yet another well hyped toy for filthy rich audiophool lawyers and doctors to pee away their money on.
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28th April 2009, 04:54 AM
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Umm, not that uncommon to use some high voltage gas thyratrons as rectifiers, and in that case the grid is used as the plate and the plate cap is left unconnected. A pair is usually used with FWCT... Not sure if this is what they are doing or not. FWIW this works quite well at a couple of hundred mA and a KV or two... Hope I am not giving anything away..
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28th April 2009, 10:19 PM
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Bootstrapped shield most probably. I used such a trick in a long cable snake to connect guitars directly to the mixing console.
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28th April 2009, 11:23 PM
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Isn't biasing an interconnect more or less the same idea as biasing crossover capacitors ?
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2nd May 2009, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: New Zealand
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Interesting to see that the 323A's top cap isn't even connected to anything.
Sorry for going off-topic, but isn't it funny to imagine what Apple Inc.'s lawyers will do once they see the Synergistic Research web page layout? I'm pretty tempted to let Apple know 
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2nd May 2009, 11:43 AM
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Location: Newark, DE
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The first sentence of the article explains exactly what the thing is:
"Sculpted as a work of industrial art..." |
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