Are you married? Nearly blind?
Wood isn't as cheap as people think. It use to be cheaper, but like much else DIY is still not cheap, but approachable.
I met someone who went to construction sites and offered to haul away hardwood flooring cut-offs for free. His entire house floors, ceilings, counter-tops were pieced together from 8 - 18" pieces. The extremes of eccentricity are sometimes a wonderful experience.
95% of flooring isn't much thicker than an 1/8th, maybe, of actual hardwood on top of other stuff.
John is 100% correct.
there will not be any awards, for being a stop-stick on the road to knowledge .
(other than tagged as a human race traitor .... )
you project too much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
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the lack of scientific understanding,
exhibited by the mass of posters in this
tread, is quite sad.
I'd like to think no one here is so scab-pickingly neurotic as to "try."
Forget about silly bits of wood. These are occupying my attention at the moment (the larger unit is just the passive radiator for the smaller one). This is where true "good sound" comes from. Real components and real engineering. Not a bunch of quacks, frauds and charlatans and the mentally ill rubes that they feed upon.
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Yes, BigE, that's the short cliche answer.
The rest of these couple of pages... Some is annoying, some is hilarious, and some is simply bizarre.
I'm often left with a feeling I can best describe as "rubbernecking a crash scene."
The rest of these couple of pages... Some is annoying, some is hilarious, and some is simply bizarre.
I'm often left with a feeling I can best describe as "rubbernecking a crash scene."
The publicity has shifted away from Bybee to general audiophile gullibility. Much has been said about audiophiles and their gullibility.
I'm keeping an "open mind".... maybe those gullible people are onto something.!
Sheesh.
Internet forums also act as places where people can have their beliefs validated, no matter how ridiculous they might seem. And hey, it's written down.... maybe there is something to it all.
This just left a stain on my brain.
I'm keeping an "open mind".... maybe those gullible people are onto something.!
Sheesh.
Internet forums also act as places where people can have their beliefs validated, no matter how ridiculous they might seem. And hey, it's written down.... maybe there is something to it all.
This just left a stain on my brain.
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huh im sure well get a reveal for "this" as soon as you track down your ohms law wheel
I would not say it makes a difference (raising cables off floor) but it might under some conditions --->
If you live in a house with a basement, the ac wiring, phone lines, cable etc are attached to the under side of the floor... along support boards for the flooring... as well as water pipes which may have power ground currents flowing. All these carry signals which are inches from your audio signal cables and cords. Noise pick-up perhaps is likely possible.
Concrete also has metal embedded which has ground currents/noise flowing thru them... inches from your cables.... again, raising them further from the floor/noise source Might have some audible delta to them.
A spectrum analyzer might be a good tool to see what is going on in some types of construction re to audio cables near 'noisy' floors.
THx-RNMarsh
If you live in a house with a basement, the ac wiring, phone lines, cable etc are attached to the under side of the floor... along support boards for the flooring... as well as water pipes which may have power ground currents flowing. All these carry signals which are inches from your audio signal cables and cords. Noise pick-up perhaps is likely possible.
Concrete also has metal embedded which has ground currents/noise flowing thru them... inches from your cables.... again, raising them further from the floor/noise source Might have some audible delta to them.
A spectrum analyzer might be a good tool to see what is going on in some types of construction re to audio cables near 'noisy' floors.
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However, I have done such measurements. For the more open minded or curious, fields from such nearby noise sources contain HF and RF as well as power lines freqs and the fields do radiate a considerable distance.... easily to audio cables a few inches above..... and if they get feedback into the PA output, depending on design, can cause issues in some peoples systems.
Building ground currents can be rather large and noisy as well and flowing under the floor inches away... I have measured these currents as well.
THx-RNMarsh
However, I have done such measurements. For the more open minded or curious, fields from such nearby noise sources contain HF and RF as well as power lines freqs and the fields do radiate a considerable distance.... easily to audio cables a few inches above..... and if they get feedback into the PA output, depending on design, can cause issues in some peoples systems.
Building ground currents can be rather large and noisy as well and flowing under the floor inches away... I have measured these currents as well.
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DIY ?
(Common is attachment to the bottom side of beams, with the floor thickness that makes 7'' distance or more. maybe in Bangkok)
If the difference can not be measured of cables lifted off the ground, would uninsulated cable burried below the ground be measured in any way?
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Why is proper insulation and shielding of cables not sufficient ? This I would absolutely not recommend at all, but in some thread I had posted a video of small headphone magnet attached to the moving magnet Phono cartridge without any noticeable difference in sound quality.
Regards.
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Why is proper insulation and shielding of cables not sufficient ? This I would absolutely not recommend at all, but in some thread I had posted a video of small headphone magnet attached to the moving magnet Phono cartridge without any noticeable difference in sound quality.
Regards.
Could be 7 inches.... some lines run along the beam and not across them and cable (CATV) and telephone go anywhere it needs to. Some are a real rats nest that I have seen. But 7 inches max is still close enough. In concrete, the rebar and steel beams can have all sorts of crap on them and maybe less than 7 inches below.
Pick your number but its there to varying degrees.
In my home in Calif/USA I dont have the problem at all because all my wiring is overhead above the ceiling and down the walls and not under the floor.
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In my home I do not measure a difference lifted off the ground either. However, I do keep high level and low level voltage signals separated from each other as much as reasonably possible. Most important if you use a LP system... low signals levels and high gain.
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