I think he may be a stand up comic -- he's quite good...
*blush*
mmerrill99, do you sell audio electronics and or related accessories?
"You'll never know" - No.6 says to No. 2
Thanks for your reply.. . . even moving the line cords around can affect the system.
I am familiar with the concept of ground loops, but the information about the frequency selective signal return paths is new to me.
I will have a good look at your gallery in the hope of learning more.
Do you mean something like a wooden box with dirt in it and a wire coming out? If so, I'm not sure if you are attempting humour or flagging up your need for a basic course in electricity.Rick Miller said:Companies like Nordost are providing products that connect the chassis of audio equipment to an artificial ground box. I think it affects the ground current issue like Jneutron has posted about above.
You left out the other attempt. Hint below.Do you mean something like a wooden box with dirt in it and a wire coming out? If so, I'm not sure if you are attempting humour or flagging up your need for a basic course in electricity.
Do you mean something like a wooden box with dirt in it and a wire coming out? If so, I'm not sure if you are attempting humour or flagging up your need for a basic course in electricity.
Far more sophisticated than that.
The QKORE is a parallel grounding device, which provides an artificial, “clean” earth for hifi audio systems using both an electrical and mechanical approach. This unique product combines Nordost’s patented Mono-Filament technology with purpose-built, Low-Voltage Attractor Plates (LVAPs), constructed with a proprietary metal alloy and a passive electronic circuit, in order to draw stray high frequency noise and voltage-generated magnetic fields to a manufactured earth point, leaving a clean reference behind. This passive system is contained in a mechanically tuned housing, and outfitted with gold-plated, WBT binding posts, which easily connect each component to an artificial ground. By providing for a balanced and very “clean” ground point, by-products of electrical balance imperfections between voltage and ground are no longer added to other pollutants, dramatically increasing high quality audio circuit performances.
Far more sophisticated than that.
I remember seeing the video of that thesaurus factory blowing up..
jn
You are determined to make him read it!
I can't help but get the feeling that Merrill and Jakob don't want us to dismiss even this stuff without providing our means of gaining evidence.
So much better than a pile of dirt!
Better at extracting money from the gullible and/or ignorant, that is. Now someone will pop up and demand that we prove by carefully controlled listening tests (with positive controls and trained listeners and careful statistics) that this box does not work as a useful electrical audio component.
It is a sad reflection on our modern education system that people are taken in by this alchemy.
Better at extracting money from the gullible and/or ignorant, that is. Now someone will pop up and demand that we prove by carefully controlled listening tests (with positive controls and trained listeners and careful statistics) that this box does not work as a useful electrical audio component.
It is a sad reflection on our modern education system that people are taken in by this alchemy.
I take it no one has tried the Nordost product, so you really don't know for sure if it works?
I haven't tried putting a picture of my pre-amp in the freezer either.
So much better than a pile of dirt!
I assume they put quotes around "clean" to disassociate themselves from the boxes of dirt.
I take it no one has tried the Nordost product, so you really don't know for sure if it works?
How best to explain..
Imagine you are a heart surgeon, one in need of heart surgery.
You go see a doc and ask him to detail the operation he is going to perform on you.
He proceeds to embellish his procedure with made up phrases using disjointed descriptions obviously taken from google hits from wacky websites. While the words by themselves have meaning, he has put them together in a way that makes absolutely no sense.
Now, as a practicing heart surgeon, what do you do? Let him open you up? I mean, you don't really know if his operation will work unless you try, right?
I personally have experience with grounding design and application for some very small and some very large machines that have a large range of currents, voltages, signals...
Let's just say, the descriptors given by the vendor have no meaning nor context with respect to what I do for a living, and I'm pretty good at what I do.
So, no, what they describe cannot work, and I'm pretty confident.
Jn
Reminds me of the opening part of Interstellar -
Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss signed a copy of their Nobel paper for me, I wonder what would happen if I put that in the freezer.
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