mkgus
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| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Good stuff, atmasphere, thanks for posting. One thing I would like to explore is whether or not the power cable has to be at the amplifier or could it be at the breaker box. I hypothesize that it would have a greater effect at the amp. | |
| Simple and Effective Upgrade for Wall Wart Power Supplies @docknow, thanks for the heads up on Part 2. Didn’t know about that one.rollin and fusion, thanks for the input on power supply upgrades. Much appreciated. | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound “...plugging their wall wart DIRECTLY into the outlet.”The adapter goes from IEC to a standard NEMA electrical outlet style plug. | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound On another note, I recently bought some adapters and put a high quality power cable upstream of the wall wart power supply that serves my DAC. Wow! The improvement in sound was very impressive. Much more slam and dynamics. I recommend anyone to tr... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Single strand? I haven’t. My power cables use solid core but with multiple runs of different gauges. I’ve heard people say that large gauge power cable are more bass heavy and small gauge more treble heavy and that the best results come from a pow... | |
| Simple and Effective Upgrade for Wall Wart Power Supplies @sleepwalker65, I’m interesting in trying something like that someday. Where do you go to find decent plans? | |
| Simple and Effective Upgrade for Wall Wart Power Supplies Thanks for the tip. So you basically daisychained the C7 power cord with the existing wall wart using various adapters?Exactly. It goes: Wall Outlet -> Power Cable -> Adapters -> Wall Wart -> DAC. Whatver magical properties a power cab... | |
| Simple and Effective Upgrade for Wall Wart Power Supplies Bumping for visibility since I posted late last night. Has anyone tried this same setup? Is this a common thing to do? | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound So why are you hung up on why power cords make a difference? I’m just generally curious what is going on scientifically speaking. Furthermore, once we understand the phenomena then we can design and tweak to produce the results we want. For exampl... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound OP You installed the upgraded power cable on your CD player and you heard an improvement in SQ. You did not say you "I think I heard" or "its my opinion that it sounded better". It sounded better. Period.Yeah, it wasn’t subtle at all and I wasn’t ... | |
| Rehashing the Playstation 1 topic - higher voltage possible? Just came across this thread. It’s been 2 years and no replies. In case you’re still looking for suggestions, I recommend the FX Audio Tube-01 6J1 tube pre-amp. It’ll boost your voltage up to where you need it and give you some tube sound for a ve... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound What do you mean by conditioning? | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Whoa! What? I did not know there were high, medium and low frequencies traveling through the power cord. I was under the impression it was current and voltage, alternating at 60 Hz.That’s why we are having the conversation. Maybe I’m not understan... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Going off of geoff’s list and adding some of the other views expressed here, here are SOME of the hypotheses for how a power cable COULD affect sound:1. Purity of conductors 2. Conductivity of conductors3. Dielectric properties of insulation4. Sol... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound @prof No offense taken. It’s probably a good thing to be reminded here and there of the subjective and sometimes fallable nature of human perception. Perhaps I was being overly sensitive, but I interpreted your remarks on human listening error as ... |