Kurt Wrote: > Plus it looks really cool! ;-) Make no mistake, I did not infer that it looks good.. It looks like crap unless you hide it in a case, or if you (or your wife) is a electronic geek and can appreciate the beauty of exposed circuitry. See attached pic of my setup with the PS.
It is open frame, so it is a PC board with a 3 sided alum box acting as heat sink. The other 3 sides of the box are open to the wind and any stray conductors like fingers that may get to close and make sparks fly! WAHOO!! I did it twice yesterday measuring it to fit a box before I realized my tape measure was shorting something on the PC board at the edge of the heat sink. It carried on with no problem. Yikes! Variable inputs are not auto sensing, you have to wire mains to the appropriate transformer inputs for the input voltage. Default wiring is for US 120V input. The problem with tweeking your system to a level where power supplies make an obvious difference is that many well-loved older recordings just don't live up to the potential of the system. You can suddenly hear deficiencies in the microphones and recorders as well as recording technique on the older stuff. I find I am buying a lot of new music to get a modern digital recording of stuff I listened to on LP, cassette and CD for years. Of course the older performances are often better than the new, but thankfully there is still lots of good music being made in all styles. I do wish Leonard Bernstein was just now at the peak of his career and was being recorded with modern equipment. Charlie Parker too for that matter!! Food for another thread maybe... Rich +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: DSC_4106.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=883| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20844 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
