Surprised nobody yet has mentioned, that using a balanced connection can eliminate the audibility of a ground loop between components.
Remember that a ground loop doesn't always contribute a 50/60Hz hum, but can also produce the effect that some describe as a "veil" over the sound, i.e. limiting of the frequency extremes and reduction of overall sound clarity and micro detail. Incidentally, the same effect can occur from external EM field noise picked up by interconnects, even over distances as short as approx. 0.5m in a noisy environment - but of course even more so with longer distances and greater resulting exposures. This makes the noise-rejecting ability of balanced connections equally, but separately, relevant. -- NewBuyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36774 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
