What you can do, that would not cost you almost arm nothing is: 1. Get a a grounded outlet for your hifi ,if you are from uk this is free as I think it,s standard there.
2. Turn the powercord contact in the rigth direction, again if in uk this should be correct already. If you have shucko contacts (the rest of Eu) they fit both ways. Then you conect you component to nearest ungruonded outlet try with the contact in both directions, and use an indicator pen to measure when the field is smallest (same kind of pen you use to find cables in walls with). 3. Keep your signal cables away from power cables, if to close you can get hum and noise induced. This works by the inverse sqaure law so 2 cm away from you signal cable is four times better than 1 cm. *Now* with 1 & 2 , 3 dealt with you can worry abou the power cable. The only reasonable way the power cable can influence the sound is by proximity to your signalcables via electrical or magnetic field. 4. Therefore you powercable should have twisted pair conductors and be shielded. Note, the sheild wont do much unless it conected to gnd ( see 1). A whole lot of botique power cords don,t employ the whery simple measurer in 4. Which shows that electrical engineering don,t worry these snake oilers a lot. Or they may do this in thier 5000$ grand deluxe model, which gives a healty sales margin to the 1$ cost to implement it. "Special" copper or silver in powercords is pure snake oil. Fine braided mesh or foil screen is not. Just use common sense and you can use the leftover money to get more music :) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85602 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
