ralphpnj wrote: > Today's entry: > > http://www.shunyata.com/index.php/power-cables-footer/55-venom-series/402-venom-digital?ModPagespeed=noscript#!venom_digital_body2 > > The main page has some really good technical double talk on it along > with some nifty little graphs. It all sounds so scientific and > reasonable even though most of is complete nonsense. No wonder why so > many people without a decent understanding of the science and > engineering can be fooled. I always wonder about power related tweaks > such as power (mains) cables and the various power supply > treatments/re-generators since most audiophile components have well > designed and built power supplies. Power supplies that should be able to > handle "dirty" AC power and provide clean DC power at whatever voltage > is required since that is the basic function of a power supply aka > transformer.
Alas, they are not available in the USA. There is some basis for power conditioning. I have particularly crappy power from National Grid with ridiculous day to day voltage fluctuations and mostly old, crappy wiring. Last year I put in upgraded service, new breaker boxes with some additional capacity, and had the electrician run some new 20A circuits for my IT equipment room, living room and kitchen. Before I had the new circuit in the kitchen I couldn't use the microwave and have the overhead fluorescent lights on without popping the breaker. Primarily to protect against surges and brownouts, I use a variety of Furman pro audio line conditioners for home theater, stereo and my guitar and bass amps. Servers and other network devices are all on UPS units. I hope they do what they're supposed to :rolleyes: But I never understood how a passive 3' power cable was supposed to make magic happen between the wall and the device plugged into it. Unless the circuit is custom wired from the breaker box with magic electrical cable (not sure what the code is on that), with a magic outlet, then you're lucky if you have 12-3 romex in the wall. If you're not lucky (that would be most circuits in my old house) you find 14-3 romex or 12-2 bx armored cable. Hopefully you don't find aluminum! And that long length of copper cable is far from magic. It's received no cryogenic treatment and definitely doesn't have dual coincident concentric conductors (whatever the hell that means). So somehow the electrons are all forced to behave themselves and form perfect sine waves when they hit the magic piece of cable? Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD system, 15TB storage], LMS 7.7.3 -> Logitech Squeezebox Classic V.3 -> Cambridge Audio DacMagic -> NAD C160 -> 2 x NAD C272 -> Quad 22L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101564 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
