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I can have the speaker volumes all maxed, and not a sound, not even the smallest hiss. Crapped myself pushing play to check they were on.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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My monitor (just to cut down on wall plugs..)
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I am of the opinion that in UK at least, our mains supply is so clean and stable (fekkin SHOULD be at the price!) that power "conditioners" are not needed (and some of the 'diss' board types can actually make earth lines 'dirtier') .
If indeed it can be proved that the conditioner cured the hiss I would look for a fault or design defect in the rest of the signal chain. Monitors are the most likely suspect.
Dave.
Unless you go for high end balanced power options they are no better than a power strip in almost all cases.
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Some musicians are arriving at the same conclusions but from a different direction. Guitar players use distortion but need to be in control of the distortion rather than put up with the (probably) unneeded additional distortions supplied with their electric power.
Basically we listen to music. A guitar player listens to the sound he is creating. If there is a problem, it becomes a choice between ignoring it or fixing it.
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Until someone can explain why the mile or more of cable from the substation (of bog S 99.9% Copper) is somehow 'perfect' and it is only the last 2 mtrs or so that dramatically improves the sound I shall continue to call the beardy tweaks "'king audiophool idiots".
Dave.
In and before the 1970s, hi-fi was simple. Buy a few boxes and connect them up and you get sound. Around the mid 1970s, the hi-fi press carried infrequent reports of Japanese enthusiasists experiments with different types of wires to improve the sound from their systems. Most felt this was impossible and the reports were treated as humourous and not taken too seriously.
Suddenly Naim Audio announced that the usage of Litz wires as speaker cables, blew up the output transistors in their power amps. Naim Audio brought out its own speaker cable which the company claimed did not harm its amps.
Those of us who think about these things wondered that if a cable could damage an amplifier, could a cable improve the sound of an amplifier. Experiments showed that this is actually the case. Why or how hardly matters if the audio result is better. Naim Audio subsequently introduced a superior speaker cable to the market, an action that suggested the cables did more than carry the speaker current.
That is where we are at at the moment. Some refuse point blank to think that cables affect what we hear. Others are totally convinced they do. On this forum a lot of very highly respected members favour the former camp. And very vocally too. Which is a pity as such dissenting comments might prevent others from checking for themselves.
So the answer to your question Sir, is that I don't know why. I do know that in my system it does. I am not too concerned how it does, I am too tied up enjoying the music to even care.
But even the best system with the best cables cannot do anything about or improve the sound of low or mid bitrate music files. Music from Spotify etc is only a pale shadow of a CD or 12" LP. But that is a subject for another day.
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I got the power conditioner to cut down on the amount of plugs being used. Seems like a good extension lead to have.
The hiss went, and I'm happy. No idea if it was coincidence etc, but also don't care... it's gone woo!
I do feel I can hear some better high harmonics, most probably don't to some crystal lattice structure. ahem.
Preventing others from wasting vast sums of money on mains cables that can be shown both theoretically and in practice to make no audible difference is most certainly not "a pity".
You even loaned a cable to some people here - they found it made no difference but you carry on calling them liars.
There are obvious differences between a power conditioner and a cable. You have claimed to be an electrician so you ought to understand that.
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