It's the shirt-lifters you need to watch out for!:eyebrows:
Marco.
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It's the shirt-lifters you need to watch out for!:eyebrows:
Marco.
You can use old corks (real Cork, not the imitation!) as well.
You can use old corks (real Cork, not the imitation!) as well.
Then you could get serious and do THIS.......
http://jeffsplace.me/wordpress/?p=2892
Crikey :eek:
When I redecorated the lounge and before we had a new carpet fitted, I had a dedicated ring main installed solely for the audio gear. Whilst the floor boards were up, I took the opportunity to run some balanced line interconnects from my sources/preamp etc. to where the speakers sit and their monoblock poweramps located just behind them.
No idea if it has improved the sound (after all, the change in carpet could make just as much a difference), but the 'no cable' looks a lot neater.
Nothing better than a simple, easy and cheap tweak. More money to spend on cables and CD's.
Could be my eyes, but Gazjam's neat hook arrangement looks like it's on the skirting board, If so, off the carpet but against (in effect) the wall. My speaker cables are under the concrete floor (all 11 metres of them) in conduits, so I s'pose they're UNDER the carpet and nowhere near walls. In previous houses I've been blessed with suspended floors when it's easy to hide!
BARRY, Was the dedicated ring main, whereas obviously an advance on sharing the domestic ring, a calculated plan, as opposed to a dedicated radial or more? Maybe the system/room ergonomics didn't justify going full hog, as it were, as everybody's situation is different.
I used to extol the benefits of full dedication when I had Naim kit, but later, as I gradually changed over to bottled stuff, developed a totally unsubstantiated theory that whereas kit with toroidal trannies can and frequently does benefit by being taken off the domestic mains supply (as far as feasible), the trannies mostly (?) found in valved kit seemed not to derive the same improvement. Could be wrong here, and I'm way past experimenting!
I've now got 8 x 6mm or 10mm T & E s in a convoluted 12 metre route to their own c.u. which are, if my theory holds water, largely redundant except for sheer convenience and debatable tidyness. They ain't eatin' anything, though, and the pain of installation is not a faded memory. :)
Hi Mike,
I don't believe it is necessary to use a dedicated 'radial' system over a dedicated 'ring'. My audio-only ring comprises 16 sockets available not only for my speakers (like you I use electrostatic speakers), but for the permanent equipment (turntables, phonostages, CD player, tuner, preamp etc.) as well a few spare outlets for occasionally used items such as tape decks etc.
The ring is protected by a separate Hager 32A RCCB connected to the meter via a 'Henley block'.
I can understand the reasoning behind using a radial system, but IMO it is only of help in reducing the the noise fed back into the mains supply generated by SMPSs used within your own audio system. In my case, none of the power supplies used are SMPSs.