Grounding boxes?

[Barry]

Connecting a spare length of interconnect connected only at ground, from a spare RCA socket running to an (Earth connected only) plug hooked up to the wall can sound better too.
Equipment dependant as per usual.

Similar thinking?

Someone here tried exactly that, and found (to their ears at least) it made no difference.

[walpurgis]

Someone here tried exactly that, and found (to their ears at least) it made no difference.

Yes. Somebody was going on about this a year or two back, so a made a lead to try it. As expected, it had no audible effect.

[Barry]

Yes. Somebody was going on about this a year or two back, so made a lead to try it. As expected, it had no audible effect.

I didn't want to 'name names'.

[Pharos]

Well Dennis why do you try that you may find illuminating.

You see this why forums are both delightful and full of people seeking entertainment outside the mundane lives full internet warriors won a mission to Mars via a vespa, spoiling for a fight



Your eduction is not incorrect just my typing skills and size of my hands are shall we say are not up to par today.

For the correct actual measured unit you are looking for is dBuA decibel micro amps for which I can only apologise for my typo and Sunday afternoon litter tray surfing.

Let is look at how this is arrived at first of all we take the transfer impedance at a given frequency we are looking at say 30Mhz (top of the Cisper 14 standard) the transfer impedance at this point would 18.09 which you would subtract from the given reading on your instrument which would in dBuV this would then deliver the correct value in dBuA

one observation I would like to make at least three of the devices tested have zero foils or connecting wires / cat littler or vampire poo inside.


Like cables this subject will cause division across the the great audio divide please do get on with the slanging match but jumping on people is very rude let them speak, then have your say cat piss try not withstanding

I haven't intended any 'slanging', but I was a bit surprised at the current/voltage mistake.

My education is not as up to date as many here, and so I am not familiar with many newer standards. But, I think my circuit theory is adequate and in tact.

I cannot really see how such a box can have any beneficial effect, given the equivalent cct. Any desire to receive RF would be better fulfilled if the device were not on the ground surely?

I didn't really connect a cable to the cat's litter box, just find the whole thing amusing. But if I heard a difference DB, what then.
It may be like the mysterious effect from my Nelson-Jones class A 10 +10 which produced a weirdly increased sense of 'air', and which someone said was TIM.

[Pharos]

Connecting a spare length of interconnect connected only at ground, from a spare RCA socket running to an (Earth connected only) plug hooked up to the wall can sound better too.
Equipment dependant as per usual.

Similar thinking?

I'd like to witness that.

[Pharos]

Maybe we should all go back to the days where all your hi-fi was in one nicely presented[ or not, depending on taste ] piece of furniture, where all the individual parts ie; Turntable,Tuner, and tape, whether 8 track or the new fangled Casette, were all on the same short ground or 0V, where there was lesser chance of these harmful frequencies [brought about by the use of seperates, joined together by fancy interconnects, and mains leads, cobbling everything together all at an average of 1mtr apart] to impede on our listening enjoyment of the latest trending artist of the day, yes, lets bring back,,,the Radiogram/Stereogram!
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That does raise the question of why studios don't seem to even observe such problems or 'solutions', and they often have many exposed leads on patch bays.

[Wakefield Turntables]

Interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqYdq0VgKg however, he doesn't really nail his colours to the mast one way or another. Frustrating !

[Pharos]

Trying to cancel waveforms at high frequencies presents massive problems with phasing because distances are so small, and even with one known waveform it would need fine tuning. But with wideband, attempts at it seem impossible to me.

[Folsom]

Be interesting to hear a bit more of your take on it Jeremy

I've posted a bit, but please ask any questions.

My basic premise is that if you like them use them, just don't try to fight the facts about what they are.

In audio why is everyone so obsessed with validating their hearing preference? Why isn't ok to just say, "I like it" ?

[Barry]

That is more or less what Andrew wrote in post 11.