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Re: Housing market's gonna crash
I watched on the news where an elderly woman was given notice of sale on the house she was renting. The house had changed ownership 3 times. A corner lot, single family home that they have been renting for the last 52 years! WTF is wrong with people? Why in Gods name wouldn't you buy the house? It would have been paid off 22 years ago! Now she's worried about getting evicted.
audioluvr
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Re: Housing market's gonna crash
My house is fine at this time.
Now my investments are another story.
Now my investments are another story.
motorhead43026
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Re: 34uf cap
Are those all out of spec, normal to see them measure like this, or is the meter off?
Meter is good. The ones out of spec are the old black and red 34uf, like F1 pointed out. The 16uf are slightly out of spec also.
I got the DATs as well to play around with. The DATs gives you a lot more info but the handheld meter is super convenient.
DeRod
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Re: Noise.
Something I’ve always wondered … how do things like tube hiss or record (vinyl) surface noise factor into this?
You can’t eliminate those things if you listen to that kind of gear and they don’t take away from the enjoyment of listening (and may even have qualities that enhance it?), but yet, I have to credit the SnubWay for revealing more music and nuances in the grooves (and ones and zeros for my digital sources, too), than I’ve ever heard before.
I don't do LP's for a variety of reasons.
Tube hiss has been almost non-existent for me. Especially at the listening position. It doesn't seem to be a very big issue as I think it's innocuous enough to be a non-factor. That goes for proper functioning tubes, not tubes that are inherently noisy. If you have a noisy enough tube to upset the musical signal, time to find a different tube.
I run (3) pairs of tubes and a tube rectifier in my pre and occasionally (1) tube in the dac. All my tubes are 50's and early 60's and are very quiet. I can hear a very slight hiss if I put my ear right up to the tweeter.
H9
heiney9
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Re: Noise.
You don't even know you have it, until it's gone. But when it is gone, you really get pulled into the music and you hear much more of said music.
It is very hard to describe it but when you don't hear it, it becomes very obvious.
Tom
It is very hard to describe it but when you don't hear it, it becomes very obvious.
Tom
treitz3
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Re: Noise.
+1 on Puritan Audio power products. I have a PSM156 power conditioner, along with a few of their power cables as well. I posted about it here: https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/199413/puritan-psm156-power-conditioner#latest I definitely heard a difference in sound, and then quantitatively, I used an EMI meter for grins and giggles. Bottom line was: I was getting measurements directly from the wall outlets ranging from 135-975, depending on location in the house; but with the PSM156 in place, ALL measurements dropped below 20.
I went through Jaguar Audio. Boy, do they sell some really nice gear
I'm very curious to see what the Snub Way can do on top of what the PSM156 does.
I went through Jaguar Audio. Boy, do they sell some really nice gear
I'm very curious to see what the Snub Way can do on top of what the PSM156 does.
jdjohn
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