You got me curious, mine just tested at 124.5v
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Sal, living in Florida we always get more of everything. It is the way of life for us conservatives.....
Hooray Florida!
Thanks, I hadn't realised it was up to 125 V nowadays.
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More hurricanes?Sal, living in Florida we always get more of everything. It is the way of life for us conservatives.....
On occasion, the other 99.9% of the time we have warmth and sunshine.
Got your snow blower tuned and gassed up yet? winters coming!
Two season FL: hot humid, and warm and humid.On occasion, the other 99.9% of the time we have warmth and sunshine.
Got your snow blower tuned and gassed up yet? winters coming!
Be my guest. LOLI lived south of Miami in the '70s. I'd rather have below-freezing weather and snow any day of the week.
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What happens if you guys ask random Americans on the street what car engine that is?I thought we were discussing a SS amp here, not a tube amp?
Chinese knockoff of the Jaguar XK Engine perhaps.
Couldn't say, I do know it's a DOC carburetor'd (Weber's?) inline 6 cylinder.
If that's a Jag engine bay, a better engine swap choice would be a GM-Chevrolet LS V8
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A few months ago, a series of posts ridiculed Shunyata's highest-end Ethernet cables. I just read those posts, and I want to offer my perspective about them. Roughly three months ago, I purchased my "end game" streamer/DAC. As a consequence, I also decided to look at the possibility of a "better" alternative to my $39 Audioquest Pearl Ethernet cable to connect this new streamer/DAC to my 24-port Ethernet switch. Over the course of a week, I tried Audioquest Cinnamon ($130), DH Labs SilverSonic Reunion ($220), Shunyata Theta ($500), and Shunyata Sigma ($1,200) Ethernet cables. Now, I live on a fixed income budget, with splurges for audio gear funded by a rather depleted special savings account. Accordingly, my optimal goal was to prove to myself that there wasn't any performance difference among these cables and that, therefore, my Audioquest Pearl Ethernet cable was just fine. What I discovered only partially realized that hope. I could not tell any difference among the Cinnamon, Reunion, and Theta cables, nor could my wife. However, this was not at all the case with the Shunyata Sigma Ethernet cable. Streamed music simply sounded better -- more musical, slightly clearer, more detailed, etc. Let me point out that this Sigma cable is unusual in that it incorporates two "common-mode noise" filters within the cable; all the other Ethernet cables I tried lacked such filters, and, in fact, that is true for nearly all Ethernet cables. Shunyata's filters really do work. Moreover, I have to say that this was a complete -- and very welcome -- after-the-fact surprise for me, which is why I am making this posting.
It bothers me the way so many postings on about expensive cables are so dismissively negative without first explaining how they reached their conclusions. In doing my evaluation, I selected seven different tracks. For each track, I had previously identified certain elements (and their times) I wanted to hear critically and, after playing each one to three times (as needed), I jotted down pertinent notes on my spreadsheet. I also had three tracks I played throughout (rather than "snippets") in order to react to them as music. This process, when completed, made it easy for me to determine the effective of each cable. Moreover, as a confirmation of my original conclusion, the following day I was subjected to a blind test of the Shunyata Theta Ethernet cable vs the Shunyata Sigma Ethernet cable. Differentiating between the two of them was no challenge.
For the record, I am not affiliated in any way with Shunyata. I have lots of other cables which are not Shunyatas (Blue Jeans, Audioquest, etc.) and, in particular, the analog cables from my DAC to my preamp are made by DH Labs. I also want to say that the performance benefit I got from the Sigma cable could be peculiar to my system. Indeed, perhaps my network switch has a noise issue that the filters in this Sigma cable addressed. I don't know. All I can conclude is that the Shunyata Sigma Ethernet cable sure worked for me a lot better than any of the others I tried. And now, three months later, I continue to be delighted with how good digital-sourced music sounds.
It bothers me the way so many postings on about expensive cables are so dismissively negative without first explaining how they reached their conclusions. In doing my evaluation, I selected seven different tracks. For each track, I had previously identified certain elements (and their times) I wanted to hear critically and, after playing each one to three times (as needed), I jotted down pertinent notes on my spreadsheet. I also had three tracks I played throughout (rather than "snippets") in order to react to them as music. This process, when completed, made it easy for me to determine the effective of each cable. Moreover, as a confirmation of my original conclusion, the following day I was subjected to a blind test of the Shunyata Theta Ethernet cable vs the Shunyata Sigma Ethernet cable. Differentiating between the two of them was no challenge.
For the record, I am not affiliated in any way with Shunyata. I have lots of other cables which are not Shunyatas (Blue Jeans, Audioquest, etc.) and, in particular, the analog cables from my DAC to my preamp are made by DH Labs. I also want to say that the performance benefit I got from the Sigma cable could be peculiar to my system. Indeed, perhaps my network switch has a noise issue that the filters in this Sigma cable addressed. I don't know. All I can conclude is that the Shunyata Sigma Ethernet cable sure worked for me a lot better than any of the others I tried. And now, three months later, I continue to be delighted with how good digital-sourced music sounds.
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Basic knowledge about electronics and neuroscience.
The chance of the effects, you are describing, being caused by actual physics is absolutely infinitesimal, and the risk of it being caused by confirmation bias is humongous.
If cables behaved in the semiconductor like ways that these charlatan companies would like you to believe, then nothing in world of electronics would ever be able to function.
Trust me, there's no audible difference between two competently built ethernet cables.
They are balanced digital connetions, and are usually also transformer isolated by default. There's just no way in hell they can make that kind of difference.
You've been duped into purchasing expensive cables and then the bias in your mind is tricking you to think they are better.
It's that plain.
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It sure would be fascinating to be able to peek into the counterfactual world in which blind testing had become the basis for audio reviews in the high end.
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I heard similar type of sonic changes in my system when I had three Shunyata AC cables to evaluate years ago.
But being aware of the nature of human bias, I had an engineer member of the family help me blind test between the Shunyata cables and the standard official $15 AC cable.
Result: once I didn’t know which cable I was “ listening to” the Sonic differences I thought I heard vanished. There was nothing to distinguish between them.
Blind tests can be humbling if you are willing to accept the lesson they give
Yes we do. Here at home in SE FL I show 124 in the mornings and 123.5 most of the day (my Decware Zen Line Conditioner has a power display). FPL are very responsive to our concerns, they sent an engineer to test the transformers when I complained about noise. The engineer loves music and was telling me about his system!Sal, living in Florida we always get more of everything. It is the way of life for us conservatives.....
NFPA 70, NEC 210.6: In dwelling units and guest rooms or suites of hotels, motels, and similar occupancies, the voltage shall not exceed 120 volts, nominal, between conductors that supply the terminals of the following:
(1) Luminaires (lighting fixtures)
(2) Cord-and-plug-connected loads 1440 volt-amperes, nominal, or less or less than 1/4 hp.
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Because they are worthy of ridicule, and they sucked a bunch of money out of your pocket with a good story.
They rely on the fact that most people have no idea how much natural human bias makes uncontrolled subjective listening sessions so error prone.
For me this is the most annoying part of the Snake Oil business. Some like to argue that no harm is done if the buyer gets enjoyment from the product and believe it was money well spent. It may be true for some that the money spent won't make a lick of difference but the fact that you choose to mention your financial situation leads me to think it may make a difference to you. I hope I'm wrong.
