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In any and all modern electrical units and equipment, both the Hot and Neutral wires are well insulated from the chassis. In most equipment the chassis is directly connected to the Safety Ground/Protective Earth (EGC/PE). Other units have passed special safety tests and do not require this...

It's not main's current that's flowing the wrong way, after all this current reverses itself 100 or 120 times per second. What it is - is on most equipment, there is a small amount of leakage current from the unit's power supply AC primary to the chassis. While this current is very small...

For any speaker whose impedance drops to 1 Ohm at 20KHz, I would think that about 10 feet should be the limit. This speaker cable should have low self-inductance like a star-quad construction. For an XLR cable, going from 3 feet to 100 feet should and about $100 to the cost of the cable.

I think that I would go with 70 foot XLR balanced interconnects and shorter speaker cables. Modern equipment can deal with much longer balanced interconnects.

Being dipole speakers, that sort of suggests that they were designed for encoded logic surround systems. "Encoded logic surround systems" have very diffused spatial locations of the surround speakers. Also wall mounted dipole speakers in one sense don't have a polarity. Note that the newer...

It sure doesn't make the comments correct! No, really the thread covers why the co-ax length idea is incorrect.

While Steve Nugent is an interesting person, his writings are somewhere between a non-sequitur and a oxymoron. On his web-page http://www.empiricalaudio.com/ he has several interesting papers. In his writings, he will have a good technical discussion in one paragraph. The next paragraph will...

That article is sort of like writing: If one plus one equals two then blue is a good color.

I think that we need to put our hip boots on! Maybe 3/4's of the ideas presented as facts are wrong.

Basically, unbalanced analog audio interconnects are all the same. But for long interconnects (like sub-woofer sometimes are) chose an interconnect with a heavy braided shield.

Really? Why? I second that. It's the question of the day.

What is the problem with using a heaver cord?

For tons of info on TV's and Home Theater, try the very active AVS Forum: http://www.avsforum.com/

The 5 step voltage conversion process is in the service manual.

Silly, yes. Stupid, yes. Bargain, no.

On "transparent" sounding, Bruno Putzeys writes: Originally Posted by ****** So you don't experience some of the opposite; That bad recordings start to sound even harsher and more grainy due to more transparency? That sort of thing commonly happens on replay systems which try to "sound...

The magnetic shielding was for people with the old style "CRT" video monitors or TV's. While Cathode Ray Tube monitors have a great picture, it's been years since many were manufactured.

I have the instructions for TFM-25 which are probably the same. PM me. Or there are maybe two Carver user groups on the web, that may have local members.

Kal Rubinson "Music in the Round" just wrote on this subject (mostly the OmniMic) in the November 2011 issue of Stereophile.

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