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14th Jan 2019, 3:19 am | #21 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
I think they should definitely see a professional, but not in the sound industry
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14th Jan 2019, 6:05 am | #22 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
Its not April 1st but you have been audiophooled!
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14th Jan 2019, 11:21 am | #23 | |
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So unless you want to pay for the upgrade to all this, forget your socket! I'm happy to be wrong with you then. As are most people here! we're all happy though. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise!" |
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14th Jan 2019, 11:50 am | #24 | |
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If you believe that, you'll believe I'm Jesus! Whoever told you that a socket switch makes a difference has quite clearly been spending too long in a field watching a bull have a crap! Believe what you wish to, Rick. |
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14th Jan 2019, 11:54 am | #25 | |
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14th Jan 2019, 12:01 pm | #26 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
Now I can sell you something that will make the sound stage wider and sharper for minimal outlay.
And for a little more cash I can increase the depth of the bass. They are a little known item that was made many years ago, at the time no one realised that they were the definitive components for a valve amplifier. The white ones are for the bass notes, the blue and white ones are for treble enhancement. I can sell them to you for £140 each plus £23 for the white ones provided that you tell no one else, there are not too many left, I have the world stocks now. Without giving anything away I can tell you that the technology is known as "mixed dielectric". PM me with your order, if within the next 24 hours and you order at least one of each I will send you absolutely free a ceramic surge arrester which will remove harmful currents from your transformers. Is this of interest to you? Sam. |
14th Jan 2019, 12:11 pm | #27 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
O.K. - so change the 230-v. 3-pin wall socket to improve the sound from your hi-fi. But why stop there? Should you have the entire house rewired? What about the consumer unit? Is the electricity meter affecting the quality of the sound? What about the cabling in the street and the transformer at the sub-station? Etc., etc.
In short, provided that the wall socket is not defective, it will not have any effect on your hi-fi in any way whatsoever. Al. |
14th Jan 2019, 1:03 pm | #28 | |
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Take the above in a light-hearted way, Rick. P.S. I'm watching Graham carefully, he likes to close posts early, this post may go the same way. |
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14th Jan 2019, 1:11 pm | #29 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
The only thing I have found that makes a difference to a HiFi is the shape of the room.
If one speaker is close to a doorway and the other in a corner they sound very different. If you want to spend a lot of money you would have to build a special listening room. Nothing else regardless of price or claims will make an obvious improvement. |
14th Jan 2019, 1:43 pm | #30 | |
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We generally post a "Stay On Topic" SOT message first and hope it's heeded. Audiophoolery threads come up regularly and are generally allowed to run their course.
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14th Jan 2019, 1:55 pm | #31 | ||
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If it weren't for the mods, all hell would break loose on here. When it comes to audiophoolery, it's something to take the ps out of. I have yet to figure out how a socket can possibly affect sound quality, the phono connections would have more priority. There has been no mention yet of the mains being disconnected from the amp via the tramsformer, the mains ain't straight to the transistors. Rick. |
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14th Jan 2019, 1:59 pm | #32 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
Apparently having wire fuses instead of MCBs provides for a more detailed soundstage
And radial sockets, as close to the consumer unit as possible. For best fidelity, bypass the incoming mains fuse, as that weedy piece of wire dampens the highs |
14th Jan 2019, 2:06 pm | #33 |
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These threads help to stop people from buying stuff that is not going to do anything useful.
I am all for them. There is not even a need to put links to auction sites in because the descriptions of the parts involved are plenty good enough. If you want to see a lively forum with very relaxed moderation have a look at UK politics. http://www.politicsforum.co.uk They allow quite a bit of "street language" and only step in to deal with personal insults. |
14th Jan 2019, 2:08 pm | #34 | |
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It's crossed my mind before now to put in dedicated sockets before the RCD for the homeplugs, it may help the signal. Rick. |
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14th Jan 2019, 2:08 pm | #35 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
Surely a huge array of batteries is a better power source than the mains?
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14th Jan 2019, 2:14 pm | #36 |
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14th Jan 2019, 2:22 pm | #37 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
You would have a jolly heavy HiFi if you installed SLA batteries in it.
They would have to be big enough to run the set all day and charge up again over night. The switching would have to be on the DC side of the rectifier. |
14th Jan 2019, 2:24 pm | #38 |
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Supposedly (I think I heard this from someone on the sound on sound forums) some of this audiofoolery is actually required, not because on normal equipment it would make a difference but that the equipment is badly designed in such a way that certain products are needed.
Or it's the products that claim to make audio cleaner by ADDING! noise to the power lines. At the end of the day the equipment used in recoding studios will ultimately decide how good or bad sounding the piece of music will be and therefore in theory using anything "better"/more expensive than what was used to create the music is pointless. What comes out of the main studio monitors is how the mix engineer/artist(s) want(s) the music to sound and as such the only way to hear the music as the artist intended is to listen on the same setup, but as that is impractical/impossible no setup however expensive will ultimately get the "best" sound or sound as the engineer wanted from a given piece of music. |
14th Jan 2019, 2:26 pm | #39 |
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Re: Switched or Unswitched Sockets for HI-FI
But think how loud a boombox you could make with a setup like that Wouldn't be good on your shoulders though
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14th Jan 2019, 2:31 pm | #40 | |
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