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[Ivan Beaver]

For your reading enjoyment-and "maybe" better sound----- Or not-it depends

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/tip-of-the-month-ac-polarity/

[Keith Broughton]

a new musical landscape, with noticeably less glare and haze, smoother texture, quieter backgrounds, enhanced micro-dynamics, heightened low-level resolution, wider, deeper, better layered soundstaging, and more localized and better focused images.

WOW!
I gotta get me some of that

[Dave Pluke]

WOW!
I gotta get me some of that

Yeah man - I'm anxious to hear those micro-dynamics (in a hockey rink)!

Dave

[Ivan Beaver]

Of course the REAL problem is that sometimes the power company inverts the polarity of the AC line.

Or so I have read by "audiophools" who claim that their systems sound different on different days, because of this.

So you have to do this test each time you listen, in order to get "blacker blacks" in the sound.

[Keith Broughton]

Of course the REAL problem is that sometimes the power company inverts the polarity of the AC line.

Or so I have read by "audiophools" who claim that their systems sound different on different days, because of this.

So you have to do this test each time you listen, in order to get "blacker blacks" in the sound.

For blacker blacks you need Nano Tubes.

[Dave Garoutte]

Of course the REAL problem is that sometimes the power company inverts the polarity of the AC line.

Or so I have read by "audiophools" who claim that their systems sound different on different days, because of this.

So you have to do this test each time you listen, in order to get "blacker blacks" in the sound.

All you have to do is time when you turn it on to change the polarity.

[Geert Friedhof]

They lost me at the first 'interconnect'

[Geert Friedhof]

For absolute silence i would advice to use a 'bridge' plug. Just connect ground or neutral to the pole which measures 120V...

No more hum or other noises. Succes guaranteed.

[Dennis Wiggins]

Yeah man - I'm anxious to hear those micro-dynamics (in a hockey rink)!

Dave

Gotta HAVE that 'Shoosh'!

I can't believe TAS is still around.  I was a subscriber throughout to 70s, only to read up on what they were hearing that I wasn't.  Nothings's changed.

-D

[Jeff Robinson]

Of course the REAL problem is that sometimes the power company inverts the polarity of the AC line.

Or so I have read by "audiophools" who claim that their systems sound different on different days, because of this.

So you have to do this test each time you listen, in order to get "blacker blacks" in the sound.

I have wired a 5kVA transformer, pretty regular dual primary/dual secondary (240/480 x 120/240) to isolate and balance it's output. Wired for 240 in and out, fed with 120 to create 60 V (because it is a separately derived source I bonded (grounded) the midpoint of the secondary) lines of opposite polarity for the hot and neutral (bonding the secondary is a code requirement for OCP to work).

Really lowered the noise floor for both the audio and video of my home theater (blacker blacks, at least in the video).

Certainly impractical for any mobile system.

Jeff Robinson

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