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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Finding Correct AC Polarity for each Component by Amir on 2022-05-13 
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I think lower chassis voltage does not give better sound in all audio systems.I do not why but Some audio systems have better sound with higher chassis voltage . I lost my sound for more than six month only for adjusting ac polarity for lower chassis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #212: AC Polarity by DSH on 2008-12-27 
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Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #219: It's not in the AC polarity by DSH on 2008-12-29 
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[quote user="DSH"]Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis[/quote]I tried all the options on the polarity last day and it appeared this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Correct AC Polarity by Jim Aud by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-24 
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CORRECT AC POLARITY June 17, 2009 — puristaudio System set-up "I wanted to talk about a tweak that costs little or nothing to do, while having the potential of paying big dividends in terms of sonic improvement. It involves a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #967: AC polarity and Bybee crap. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-26 
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[quote user="steverino"] You have an unusual situation because you have so many dimmers (one type of device). [/quote]Well, the unusual situation is only as experimentation. In the house I bough pretty much etch light switch had a dimmer. I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #980: Responses on AC Polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:It does not take care of itself (what does?) and following the code doesn't get you there either…. Indeed, it is current leakage... but measured by the difference in potential. Clark, you a bit simplis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1474: The AC polarity problem by clarkjohnsen on 2015-11-23 
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This may have been mentioned already. . . if so, it escaped me. But here's the thing: Each component has its own AC chassis leakage characteristic. This can be measured, and lining every component up by the same polarity produces less noise & hum...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Finding Correct AC Polarity for each Component by Amir on 2022-05-13 
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I think lower chassis voltage does not give better sound in all audio systems.I do not why but Some audio systems have better sound with higher chassis voltage . I lost my sound for more than six month only for adjusting ac polarity for lower chassis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #969: Comply with electrical code by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-26 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] It does not take care of itself (what does?) and following the code doesn't get you there either…. Indeed, it is current leakage... but measured by the difference in potential. [/quote]Clark, you a bit simplistic understan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #980: Responses on AC Polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:It does not take care of itself (what does?) and following the code doesn't get you there either…. Indeed, it is current leakage... but measured by the difference in potential. Clark, you a bit simplis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #984: Violently disagree! by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] Folks, in case you care to learn the truth of the matter, AC Polarity is the subject of Chapter 7.5, pages 63-66. Its connection to acoustic polarity is established there too. That Romy should so boldly assert otherwise, l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #986: Onwards by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:Folks, in case you care to learn the truth of the matter, AC Polarity is the subject of Chapter 7.5, pages 63-66. Its connection to acoustic polarity is established there too. That Romy should so boldl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #987: OK, acoustic polarity is something that makes Universe to expend, are ... by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] Thanks for the lecture on material I've been closely acquainted with for thirty years. But please don't try to dodge the issue, viz., that you erroneously said AC plug polarity has "nothing to do with The Wood Effect". The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #993: Look at the record by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-29 
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"You mistakably took roundness but it was nothing but confidence and luck of my interest to contaminate the thread with another introduction of acoustic absolute phase." Folks, I invite you to look at the record. I introduced AC plug polarity and whe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #967: AC polarity and Bybee crap. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-26 
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[quote user="steverino"] You have an unusual situation because you have so many dimmers (one type of device). [/quote]Well, the unusual situation is only as experimentation. In the house I bough pretty much etch light switch had a dimmer. I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Correct AC Polarity by Jim Aud by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-24 
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CORRECT AC POLARITY June 17, 2009 — puristaudio System set-up "I wanted to talk about a tweak that costs little or nothing to do, while having the potential of paying big dividends in terms of sonic improvement. It involves a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #968: Clarifications by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-26 
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clarkjohnsen wrote: ...I hope y'all are attending to AC polarity alignm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: I've learned how to deal with it.... it's it by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-29 
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[quote user="AndySpalla"] Maybe that electrian was right? What do you think they do in recording studios? One thing is for sure, they don't just use one leg of power, especially since many will require both legs of power. [/quote] I do not think I a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #212: AC Polarity by DSH on 2008-12-27 
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Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #219: It's not in the AC polarity by DSH on 2008-12-29 
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[quote user="DSH"]Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis[/quote]I tried all the options on the polarity last day and it appeared this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #676: A possible explanation by clarkjohnsen on 2011-01-02 
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Audio equipment can be enormously sensitive to AC polarity. I do not mean correct "hot" and "neutral" in the outlet, rather which way it enters your electronics. (I and others have tried for decades to alert the world.) Worst, there is no standard an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #679: ??? by clarkjohnsen on 2011-01-02 
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 "It is way beyond the sophomoric solutions like... AC polarity."From that remark one may deduce that the writer has already tried this solution and found it wanting, or has not tried it but dismisses it out of hand, or doesn't know what he's talking...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #791: I'll have to ponder this by Lx_ on 2011-03-09 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Possibly that you are right but it might be something else. My last year unit did inject back to power line a LOT of dirt. I just measured my new fixed unit and I was VERY surprised the it out back to the wall significantly...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1088: Plug polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2013-01-24 
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After reading this thread I can't help but wonder whether y'all are familiar with the concept of AC polarity. The topic has been addressed in numerous locations (most thoroughly in Bound for Sound), but perhaps not recently. In short, which way the p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1474: The AC polarity problem by clarkjohnsen on 2015-11-23 
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This may have been mentioned already. . . if so, it escaped me. But here's the thing: Each component has its own AC chassis leakage characteristic. This can be measured, and lining every component up by the same polarity produces less noise & hum...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1651: Not the Wood Effect by clarkjohnsen on 2018-09-02 
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But thanks for the accolade.The AC plug polarity situation differs from sonic acoustic polarity, although it *is* treated in my book entitled The Wood Effect. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #982: Further responses by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:Then you haven't looked close enough. Or perhaps the equipment that I used was not made by clueless people?CJ I believe one of the points you keep harping on is that most people are clueless. So... as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1689: Common mode noise by JOHNR on 2019-08-26 
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One of the things that I picked up in this thread is the fact that if you use 2 PSUs in series, the sound degrades.This is typical of one unit generating common mode noise and this adds to that produced by the second unit.Even if you run them in para...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Transient effect and DSETs by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-30 
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Here is another advantage of multisampling and DSET in particularly. There are many moments in amp that in one or another degree affects transients.The capacitive coupling for instance works fine but as long the amp sits in class A1. As soon amp hit ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #965: Oh and while you're at it... by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-26 
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...I hope y'all are attending to AC polarity alignment, else many of your decisions may be erroneous. I've written so much about this perfectly audible phenomenon that I don't feel like doing it any more, so I point you to an excellent comprehensive ...
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