cliveb;578540 Wrote: > My guess is that they could come from a wide variety of places that we > routinely ignore. I have no figures to back up my suspicions. It's just > that over many years I have consistently found that balanced connections > sound cleaner than unbalanced, even using short cables. > > > I think it's dangerous to assume that grounding is foolproof. Ground > planes on circuit boards do not have zero resistance, and even star > earthing isn't going to get every ground to precisely the same > potential. Mains earths are rarely perfect. > > People around here obsess over ludicrously tiny amounts of jitter and > minuscule resolution loss through digital attenuation, but I would be > very surprised if the kind of inaccuracies caused by imperfect > grounding weren't very significantly greater.
Don't disagree. All my stuff is unbalanced but all the casework grounds are tied via a star-earth arrangement into an external earth spike. I can't measure any resistance to earth with a reasonably accurate meter. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82122 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
