Re: need help choosing between line level cables

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Serge Auckland wrote:
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>> To paraphrase I think, John Linsley Hood, you can always cut down on 
>> safety
>> margins if you have complete control over circumstances.
>
> There is NOTHING unsafe about Class II equipment. In fact it has to be
> intrinsicly SAFER than earthed kit.
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>
>> In your case, anyone making an equipment change at some stage in the 
>> future
>> could set up a
>> hum-loop.
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> COULD ? Why WOULD they.
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> You're inventing fictional problems again.
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> Graham
>

Not so much a case of inventing fictitional problems, just good
engineering 
practice. Whenever I implement any solution to a problem, I try and think
of 
what could possibly go wrong in the future and try to plan for it. If
you're 
sure there won't be any future changes, and you're only trying to avoid
hum 
loops, then your solution is probably fine. That, by the way, is what I 
meant in paraphrasing J L-H. I wasn't suggesting your solution is unsafe, 
just that if you solve a problem in the minimum way possible, you
sacrifice 
the flexibility of a better solution.

Interesting that your AV equipment is all ungrounded. Mine isn't. Some
items 
are ungrounded - DTTV box, DVD player, DVD recorder, but the main TV is 
grounded, my CD player, pre-amp, and active 'speakers are all grounded. 
Turntables are all grounded. It's a mixture, so your solution isn't 
generally applicable.

S.

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