Re: need help choosing between line level cables

Serge Auckland wrote:

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

All very well but if you introduce a hum loop you can add transformers
THEN !
They're simply not NEEDED here !


> 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.

It will be.


> 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.

A turntable does not need to be physically GROUNDED. Just connect its
chassis to
the chassis of the amplifier with the cartridge preamp.

I haven't seen a TV with a ground conductor since just about forever btw.

Graham