First came the £150 fuse, then the £300 cartridge isolator, now...

Unread post by **karatestu** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:15 am

Tacoma, Washington. It collapsed as it couldn't handle the bass coming from Lindsay T's wardrobe sized speakers

Geoff.R.G · Unread post by **Geoff.R.G** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:31 am

CN211276 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:13 am Call me thick, but I have not figured out where it fits.

The bridges; Brooklyn Bridge or Tacoma Narrows
The shorting plug; put one in each unused input on your pre-amp to reduce noise. Where the noise is going is anybody's guess as the socket isn't connected to anything anyway unless you select it.

CN211276 · Unread post by **CN211276** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:38 pm

Geoff.R.G wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:31 am The shorting plug; put one in each unused input on your pre-amp to reduce noise. Where the noise is going is anybody's guess as the socket isn't connected to anything anyway unless you select it.

Seems a bit similar to a grounding box.

I use rubber plugs which cost peanuts.

Unread post by **savvypaul** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:59 pm

When the SR fuse nonsense kicked off, I remarked that the previous 'king of the bling', Russ Andrews, must have been feeling a little crestfallen.

But, now, there is 'Ultra Fuse'...

slinger · Unread post by **slinger** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:42 pm

Who actually needs a 13A fuse on a piece of hi-fi equipment, unless it's a power amp with an absolutely supermassive transformer? Even then a 5A would probably cover it. Surely 13A fuses are overkill for single components like CD players, amps, preamps, etc.?

Now explain why I'm being stupid. It's OK, I'm used to it.

Daniel Quinn · Unread post by **Daniel Quinn** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:46 pm

Every other opinion in that magazine is tainted.

Alfi · Unread post by **Alfi** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:35 pm

Daniel Quinn wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:46 pm Every other opinion in that magazine is tainted.

But "that magazine" is great entertainment value especially for those of us with NVA amps etc.

Alfi.

Geoff.R.G · Unread post by **Geoff.R.G** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:59 am

CN211276 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:38 pm
Geoff.R.G wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:31 am The shorting plug; put one in each unused input on your pre-amp to reduce noise. Where the noise is going is anybody's guess as the socket isn't connected to anything anyway unless you select it.
Seems a bit similar to a grounding box. I use rubber plugs which cost peanuts.

Not really, shorting plugs have their uses in, for example, aircraft audio integration systems where the standard fit is 2 VHF, 2 VOR, 2 ADF, 2 DME and 2 Sat Com but options are offered. One standard option will be three VHF, the system on an aircraft equipped with only two VHF systems will have a shorting link installed across the VHF 3 audio input to prevent noise in the pilot's headset. The big difference between an audio integration system and a Hi-Fi system is that the former is a mixer, the user can listen to all the inputs at once should he/she so desire. In a Hi-Fi system one can only listen to one input at a time. Thus, in Hi-Fi a shorting plug serves no useful purpose.

First came the £150 fuse, then the £300 cartridge isolator, now...

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