Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles
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#2Gizmodo’s source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have...
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#3When I'm playing music on my stereo from my PC through USB, turning off the lights on my bathroom on the other side of the wall will momentarily kill my USB driver and as a result Spotify stops working.
Electromagnetic interference is no joke.
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#4I wonder if a battery-inverter setup would give cleaner power for less money? For less than $40K you can buy a couple powerwalls along with a top-rate inverter/charger.
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#5I wonder if a battery-inverter setup would give cleaner power for less money? For less than $40K you can buy a couple powerwalls along with a top-rate inverter/charger.
Or, with less insanity, DC powered equipment running from batteries.
Which is still pretty insane. A good quality PSU should be able to tolerate quite a lot of noise. And power conditioners are already a thing.
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#7At what point does it stop being a hobby and turn into mental illness?
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#8At what point does it stop being a hobby and turn into mental illness?
“The difference between a collector and a hoarder is a display case.” -John Hodgman
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#9$100k in equipment, but I bet none of that went to an oscilloscope to actually quantify the problems they are imagining.
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#10I wonder if a battery-inverter setup would give cleaner power for less money? For less than $40K you can buy a couple powerwalls along with a top-rate inverter/charger.
That’s a double-conversion UPS: AC to DC, a small siphon for batteries and control hardware, and then DC to AC out.
I imagine an audiophile would say that the sine wave generated by such a setup wouldn’t be smooth enough. They’d want something like a double-rotary converter, so that a spinning generator is making the final sine wave.