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AnthonyI said:
That's interesting, I'll have to keep it in mind. Of course now that you've tossed out a possible solution it's going to make me crazy, lol.
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Hahaha! That’s the nature of the hobby...

One of the attachments has a spade lug. They advertise it as for going around a D.C. input Jack but it fits perfectly around my turntables ground lug. The out is an iec that you can connect to any old grounded iec cable to ground to a spare outlet on your power conditioner. It worked for me but yeah as we know, no two ground issues ever appear to be the same...
 
Joe Mac said:
Hahaha! That’s the nature of the hobby...

One of the attachments has a spade lug. They advertise it as for going around a D.C. input Jack but it fits perfectly around my turntables ground lug. The out is an iec that you can connect to any old grounded iec cable to ground to a spare outlet on your power conditioner. It worked for me but yeah as we know, no two ground issues ever appear to be the same...
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It's a nice little kit, I'll be honest. With things like this you do spend more time chasing your tail more than anything. I'm still poking around for answers, again, the only saving grace is that it's not taking away from my "audible enjoyment".

Honestly, the one thing I'm still trying to get answers to is about the NAD. To my surprise while tucking everything back into place last night I noticed that the NAD has a C17 power cable, it doesn't have the 3rd blade/post and in looking back, the phono module of old does have a ground lug so now I'm wondering if the NAD is grounded and or needs to be grounded AND if that might be part of the problem.

Too many questions, not enough answers :)
 
AnthonyI said:
It's a nice little kit, I'll be honest. With things like this you do spend more time chasing your tail more than anything. I'm still poking around for answers, again, the only saving grace is that it's not taking away from my "audible enjoyment".

Honestly, the one thing I'm still trying to get answers to is about the NAD. To my surprise while tucking everything back into place last night I noticed that the NAD has a C17 power cable, it doesn't have the 3rd blade/post and in looking back, the phono module of old does have a ground lug so now I'm wondering if the NAD is grounded and or needs to be grounded AND if that might be part of the problem.

Too many questions, not enough answers :)
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Yeah I was convinced it was the PS Audio or the phono stage causing the hum and that's why I bought the groundhog, because it also has an RCA attachment that I could use to ground their chassises from a spare RCA port. As it turns out it was the turntable, or maybe the cheap ground wire I was using, so the spade attachment in the kit sorted it for me!
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah I was convinced it was the PS Audio or the phono stage causing the hum and that's why I bought the groundhog, because it also has an RCA attachment that I could use to ground their chassises from a spare RCA port. As it turns out it was the turntable, or maybe the cheap ground wire I was using, so the spade attachment in the kit sorted it for me!
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Damn you @Joe Mac!!!

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Crabbers said:
Oh the ones I posted are way to expensive for me as well...do those come with integrated turntable/speakers though @Hollywood
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I’d not trust integrated speakers/turntables supplied by a third party company unless I had spec’d them myself. Those consoles you pay for the fact it’s all in one over the quality of the gear. I’d spend £7-7.5k on a miles better system and get a local carpenter to build me a console that fitted that gear if that’s the look I was determined to get.
 
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Crabbers said:
This keeps popping up...these look sexy as hell but what do they sound like?
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When it comes to aesthetics, these are hard to beat. This is actually becoming a bit of trend as a few companies do this now, and I've seen local furniture refurbishers taking this on as well.

It likely sounds much better than most people's home BT speakers and sound bars. If they loaded them with something like Klipsch Hersay IIIs and you had low seating, these could actually sound pretty solid.
But these are always style first pieces. There will always be the limitations of physics where even if you get the TT well isolated, you still have the speakers close together, jammed up against the wall. This would likely be a great system for room filling background sound, but I imagine if you just spent probably under $5K for the components inside but in a normal detached stereo it would probably trounce this from an audio perspective.

But setting a vibe with dinner and cocktails, this is the best solution for that.
 
displayname said:
When it comes to aesthetics, these are hard to beat. This is actually becoming a bit of trend as a few companies do this now, and I've seen local furniture refurbishers taking this on as well.

It likely sounds much better than most people's home BT speakers and sound bars. If they loaded them with something like Klipsch Hersay IIIs and you had low seating, these could actually sound pretty solid.
But these are always style first pieces. There will always be the limitations of physics where even if you get the TT well isolated, you still have the speakers close together, jammed up against the wall. This would likely be a great system for room filling background sound, but I imagine if you just spent probably under $5K for the components inside but in a normal detached stereo it would probably trounce this from an audio perspective.

But setting a vibe with dinner and cocktails, this is the best solution for that.
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Exactly, these are more conversational pieces. Kind of like what the wife wanted me to go for initially. Luckily we settled on the hifi bambbo stand.
 
Hollywood said:
Exactly, these are more conversational pieces. Kind of like what the wife wanted me to go for initially. Luckily we settled on the hifi bambbo stand.
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Equally they look good and I’d trust a good local carpenter to build me something like that to put my gear in and it be as good as any commercial hifi rack. It’s the gear that I have the issue with, for that kinda money you could be verging on Luna/Sutherland money.
 
duke86fan said:
ok then


(yall are so practical btw... ignoring all the big boujee audioquest or shunyata or ifi conditioners)
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It’s cleaning up the power and protecting against a surge. So long as it does that you don’t need to spend mega bucks unless you’re rich and fancy an experiment or live over here in 240V land where Panamax don’t do their still good but fairly priced units...

Also the iFi is reasonably enough priced at £500, go have a look at the PS Audio Power Plant 20 if you want to see just how crazy this game can get...
 
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