For tubes get the deoxit pen or nail polish style liquid. The spray will get all over everything.

The audio version of the brickwall 8 outlet units have isolated receptacles. If you wanted to be real sure though just get a pair of 8 outlet/2 outlet units + a quality power strip, that should do the trick just fine. And just a little testimony to their effectiveness. I happen to be using...

Mute the line and mic. in? The microphone input is usually the biggest offender since it's designed to amplify low microphone voltages into the audible range.

There have been a few updates to the line. Zerosurge is the company that holds the patents regarding the technology. Brickwall is a licensee of that technology and Zerosurge is their OEM. The original zerosurge units used a different inductor than the modern units which sometimes made a buzzing...

That's true, no plug in device can protect from a direct lightning strike near your house's service, however with a proper electrical system and grounding they can protect from the surge generated by nearby lightning strikes as well as smaller surges from electrical grids coming back on after a...

The brickwall/ZS units do not produce any heat at all under normal operating conditions. Should you encounter some massive power surge the likes of which cause appliances to explode it may get warm. I haven't lost a single piece of electronics connected to my unit since i started using it, and I...

I was about to recommend some Magnepan MMG's to start off with, as they have a nice 2 month full money back trial period and are a great deal at 500 dollars new. You did mention you wanted the speakers to have "weight" to them, and while I think that they have great overall sound quality you...

If you're willing to do a little diy(and I do mean "little") consider of of Rythmik's DS12 kits. Rythmik Audio | products If you can fashion your own cab this is best, I was planning on doing that but chickened out and just bought a Parts Express box, cut the two holes for driver and amp, and...

MMG's in that sized room should be okay, an 8 inch sub however is not. Go for a 10in minimum, I recommend a 12. This assumes a quality subwoofer with low distortion characteristics. Most 8 inch subs and even the larger ones you'll find locally under 1000 are anything but, more like a midrange...

I love my MMG's, the in room response curves I've seen seem to indicate very flat response right to about 70-60hz after which they fall quickly. I haven't done any formal measurements but some sine wave sweeps and low freq test tracks lead me to believe that's fairly typical with the speakers...

Dunno about europe, but I hear that the reason they don't sell them in japan is because they don't bond neutral to ground at the house/service panel. The brickwall/zerosurge/etc units work by soaking up most of the surge energy in a large inductor, then bleeding the rest through a filter...

There's a problem somewhere. With a line level input the gilmore should drive those HD650's WAY louder than any person would want to listen. I don't think I ever turned my old Gilmore V2 past 70 percent, and that was with a pair of AKG 240m's, at earsplitting levels. With a pair of K501's the...

Yes, that's normal.

Think of it as a form of air without that nasty oxygen stuff that makes wire oxidize Most high qualty foam dielectrics will use nitrogen in the manufacturing process.

Not too bad, cept you really need to isolate the power cables from the signal cables. If they need to cross each other try to make them do so at a right angle.

Distance between the speakers, distance from you to the speakers, what amplifier and source are you using?

try starting by moving the speakers at least a foot or two away from any nearby wall, then adjust toe in bit by bit, don't go overboard right way. I've found the best toe in to be around 5-15 degrees depending on the speaker and listening position.

Well, I was gonna skip over posting anything in this thread but today made me reconsider. I was about to start a new one but I figure this is pertinent here. Statements have been made to the effect that the mind has a much larger effect on your audio than cables do. I've always believed that...

That's the original gold series cable. the Fusion type cables have a tapered (trapezoid shaped) rca end, sort of like the monster turbo hooplah interlink cable RCAs.

I just got some of their new "advanced" gold series cables. Sort of like the regular radioshack gold cable but with nicer connectors, what I assume is better braid/foil shielding (haven't taken apart the old radioshack to see, but the description on the back implies as much) and the cable is...

This is wrong Impedance does not decide whether or not you need an amp for the phones to perform. It does mean you need to crank the volume knob a little more in most cases, but usually not enough to cause problems. Low impedance phones on the other hand draw more current, which if they aren't...

I've measured a few devices through Rightmark Audio Analyser, so far all of my PCDP's measure flat (when the bass/dsp options are off) A philips minisystem measures terribly, it has 4 digital eq settings, none of them flat, or anywhere close. All the soundcards I've tested are more or less flat...

I consider digital type sources (soundcards, standalone cd players) to mostly sound the same within their respective families. This is only to a point however. Onboard sound and low end soundcards generally sound like garbage, amp or not. YMMV, but I had what I thought was a nice philips...

The number one goal is to keep any powercords as far away from line level and speaker cables as possible. Shielded powercords are good, and along with shielded interconnects should prevent audible interference even when right next to each other, but it never hurts to route things away from each...

It's actually not inaccurate, remember that the majority of musical information is in the 100hz to 2khz region, with vocals sitting on the low side of that. Extremely high notes on musical instruments stretch to maybe 5khz. That means the rest of the vis is occupied by the other 15,000 hz...