@pryso Did not miss it, just never played with it while entertaining ideas on cords that might be particularly good matches for my unit.
Upgrade Power Cord for FM Tuner
For those still using FM tuners (I stream also), what would you consider the best value in upgraded power cords? While retubing my vintage MD-108 today (original Sovtek to Northern Electric) I was embarrassed to discover that I had never bothered to upgrade the original crappy cord. Nothing over $500, as this unit is quite long in the tooth and may never be replaced when it dies.
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@hickamore , so what were your results when you swapped in the spare AQ power cord? |
Hello Skeptics! In "the old days," nobody thought about power cables and power supplies were not made to filter out RF information the power cords might pick up. Filtering out the 60 or 120 Hz line frequency was all we worried about. I live in a town with a nearby Navy base. One day I connected an oscilloscope to some unused telephone wire leftover from a previous rental. Neither end was connected to anything. The wire was around 20 feet long. I saw about two volts of pure junk on that wire! TWO VOLTS! All the wires in my house were catchng that RF nonsense too! Put a small mica capacitor (600 volt rating) from both sides of the power line to ground and across the filter capacitors in the power supply of your tuner and that should improve things markedly. It worked for me. Many of the newer, upscale power cords filter out junk RF with wire geometry or sheilding. Happy listening. |
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