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Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion.
All Jeff Rowland amps use Cardas clamp for spades (or bare wires).  It does not accept bananas.  It creates extremely strong connection and rotating spade won't make it loose.   I have small Rowland 102 with speaker connector and it is great (othe... 
Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them?
I bought once great speakers from few states away and then company went bankrupt.  Why? Because of poor dealership base.  They had only 3 places for whole US to demo them.  Still love them, but there is no support in case of any problems.    
Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM!
Sorry for your ordeal. 63,000 amps as a peak current is not that much. I have two Siemens protectors in parallel mounted in panel - each rated 60,000 amps peak. The question is how they rated your surge, peak or average and if average then over wh... 
Fiber Internet
You attach your own Wifi router to the Verizon modem or router via Ethernet. And when you do set ATT modem/router to IP pass through mode, to avoid double address translation.   My ATT doesn't allow "Bridge" mode, since they want to keep some f... 
ENGLISH ELECTRIC EE-1 High-performance network noise isolator ? Yay or Nay?
Jitter is not present in transfers since Ethernet doesn't work in real time (data in packets) and I doubt that electrical noise injected by the cable can affect sharp edges of DAC's internal clock enough to create audible jitter artifacts.  Electr... 
How best to arrange cables in this room...
While I don't disagree with what you say, I worry about loops of cable are the basic inductor shown in any electrical physics book.   It is a small inductor, but it is an inductor. Coiling wire increases inductance, but coiling cable doesn't, s... 
jitter
Jitter is created in D/A or A/D conversion by uneven/jittery conversion clock.  Jitter produces added noise and once conversion is completed it becomes permanent.  We can prevent D/A conversion jitter few ways before conversion, but in case of A/D... 
Why whole house surge protectors are not enough
@erik_squires   +1 Clamping voltage increases with clamping current.  It can be 250Vpeak (line to neutral) at 1mA, but it will more than double at few thousand of amperes.  Surge current will be reduced by inductance of long power line, but not w... 
Help me select few vinyl LPs
Thank you everybody for help.  So far I got 1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (180g) 2. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out / Time Further Out (180g) 3. Gil Evans - Out of Cool (180g) 4. Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul (180g) 5. Here It Is - Tribute to Leonard C... 
Help me select few vinyl LPs
@drrsutliff I found so far in Tone Poet series "Here it is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen" - seems like safe choice. @ghdprentice  Amazon (quick delivery) sells also 180g Kind of Blue but not a Mono recording.  Perhaps not the same sound quality, bu... 
Help me select few vinyl LPs
@dogberry   I cannot ask him (it's surprise) and we see each other maybe once a year (he is in Europe), but as far as I remember he is not into progressive Jazz or Heavy Metal Rock.  Kind of Blue would be safe choice, but he likely has it. @danma... 
Toslink
Slow Toslink transitions convert system electrical noise (on both ends) to jitter (but Toslink is immune to ambient electrical noise and doesn’t create ground loops). Fast coax transition produce reflections on characteristic impedance boundaries... 
has anyone tried playing an itunes library (on an ext. HD) on a newer mac with imusic?
Application on newer OS is "Music" and it plays library created with old Itunes. I made large library with Itunes on older Mac Mini (2014) on external SSD, using ALAC format and it played fine when newer OS introduced "Music" (renamed Itunes). I d... 
Opening Acts For the Rolling Stones
One night in the 80's I went to Biddy Mulligan's bar/club in Chicago.  For $5 cover charge I was in front of John Lee Hooker and his Coast to Coast Blues Band with invited guests: Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.  Today, all of them are gone and Bidd... 
Length of SPDIF cable
Beginning of transition of digital signal creates reflection from the mismatched characteristic impedance at the end of the cable. This reflection comes back and adds to original transition distorting its shape and causing possible time shift of t...