Tonight I stopped at Fry's to get some heatshrink and TechFlex. Back home I built the cable. It did not take long, 30 to 45 minutes at most. OK, so that may be long for such a trivial task. This was the first time I worked with TechFlex. And to say that it has been a while since I last used a soldering iron is an understatement.
Anyway, how does it sound? Buckle up folks. Here goes :rocker:
The galvanic separation from the mains solved problems I did not even know I had. I realize now that the harmonics of the transients you get from e.g. cymbals have been clipped! Is that what people call digital glare? Well, it's gone. On the opposite end of the spectral range, the bass has developed a new authority that was not there before. It is even tighter yet goes deeper. As for the upper bass and lower midrange: the transformation here is magic. It is here and in the midrange overall that the most grunge was removed from the music. Then there is the background noise; or the lack of it. I did not realize it was there and thought I had a quiet system because I use power conditioners. It probably is a low noise system. But, when running the Squeezebox on batteries there is only a background of blackness. Zero Kelvin. No noise. It really is unbelievable.
But then, the whole previous paragraph is unbelievable.
I made it up to pull a leg or two. Whether you fell for it or pegged me right there, let's get a chuckle out of it
and do this one again and for real, in the next post, and right this time.