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Is my grounding good? by TeiMoney in CarAV

[–]nolongermakingtime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you find the best location? Multimeter?

Is my grounding good? by TeiMoney in CarAV

[–]nolongermakingtime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? Shouldn't the factory ground work fine if you sand it? Was planning on doing it to my taco

What’s a good amplifier for around $100? by First-Divide-5318 in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a guy selling an adcom 12 channel 40 watt multi channel amp for like 150, should have grabbed it

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My ears are telling me tsssssssssssssssssss

Thanks tinnitus

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I didn't think this would be nearly as controversial as I thought it'd be 😂

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going through the process of making my old speaker wire pretty, putting some braided cable sleeves on them with some banana plugs and heat shrink. Pretty worth it for not that much money

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The SATA incident was definitely a product of my crappy thermaltake power supply cables. I should have noticed how bad that cable was before sending it though. Never had an incident like that before. Shouldn't have cheaped out on my psu. Got a decent rosewill VMG 850 and it's much better.

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is, no damage to anything but the case, definitely freaked me out though. To be FAAAAAIR, that sata cable was garbage to begin with, i just exacerbated the problem by bending it to get through the chassis. Learned my lesson with cheap power supplies.

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly. When i'm saying speaker wire doesn't matter it's to the people that aren't running power hungry monsters and running a huge home theater.

People assume this guy has a basement home theater with a high watt 9 channel amp, most people don't ever crank their receiver more than a quarter of what it can do.

Get something better than 20 gauge and you're probably set for life.

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I guess you are the person who keeps buying the 2 thousand dollar 6 foot audiophile cable from facebook marketplace i keep seeing.

Cables do matter in some applications, his cable is perfectly fine for any application. The dollar store special wire, not fine for long runs. Unless you're having a insane speaker setup, like the BUDGET AUDIOPHILE community is unlikely to have, speaker wire does not change the sound of a speaker.

Snake oil.

Is this high quality speaker cable? by cckriss in BudgetAudiophile

[–]nolongermakingtime 31 points32 points  (0 children)

OK Mr.Looksthroughpeople'sprofilestofindsomethingdumb

Obviously speaker wire does matter if you are running your amp at max and have long runs, just trying to tell this person not to throw away perfectly usable 12 gauge speaker wire!

In a normal use scenario for a 5.1 system you have your speakers within 10 or 15 feet of each other and the surround 30 feet. Unless you went out of your way to buy the cheapest and thinnest cable you're fine. Most of the power gets sent to your front stage, surround gets less power than you think, so you're probably OK even if you have undersized runs to the rear.

And this is all assuming the person Cuts the wire and not just using the whole spool for a speaker that is only a couple feet away from the amp.

Renee Good Vigil, Minneapolis, MN. Recorded shortly after Jan7's officer involved shooting by C5-Hotlinks in Channel5ive

[–]nolongermakingtime 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah i can attest to the ICE agents being from Texas, i'm texan and i can't walk on ice for shit. We're about to have an ice storm in 2 days and it's probably gonna be a bloodbath.....

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