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Post by julesd68 on Jan 14, 2023 20:04:04 GMT
I ordered 1 inch width off Amazon. It will arrive tomorrow, although I won’t try it until my speakers are back and I’m used to them again. It looks like people are using 2 inch on head-fi 1" Faraday tape on Amazon for £11. Saves waiting for it to arrive from China. |
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Post by mattspl on Jan 14, 2023 20:39:19 GMT
I ordered 1 inch width off Amazon. It will arrive tomorrow, although I won’t try it until my speakers are back and I’m used to them again. It looks like people are using 2 inch on head-fi 1" Faraday tape on Amazon for £11. Saves waiting for it to arrive from China. Let’s just hope my speakers are ready quickly. I haven’t even received the quotation yet as they said they were very busy and wouldn’t get to look at them for a few days. |
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 14, 2023 22:54:00 GMT
Hope you get them sorted quickly!
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Post by brettj on Jan 16, 2023 4:18:58 GMT
Unbelievable.
Has been three months since my last purchase.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 16, 2023 10:36:37 GMT
Go and sit on the naughty step !  |
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Post by John on Jan 16, 2023 19:25:41 GMT
I just read the thread (thanks) It sounds like it can change the balance of the system if you over use it. I would suggest people if trying this to do it with small steps and find out what works for you.
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Post by John on Jan 17, 2023 21:33:31 GMT
Well I been trying this over the last few days.
I prefer on my power cables and grounding. On anything else the treble gets a bit hot for me.
It certainly worth a try but I would say use sparingly
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Post by MartinT on Jan 17, 2023 21:57:28 GMT
On anything else the treble gets a bit hot for me. That's really interesting, John. I have found it virtually a rule of thumb that any mod that works in the right direction calms any tendency towards brightness. The converse is true: any mod that is detrimental almost always goes towards brightness, which may wow at first but tires in the long run. |
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Post by John on Jan 17, 2023 22:04:39 GMT
It does this on anything to do with the signal. With power and grounding it works well
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Post by mattspl on Jan 18, 2023 20:59:25 GMT
Well I been trying this over the last few days. I prefer on my power cables and grounding. On anything else the treble gets a bit hot for me. It certainly worth a try but I would say use sparingly Anymore progress John? I just did a quick experiment. I have a Fluke non contact tester like this Fluke 1AC II VoltAlert Electrical Tester amzn.eu/d/9ESnWu7The tester picks up EMF from live cables. It won’t work through screened or armoured cables. I held the RFID tape against a cable and tried to test with the Fluke tester and it won’t pick up anything, so this is encouraging. |
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Post by John on Jan 19, 2023 10:12:29 GMT
I will not be able to hear the system until Friday
On the power side it does that usual trick of a darker background, depth and impact
So places that work for me are mains cables connectors to all 240v device's I have not tried yet on small DC current
Places I thought were a backwards step signal cables including Ethernet DAC and amplifier.
Just add slowly and find what works and what is a backwards step.
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Post by John on Jan 20, 2023 13:43:42 GMT
I now put on all my DC leads intially a bit too analytical for me so I took off the cable powering my clock
Now that a lot better
Doing the DC cables only makes a slight difference I will need to live with it a while over different music to see if it stays in on the DC circuit
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Post by mattspl on Jan 20, 2023 14:36:42 GMT
I have tried the tape as I couldn’t wait 😂
My power cord into my Dac has an Oyaide IEC connector that’s plastic and the Fluke tester picks up the live cable through it.
The cable itself is Acrolink and is screened.
I applied the tape, wrapping it round the Oyaide IEC, so that the tape goes all the way from the Oyaide cable entry, until the tape just touches the Dac body. This made it so the Fluke tester no longer picked up any live signal.
I also taped a couple of feet of the fig.8 cable to my Tv as it passes through a hole with the HDMI drilled through the chimney breast corner to the Tv mounted over the fireplace.
I’m getting more detail and timing precision through on recordings. Reverb is much more obvious.
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Post by John on Jan 20, 2023 15:17:02 GMT
Removed from all the DC connections have a preference for without
But think this will be a personal experience
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Post by mattspl on Jan 22, 2023 15:35:47 GMT
After reading through almost every post in the Head-Fi thread, one post I came across was wrapping the cylinder of the ifi ipurifier noise filter in this tape.
I wrapped it yesterday, but didn’t get to listen to music, only a few things on Netflix that contained music and I thought the sound was very good.
Today I’ve been listening to a bit of music and can confirm the background is much quieter, letting more detail through.
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Post by John on Jan 22, 2023 16:22:03 GMT
Yes it's surprising that in the right place this can help lower the noise floor.
I tend to see RFI/EMI as the death of digital music. Eliminating as much as you can allows music to flow.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 22, 2023 16:25:31 GMT
Noise is the enemy of digital music.
It's the exact opposite of the 'digits are digits' argument from those who don't understand how the D to A process works. Any effort to cut noise from the digital chain is rewarded with better sound quality.
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Post by stellabagpuss on Jan 22, 2023 16:44:20 GMT
My turn to report in.. So l don't use Faraday Tape,l use Copper Sheilding tape,then put some insulation tape over the top or heatsrink wrap. So just tried this process on the power input of my Gustard R26. Well l wasn't quite expecting that,what a nice improvement,and for peanuts really. This is something I really kind of overlooked,due to the obession of my NUC. l also have some sheilded paint that does a similar job RUSTINS G Shield Electro Smog Shielding Paint 500ml amzn.eu/d/8PDUAWHI've actually applied the tape to the end of my two Zero Zone DC outputs that power the PC and SSD,but l can't comment on that,as l done it months ago. So a quick question, apart from the plug inputs, has any applied to the mains side yet,not touching the connectors 🤣 Going to try a few bits now ...Excellent chaps |
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Post by stellabagpuss on Jan 22, 2023 17:25:45 GMT
So this keeps getting better....Just applied tape to the DC out of my ifi Power Elite psi that runs my LB clock, and did the power lead input.
That's another wow moment, l now seem to experiencing the same qualities of when l hays my Audio GD DI-20HE, but minus the slowness.
Love it...
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 22, 2023 18:34:27 GMT
Great job. Are you using the Audio GD again now?
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