The Monkey

I am going to learn Japanese tonight.

lol, it's still more like a buzz than ticking. I mean it's not like it's a

^I think so. I have heard that AEs customer support is pretty good.

almost like a ticking...

I haven't had a chance to make the shielded cable yet, but I just noticed that the power supply is making a buzzing sound. That can't be good, right? Bad power supply?

Thanks for the suggestions, all.

Guys, what are some good ways to get rid of odors from headphones, pads, headbands? My mk1 has a slight, er, odor. Nothing too awful. More like pipe or cigar smoke, not cigarettes. I'm going to get new pads, but other suggestions are appreciated.

Happy Birthday!

007 mk1 arrived today...

The WAF of the APC unit may be determinative. How does it compare to the brickwall and/or zerosurge?

You leave that to me; I'm a lawyer.

Rather than bashing someone upside the head, perhaps a better choice (for longevity of the Maglite) would be to smack them on the back of the head with the Maglite.

What are some other good bang for the buck solutions?

Are the pads really made of dogshit?

I received Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective by the Brian Jonestown Massacre from diebenkorn. Really cool DOUBLE CD! And what's even cooler is that diebenkorn and I got to meet at the NYC Meet and discuss tunes and gear and such. THANKS JUDD!

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Awesome. Thanks for the help, guys, I'll try it tonight. If it doesn't work, I'll just smash the speakers into little bits.

Thanks. The problem is I don't know where that should be. Do I tie the shield to one of the - binding posts? There is really nothing else to tie it to. Should it be tied to the chassis of the speaker containing the amp?

Thanks Dan, I think I get it now. I did not ground the shield at one end. One problem is where would I ground it if I'm not using terminations, just bare wire?

Nate, I'll do that. In terms of shielding, would the mogami star quad with the copper sheath be shielded? Or is there a different way of shielding speaker cables?

grrr... So I used some Mogami to make another cable. I took a single length of star quad, stripped each of the 4 conductors and twisted two for each channel. Same noise out of the right speaker. I guess the speakers have to go back, which is a pain in the balls. Is there anything else I should try?

I also thought it was the RCA's, but they are shielded and do not introduce interference in other setups in the same location. Further, the noise is still present even when I remove the RCAs from the equation (i.e., everything is plugged in EXCEPT for the RCAs). I suppose it could be the power cable or a ground loop, but wouldn't that be in both speakers? The noise does not seem to change when I move the speakers around, but I have not moved them into another room.

The speaker cable that goes from right to left. Makes sense. Thanks.

I used the last of the ERS to wrap presents! I need some Cat5 anyway, so maybe I'll pick some up.

Now for the dumb questions. I've never built a speaker cable. I want to do something quick and easy to test my AE2 speakers to see if the stock cable is picking up RF. Can I just use two separate runs of Mogami, using all four conductors? I won't be terminating at this point, just twisting the strands. Is this basic premise correct?