Post photos of your systems/rooms here! (Part 15)

A better shot of my new B&W 704 S2 speaker.

 

STR-6060F. These were Sony's first solid-state receivers put into the American market. They sound really, really good. I love the early Sony stuff.

 

Yup... I sold my power conditioner (placebo box) a while ago. Will never buy one again.

 

I attached one of those LED ribbon lights to my audio rack; still messing with the "stick factor"; I'll have to take some updated pictures, or maybe a quick little video. Looks cool with the lights out. Anyone know how to mod one of these things to have the lights react to the music? Thanks in advance!

 

I paid $40 bucks for it... at the very least, it's a nice power strip.

Curiously, when my system was in another room, the power conditioner made a noticeable difference. Not so much in the current room though, possibly because in here I updated the 1961 two-pronger to a grounded wall outlet.

 

Beautiful. So glad they stopped with the yellow kevlar!

 

They have LED light organs.

But, LED Wholesalers, has an inexpensive 17' LED strip, that already has a connection for a sound activated controller. The links below are to Amazon.

LEDwholesalers 12-Volt 16.4-ft RGB Color-Changing Kit with Controller and IR Remote, Power Supply, and LED Strip in White PCB, 2034RGB-R2+3369+3208, $24.99.



This is the sound control module.

Ledwholesalers Ir Music Controller for RGB Color Changing LED Lights Strips with Audio Input, 3329rgb, $35.


I have the LED strip but have not used the sound controller.

Here is a Amazon list of different sound controllers for LED light strips.

The problem is, that while you can dim the LED strip, using the remote. When you hook it to a LED music controller, the LED's will only flash on and off, which is more annoying than anything else.

Do a YouTube search on LED color organs.

I have a 3-channel color organ, but it is for incandescent lighting only. It will give you various levels of brightness, which works better for me.

I have three 25-Watt Sylvania colored light bulbs, hanging from the ceiling, inside of Chinese lanterns.

Here is a link to another post that I made describing it in full.

 

The effectiveness of power conditioners depends to a great extent on the quality of your power from the utility to begin with. One of Shunyata's sales representatives told me that. They make expensive stuff, but don't want their customers to be disappointed or spend their money where it's not going to help that much. That being said, modern power is often poor in many locations because of all the noisy signals fed back onto the grid these days - much more complex in nature than in past times.

 

Thanks very much for the info. I think I'll stick with what I've got as far as the LED light strips go.

 

That makes sense.

 

Yup. They're not always a placebo but they often are. Modern electronics should have all the filtering needed to regulate power built in to the power supply of the component.

In my home theater picture you can see a PowerMax RackMax. Just a really good rack mount surge suppressor, no conditioning. It's aesthetically more pleasing than the generic TrippLite on the rack you can't see that's under the stairs (containing the Vestax amp, Russound ACT-1 switch, internet modem, router, switch, and the patch panels for internet, phone, and coax distribution throughout the house. The projector has a Tripp-Lite single outlet surge suppressor. Picture and sound are marvelous.

 

My amplifier is from 1959! That's not so modern.

 

One of my favorite vintage speakers, JBL L40.

 

What he said!

 

I remember coming into work one morning after a bad storm (with "rotation" as they say) expecting to have a high death toll of monitors and computers. In two cases, the TL Isobars were still smoking! The PC's and monitors connected to them still turned on and/or booted up as expected. I let one cool then picked it up. Fried. Shook it. Pieces bouncing around inside it. Ever since then, I've never considered anything less a "surge protector". I certainly would never expect my Monster unit to take that kind of licking and keep kicking no way, despite filtering out audio nastiness quite well.

 

Very cool, my friend. Bet it sounds ace...

 

"The effectiveness of power conditioners depends to a great extent on the quality of your power from the utility to begin with" AND the stuff in your house, esp. on the same line as your audio system, that is putting noise on the line... or in the air.

Fl lights and some screw in LEDs can create a lot of noise, also your fridge, your powerline based internet, your smart home stuff...

 

Went from an expensive PS Audio P300 Power Plant Generator,...... to this not so expensive Supra Cables power strip, ($200. or less), also PS Audio power port sockets,

...don't miss the power plant because my power at the ports is good. These power generators do wonders with dirty power I hear.

But, as stated by others, depends on how "clean" or "dirty" the power is that's coming into your home,........... as well as factors that may be in your home. E-Bay and Audiogon are great places to find used stuff to give it a go and if it doesn't work for you, you can sell it right back on line and usually get most or all of your money back.

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20 amp Shunyata cable, (coming into the pic on the right), .... feeding the Hydra model-2, also goes into a PS-Audio power port on the adjacent wall.

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what we really need is a small datalogger that could be plugged into the outlet used for your audio system and would measure noise over time, then record what it finds for display on a computer...

 

Curtains on

 

Now that's a room.

 

Holy crap! That's a hell of a room man! Good for you