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| REW Forum Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ?Discuss Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? in the Equalization | Calibration forum; Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Anyone have any experience with this?
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I had one lying around from an older car stereo installtion...When I first ... |
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| Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Anyone have any experience with this? http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...entPage=search I had one lying around from an older car stereo installtion...When I first hooked up everything to run REW I was getting a hum thru my speakers and sub whenever the PC soundcard output was connected. I put this in line between the Soundcard output and AVR input..it did remove the hum. But I am curious if this product will cause problems with the measurements from REW. I ask because at $15.00 it is WAY cheaper than the other "hum" illimination devices I have seen referenced on these forums. Thanks, | ||||
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| Re: Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Cheaper isolaters tend to have poor low frequency extension and can have high distortion. Try connecting it in a loopback on your soundcard and make a measurement to see what effect it is having, can also use the Spectrum analyser to see what effect it has on distortion measurements. | ||||
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| Re: Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Quote:
http://www.hometheatershack.com/foru...d-bfd-hum.html The above thread should resolve any buzzing/hum you have that is being caused by ground loops - in a far more safe manner than cheater plugs. | |||||
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| Re: Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? The use of a cheater plug is cheapest and best way to limit hum without signal loss, I suppose anything could happen but out of thousands and thousands who have used these I have never heard of any death or even injury..... any unit should be fully unplugged for any connection or service projects. | ||||
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| Re: Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Althought a loopback measurement using the Isolator did not look any different than without.. I just got some cheater plugs instead...needed one for the PC and Monitor that I was using to run REW on. No hum...and no questionable device in the loop. | ||||
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| Re: Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Fortunately this is just a temporary thing to get some REW readings... Regards, Wayne | ||||
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| Re: Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolator ? Dont worry about it.....there are tens of thousands of these in use this very minute and I have never heard anyone have a major tragedy because of these units. | ||||
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