Which pin is the power pin? Sorry if this is obvious but I haven’t seen it specified.
Pin 18, for more details:
He’s correct but I’m lazy. My pin18 isn’t masked off and it’s been rock solid for almost two years now except for my RCA coax dying after the last firmware update. I have an RMA but just haven’t gotten around to sending it out. Using the AES/EBU input with a Neutrik Balun as a workaround.
You know the stylus dropping noise you get on an LP ? Well, you get that only at the beginning of playing an SACD or DSD file. It’s kinda cute actually.
Just picked up the latest design, “Shakti Air”, of the “Shakti Electromagnetic Stabilizer” stone on sale at The Cable Company. With all of the recent posts about placing custom-sized pieces of sheets of shielding materials on internal components and the inside surfaces of equipment cases, I thought I would try a more “lazy” approach and see if I could get beneficial results from one of these “Shakti Stones” (SS).
So…I am looking for placement tips from experienced users of the SS. My initial candidates for trying this out are an Anthem AVM50v 2 Pre/Pro, a PS Audio DMP transport, a PS Audio DS Sr. DAC and a Sony Playstation, which serves as our primary on ramp/player for streaming movies and TV content on the Panasonic Plasma (audio from the Sony PS is via digital cable to the Anthem Pre/Pro.
I understand video screens and transformers are common targets for placing the SSs, but I was hoping folks with actual experience successfully placing these things on the listed or similar kit would share where they settled on placement.
Of course I will be performing my own empirical experimenting, but I am admittedly looking for a shortcut recommendation or two to get the ball rolling.
TIA.