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What is over / under voltage protection?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

Power conditioners with this feature can turn off their outputs and
hence connected equipment in the event of a potentially damaging and
prolonged under or over voltage condition.

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What is whole room power conditioning?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

Whole room power conditioning is a term we invented to refer to the use of a single conditioner to supply power to a number of dedicated electrical circuits feeding a single room.

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What is a dedicated line?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

A dedicated line is an electrical circuit used solely for the purpose of supplying power to an audio or video system. No non-AV equipment should be connected to a dedicated line. The line runs back to the main service panel or a sub panel.

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Hum and buzz in audio systems and home theaters

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

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What is "clean" power?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

Ideally the AC power that feeds our high performance audio, home theater and studio systems would be rock steady –  it would not go up or down in voltage depending on the time of the day and it would not get interrupted by storms or accidents.

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What are spikes and surges?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

Lightning* is perhaps the most well known surge event as it is capable of causing catastrophic equipment damage where whole systems are destroyed with one 6000V+ strike.

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What is powerline noise?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

The exact effect of noise is dependent on the quality of the power supply inside your equipment, but unfortunately there is no relationship between equipment price and power supply performance!

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Ambient light control

by Nyal Mellor March 26, 2013

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Video targets: color space & temperature

by Nyal Mellor March 26, 2013

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Acoustically neutral

by Nyal Mellor March 26, 2013

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Video aspect ratios, screen masking and anamorphic lens systems

by Nyal Mellor March 25, 2013

This article reviews HTDV and film content aspect ratios and looks at ways to match content to display. These include manual and automated screen masking systems as well as anamorphic lenses and the ‘zoom’ method.

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Audio targets: calibration

by Nyal Mellor March 25, 2013

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