I was reading a thread on Audiophile Style about ferrite cores, thread below.
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Of course I've had them standard on some data and VGA cables for years, however I've never really tried adding them, I did once wrap a Cat 5 ethernet cable in a toroid core but otherwise nothing else.
So I purchased a pack of 20 from Amazon (works out each ferrite core was 50p) and was trying in various places, added them to USB cables, added them also to DC power adapters, but then I tried one on the molex cable that powers my Asus Essence STX II.
Now my computer is a workstation machine (I'm a software dev) and expect in terms of EMI/RFI it's not the cleanest, there is 6 fans (3 of them are 180mm). There is also 3 Western Digital gold HDD's in there. I do already have external mains conditioning products in use and it already sounded what I thought was pretty good.
Well I'm very surprised the difference, it's removed some harshness from the sound, however there does not appear to be any lack of detail.
There are 2 photos below, one before with a red arrow, this shows where it's been fitted. The second photo is the ferrite core added. So try yourself and post what you think, to date this is the cheapest mod that's made the most difference to sound improvement.
Use of Ferrite Core Chokes . . .
I have a good friend that uses Ferrite Chokes on many of his analog audio interconnects. My friend has been an audiophile for years. He is high end. His system is one of those outstanding/unbelievable systems. He has two volume controls to turn up because he has two Krell preamps that are used in...
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Of course I've had them standard on some data and VGA cables for years, however I've never really tried adding them, I did once wrap a Cat 5 ethernet cable in a toroid core but otherwise nothing else.
So I purchased a pack of 20 from Amazon (works out each ferrite core was 50p) and was trying in various places, added them to USB cables, added them also to DC power adapters, but then I tried one on the molex cable that powers my Asus Essence STX II.
Now my computer is a workstation machine (I'm a software dev) and expect in terms of EMI/RFI it's not the cleanest, there is 6 fans (3 of them are 180mm). There is also 3 Western Digital gold HDD's in there. I do already have external mains conditioning products in use and it already sounded what I thought was pretty good.
Well I'm very surprised the difference, it's removed some harshness from the sound, however there does not appear to be any lack of detail.
There are 2 photos below, one before with a red arrow, this shows where it's been fitted. The second photo is the ferrite core added. So try yourself and post what you think, to date this is the cheapest mod that's made the most difference to sound improvement.
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