ferrite rings

just ordered 8 ferrite rings, 6 are 25mm and two are 35mm.any ideas where i should put them?


cheers,


Rob.

 

ive just realised im wide open for abuse here.


:green: :NADowner:

 

Why did you order them ?
Had you something in mind ?

IMO they squash the dynamics

 

well Rob I was going to mention rings of fire.

I believe these little beasties should only be used if yu actually have a problem. No doub't WM will have more info for you, for myself I wouldn't bother.

 

i heard a lot of good reports about them and thought i would give them a whirl.i suppose with these things experimentation is the key.


cheers,


Rob.

 

Bad :green:

Making it worse :lol:

 

AS far away from your hifi as possible hopefully, in virtualy ever case of equipment we tried using ferrites, either as an OE fit or by putting them on, the dynamics and life is squeezed from the system, however the do seem to enhance the more presenation side of the preformance.
Example for the day, the CDfix, has a large ferrite just behind the IEC socket, that encompasses both neutral and +(VE) wires, instand up grade, remove ferrite and the music returns, with verve, miniumal loss to presetenation, only is a more noticeable when the upsampler is engauged. But as you say, try them, they 'May' have an effect you like. WM

 

HI Rob,
as a general rule - when you should place them on main cables, they will go near the casing of the equipment in question (that is the noisy end of the cable), and not near the mains socket (but you can always experiment!), and on interconnects near the target end (signal goes from source to target), say for interconnects connecting CD player with integrated amplifier the target is integrated amplifier. I tried them on my speaker cables, but I wasn't that impressed…again, you may want to try this and it might work for you.

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I use ferrites on both ends of TV and digital cable TV mains leads, they do improve the image...

They came in some power chords I bought for my powers and subwoofers, about 10" from component side, but didn't make any difference I could hear, so I removed them...

 

General rule is keep them away from interconnects, but you can use them on power cables and you should get benefits.

 

ok they arrived this morning,two of them were shattered into fragments but six remained in tact.

so first was speaker cables,i put a ferrite per cable at the speaker end. no difference whatsoever.

next up was my tt phono lead (stock rega 3)
i dident like the difference.they kind of squelched the sound.

last was the power leads.
they seemed to have cleaned the sound up a wee bit.i cant pinpoint it , it just seems to be an overall improvment.


fiver well spent?
yes and no....
yes because they have improved the sound, even if only slightly, and no because two (the two biggest ones as well) arrived in small peices.

to get best results ive put two at the source end of my amp power cord and also two at the plug end of the same lead.
ive put a couple on the power lead of my tt and i am still not sure if this has improved the performance of my tt any.

i will try some on my cdp later and see if i can gain any benefits there.



thanks for the advice guys,


Rob.

 

I'd be very surprised if they have any effect at all within the actual audio bandwidth.... Ferrite rings will suppress radio frequencies...(at the end of the day they are just very high frequency low pass filters) which would potentially help with noise issues in equipment. One place to definitely steer clear of using them is between a CD transport and DAC.. ferrite rings will cause havoc with the datastream as it is well in to the range that they normally have an effect.

From a purely technical point of view .. it isn't possible for ferrite rings to have any negative effect on the dynamics of the original signal within the audio bandwidth.. (unless you count subharmonics of radio frequency noise as part of your music) as they just don't work at anywhere near that low a frequency.

GTM