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The article aslo says: This project documents the construction of a shielded power cable using quality components. This power cable will be able to deliver a lot of current and the sheilding will reduce the potential of picking up stray RF or injecting noise into nearby interconnect cables...

Have a look at this.... http://diyaudioprojects.com/Power/diyMains/ Was something i found whilst trawling t'interweb. Uses diferent cable , but the process looks the same as what i had in mind.... Any comments welcome....

Matthew, You know thats how all "us" audiphiles talk ! :lol: I too agree that spending £200 on a HDMI lead is ridiculous....i paid £30 for the ones ive got. Yes they are upmarket if you like, not the freebie or cheap muck from Tesco etc. I dont spend masses of cash, id rather buy more...

Surely such things as colour , luminance and eveything else that is transmitted digitally, has to be converted into binary and the re- interpreted at the other end..

Surely, with all those 0's and 1's flying about at the speed of light (maybe a bit slower :lol: there would be a few bits of data that get corrupted or lost in transmission. The picture/sound shown or heard would reflect that ... it wouldnt just disappear altogether surely? I suppose the...

Ban. Ill give you an example. I used to have a normal bog standard scart lead connecting sky+ to the TV - it did what it said on the tin and carrried audio and video to the tv. I replaced it with a QED scart cable which is dedicated RGB only meaning no sound, just picture. Yes, you...

Regarding earthing the braid, its my understanding that the braid gets "combed" out at the plug end, twisted to form a spur, insulated with sheathing and then connected to the earth pin of the plug (wall end) The other end is left unattatched (properly insulated so no stray wires using som...

No need for sarcasm Ban with the "snake oil" comment! :lol: I have seen and read articles on t'interweb (yes i agree, some can be a load of utter garbage aimed at selling over spec'd supper plated this that and the other. The reason why i stated numbered black cores is that i knew if i...

Thanks for that mate, I guess its the old argument of "do better cables give better results". Lots of people say they do, lots say they dont. The idea of the shielding (at least in my brain :lol: ) is to reduce or eliminate as much RF or EMI as possible. I appreciate the fact that...

Hi All. After some expert advice regarding changing the standard IEC type leads that were supplied with my home cinema components (TV / Blu ray / Sky+ box / AV amp / Powered Subwoofer) i've seen various cables available off the shelf but are very costly. Im looking into making some...

Well, after looking into it, it seems that adobe acrobat standard was pre installed on my laptop...i have re-instated it via recovery and have reader 9.1 also....all seems to be ok...dunno if i will use acrobat but i have it now so what the heck. Thanks for all your help people

Thanks for that Joe. Havent checked yet but as i bought the lappy from tesco, like you say, highly unlikely it came with £300 of free software and unlikely that i would ever wanna use it given your description of it, so - looks like im sorted as reader 9.1 works just fine. For the novice...

Thats fine by me....like i say, just use for internet access really. I will double check but as you say, its unlikely that it would have been pre installed.... If it was, i could always use restore to get it back and apply relevant patch? Thanks for your help guys!

I will check the laptop box/literature etc..... If i type in "adobe acrobat" in search box on start menu....nothing comes up.... I know i have adobe reader 9.1 as that upgrade was successful via security update via kaspersky. I did uninstall acrobat like i said...but if it is acceptable...

I didnt buy it....came pre-installed i havent installed anything)... So, assuming its no longer on my system, what i would like to do (ideal) is download but if it aint possible to do that then i guess i could always restore from previous point in time. Only thing then is i am back to...

Ok, so assuming that they are different (now apparent) , bearing in mind i have uninstalled acrobat....can i just go to a site and re-download the latest version?

Hi Dave. I was tickin' over fine too....had adobe reader 9.0 which evry time i did full scan, never brought up any items to worry about......till the other day :lol: Full scan threw up a few adobe files which were high/very high risk. Successfully updated the reader to 9.1 as...

Thanks Joe. Yeah, reckon it was Kaspersky just being over precautious - it had put several adobe files in the detected risks (very dangerous etc etc) Dont know how dangerous they were but the update didnt seem to work so i just binned acrobat completely. Was able to update adober reader...

Hi folks. Excuse my complete naivity with this question but....... My Kapsersky software threw up some causes for concern with the version of the adobe software i had installed..... I tried the fix recommended but after doing so, it kept flagging up again and again. I did manage to...

If you dont hit air while drilling (if you have a solid wall) a good tip so you dont drill deeper than needed is to wrap a bit of insulation tape around your drill bit which will mark slightly more than the length of the screw you intend to use. That way, when your drilling the wall, you can...