On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:50:49PM -0400, Tim E. Real wrote: > Conclusion: > I could only conclude there was no CHASSIS (AC) ground, or it was breached > by a bad or loose cord. A very typical story, and you have been lucky. Proper grounding should never be taken for granted. A few years ago I inspected a set of 8 newly delivered active speakers - quite expensive ones from a very reputable brand. Three of them were not properly grounded. There was a short wire from the ground pin of the power socket to one of the screws used to fix the main PCB to the chassis. And those screws were black anodised... The scary part was that ground continuity had not even been tested at the factory. Regarding those 'cheat plugs', if I find any of those or any other tricks to defeat proper grounding on my watch, I take the same attitude as Joern - either those things get fixed *immediatetly* or the user can pack his bags. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
