Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Panamax vs. Tripplite vs. Monster

All I'm saying is that if your tire is flat, don't look under the hood for why the car won't go.

It's easy to tell yourself that this will solve your problem, but you have two of them.

One, you want to protect your equipment. Not a bad idea - surge protector for that.

Besides that, you have equipment in your home that is acting as an antenna which is picking up the Mexican radio station/RF broadcast. It would be very nice if Panamax made a "get rid of the RF interference in my house" box you could plug things into, but... that's kind of like asking for a pill to fix any malady.

This is one of those "determine the root of the problem and fix it" questions, not a "which whiz-bang brand name gadget can I buy?" question. The benefit of having a problem isn't always the rationalization for a shopping trip.

Bren R.

Tleigh, How do you like your earthquake mark-5 15" sub???

I love it. The thing is a monster.
The bass is actually very accurate considering the size and it will go very low. I want a second one but I'm afraid that it will be overkill.

Monster: Works Good, Looks the Best, Price markup
Adcom: Works Good, Looks alright, not as feature filled
Triplite: Works Good, Looks like ass.

similar applies to panamax... They all work the same, some have more features then others do, and some you won't be afraid to have in your AV stand, others would make baby jesus cry.

- D

I have to agree with Bren here but then I think all line conditioners are a bunch of huey.
However if it looks good and ya have the money to blow go for it.
Ever hear of fillings or bracies picking up radio signals? It's the same thing...I'm bettin you have a bunch of wires crossing each other.

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Personally, I'm not afraid of how it looks. I just want it to perform well. I agree Triplite is butt ugly however it is the least expensive. I do like the look of Panamax the front panel is anodized brushed aluminum and the build quality is exceptional.


As far as getting rid of RF (Mexican music), that’s a difficult one. We had a similar problem with a phone system that we installed in this guy’s house. Most equipment made must pass RF signal and not block it. I think the FCC regulations made it mandatory if I remember correctly. We had to use shielded cables and an isolated ground for the power. The good thing is that it worked. If I had the problem with my audio equipment I would work on it in steps like I had to a few years ago, somebody in my neighborhood had an overpowered HAM system that was interfering with my home audio. Needless to say I couldn't locate the source of the offender so I had to take different steps to fix it. First, I purchased a very heavy speaker wire (for testing) that had a very thick jacket I had to disconnect all speakers except one. I also removed all but one source like DVD, Cable box and ETC. I cleaned up all of the cables from the rack to eliminate an antenna. I also removed all gear that wasn't being used during this test. Still no go. I rerouted the test speaker in the crawl space instead of the attic. Finally! I’m making progress. So I rerun the rest of the speaker cable one at a time and continue testing until all of the speaker wire is completely installed without picking up RF. Then I installed one source at a time and found the problem again! The cheapo Apex DVD player allowed the signal to pass into the system but not as bad as before, so I tried using a Tos-Cable instead of a coax cable. That worked!
My approach to the problem (a quest) was systematic. Before buying a bunch of stuff I tried stuff that made sense to me first. If I had disconnected everything connected to the receiver and plugged in headphones and still had a problem then I would have looked at the electrical.

I hope this make sense. I’m trying not to babble here and I’m not completely awake yet. I need my coffee

Regards,

Tom

In case this helps, in Toronto all the Mexican music and spanish speaking RF interference comes from the CB frequencies (~27 MHz). For some reason CB seems to have caught on as the "alternate telephone system" around here, and sometimes you even get music across the higher CB channels. No interference on the emergency channels yet but they do like to broadcast on "the jeep channel" (4).

10-4 amigos !

My cheap computer speakers used to pickup radio. When I upgraded to a higher model I did not have that issue.

I have the Tripplite LCR2400 and it looks pretty good.
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