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In New York waters, we have sailboat raced on: Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Keuka Lake and Chautauqua Lake. Lake America is something else.

What about Lake Erie and Lake America ?

I would think that some defective equipment in the neighborhood was generating electrical noise. With the power outages, it finally failed. In the past, I could hear a distant mechanical noise, after a wide area power outage, the noise was gone.

If the two outputs don't each have a buffer, connecting the RCA output will unbalance the XLR output.

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It started as a fun DIY project in 2013. Fancy Interconnects? How about a potato, or even mud? https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/fancy-interconnects-how-about-a-potato-or-even-mud.236248/ Then was revived in 2024. Copper wire vs bananas vs mud - An interconnect test...

Note that smaller AC cords don't really limit current. A 14AWG cord can carry 150 Amps of current until the insulation melts.

It's a dim bulb starter. It limits turn-on AC current. It allows old power supply capacitors to re-form slowly. Also in components that have a serious problem, it prevents blowing the power supply fuses.

F1 races are no longer on US basic cable TV. They may have to change some of their race locations.

Yep, many things can cause AC asymmetry or DC offset. But in a residential neighborhood most sources are very intermittent.

Does it buzz 24 by 7 all year or just at certain times? In a residential neighborhood, there is not much that can cause a continuous DC offset. Also check the AC line voltage. Some toroidal transformers are sensitive to high line voltage. (most DC blockers reduce the line voltage a bit)

The thread title and the posts are an oxymoron. For modestly priced cables: Raw cable under $3.00 per foot. Connectors under $5.00 each.

As above: Turntables and speakers certainly. Components with moving parts like CD/DVD players, hard drives or fans, often true. Placed over other components with big power transformers, maybe.

Three thoughts: 1) You can have the electric power company install a whole house surge suppressor in the meter base. 2) MOV's have come a long way in the last half century. Those horror stories are old news. 3) retracted

The SurgeX, Brick Wall and ZeroSurge 'point of use' surge protectors are excellent units. But very pricey!