[Chris Hornbeck]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:57:58 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:

Hopefully not the last, but certainly one of the most
important, and definitely *the most* ignored for
typical homebrew (and, sadly, too many commercial)
designs.

In pro-audio it's been well to the fore since the very beginning of the sector.
There are no secrets about good grounding practice.

Production sound uses balanced interconnections between
multiple pieces of equipment. Internally, the same issues
arise in the same ways, because the signal path is
unbalanced internally.

And, of course, power supplies are "unbalanced" from a
signal point of view.

This is definitely *not* a done deal; it's, instead, an
important and mostly overlooked component of the signal
path.

There are no secrets about good grounding practice, but
there are also no magic bullets. All grounding practices
are compromises among various competing goals.

Chris Hornbeck
"History consists of truths which in the end turn into lies,
while myth consists of lies which finally turn into truths."
- Jean Cocteau