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In Reply to: RE: Nah posted by unclestu on April 04, 2011 at 16:12:46
Hi Stu!
Let's see, you said...
"I had already modified the power strip by running heavy gauge romex through the various AC outlets."
There you go, clearly not an audiophile device, all those wires and connections! Now mine on the other hand has custom stamped contiguous bars and blades made out of, of, something, probably phos bronze or maybe genuine brass. Anyhow no wires except the line cord and I don't remember how it's terminated. 2/$6.00 I think at my local hardware store but I figured I was worth it...
"difference in sound, particularly as now the dedicated line was in advance of such things as the heater and stove"
Hmmm. Maybe you islanders wire thangs differently than us westcoasters or did you put in an additional breaker above the 'MAIN' breaker? I don't know how else you can get 'above' the 220V split-phase stuff. I can see where that might help as the main breaker's impedance will produce a voltage drop from all the current noises below it while the 'main' section only sees the meter and wire back to the transformer.
Maybe I'll try it, if I plug my system into the outlet on the range it will feed from that section of the panel although it will also go through the little breaker on the stove. I'm almost afraid to try because if it makes a nice improvement then I'll have to rig up another circuit!
Switching gears, I've now got my paws on some larger 'crystals', well beads at least of various sorts and I'm going to take the antiphile approach and start by trying to measure them prior to listening. Why not? I don't hold out too much hope especially since I don't have all the equipment that would be handy but still I think it will be fun. Then of course I'll listen. I've found that a lot more things are measurable than is commonly supposed and I'm hoping it will be easier with larger samples.
Regards, Rick
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The power strip was rewired with 10 gauge romex TX series, which is a soft annealed wire with better conductivity. All connections were hard soldered.
Typical home wiring is set up so that your heaviest draw components are placed closes to the the input wiring. Normally your 50 amp breakers are located there, those for your dryer, , etc. I simply moved the breakers down and placed my audio breaker in the first position.
Stu
I'll try it Stu.
Here we have a large breaker that feeds all the 110V breakers so the busses in the box are split into two sections. I'm a gonna try the stove outlet which is handy and the only 110 outlet on the "main" section.
You do realize that I was just kidding about the strip don't you?
Regards, R.
especially when you made reference to that $6 price tag. It may be rather anal on my part, but I did go through many power strips, ripping them apart to "study" their construction. I added that just in case other readers may have been taken in by your humor.
It is rather appalling how cheaply made some power strips are.
I peered into some very high end audiophile power strips, too, BTW. Some simply doubled up the wire from duplex to duplex. One actually used a silver bus bar.
My favorite reasonably priced duplex, the NEMA 5362, uses mechanical clamp on fittings but like other duplexes built to US standards, has only that thin jumper plate linking each half of the duplex. I double up that jumper with a piece of 10/12 gauge wire and stagger the inputs to different receptacles to get more even power distribution. This all helps a bit, not staggering better, but every little bit starts to accumulate.
Of course YMMV
Stu
Hi Stu,
What I was kidding about was your strip being unaudiophileish...
The construction of mine actually did have some appeal to me because I was concerned that having everything plugged willy-nilly into the line filter might not be a good thing and wanted to see how it worked to have all the sources plugged into a single point. The strip I used with the broad, continuous conductor should look like that over a fairly wide bandwidth but probably won't hold up for very many insertions. I think it sounds at least as good, maybe better than before but I haven't done any more tinkering yet. Trying the whole Mary-Ann plugged into the stove is gonna be next...
Regards, Rick
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