|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
174.92.183.202
In Reply to: RE: There's two schools of thought. posted by StephenJK on August 18, 2014 at 18:27:05
I will go with 2.
Follow Ups:
No surprise there!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Why thank you!
BTW I had new lines installed to the sound room when a goodly portion of the house was rewired when we bought it five years ago and had a 200 amp service put in.
I feel better about the power going to the system,but to say that any improvement in the sound resulted would be a fallacy.
If Québec has one thing in abundance, it is hydro power. Maybe I live in an audiophile's paradise and I don't even realize it.
There is nothing crazier than those expensive power cables although they seem to reconfirm the power of the placebo effect. Miles and miles of wiring and transformers and such in a utility's system,but the last three feet will create sonic Nirvanah. Yeah, sure...
"If Québec has one thing in abundance, it is hydro power."
Oregon too! Let me tell you, it doesn't help... Bummer. Whatever turns the turbines is fine (power-wise) and in my case it's mostly the Columbia R.
But it's a treacherous journey betwixt generator and Stereo and what comes out at the wall is but a simulacrum of what went in at the dam. Missing in action are the peaks, victims of finite impedances and voracious loads that demand their's off the top.
If have a scope (safely) take a look at your power line, it's probably not a pretty picture. The upshot is a bunch of in-band energy that the power supplies in the gear may not be up to rejecting, it's just about impossible if they don't use chokes and chokes have lost favor because they add quite a bit of cost, size and weight.
Of course at the other end of the system is the noise that your own loads generate and those you can of course ameilorate using thoughtful filtering and topologies.
In the past power-factor problems from rotating machinery were the biggest grid problem, but that was then...
Rick
Post a Followup:
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: