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OK, it's a 2 way street

Posted by bartc on June 21, 2007 at 12:59:37:
I'm not your best theorist here, but the issue on separating digital from analog, and in fact all these localized AC tweaks, is that AC is a 2 way street. The current flows in both directions and so does the pollution. So surely having a separate dedicated line for each leg would work best, but filtering/isolation at any point can help. That's because the last foot (or inches or whatever length your PC and isolation/filtering devise contributes) is also the first piece of the return 60 times per second! That makes isolating the digital between the wall and component effective in prevening some of the trash from entering the rest of the household wiring when it's generated within and from the digital gear.

Make sense to you? Try it and you'll undoubtedly like the results.