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Electrical question re dedicated line

In my home situation(new house) the electrician who came by to install a dedicated line said it would be too difficult and very expensive. Another electrician said that I could have a dedicated line but it would be external and would travel accross the outside of my walls(insulated of course) and would have a little box for the receptacle outside of the wall on the wall. My question is that the fact that my system is on a circuit with it's own breaker, is that kind of like a dedicated line? The breaker my system is on has 4 seperate receptacles on it in my room but only my power regenerator(PS P500) is conected to one of those receptacles.In other words, all that is on the circuit that goes to the 4 receptacles in my listening room is my P500. The other receptacles are not in use. Is that kind of like a dedicated line? Would there be much advantage to doing what one electrician said was possible and have an externaly run dedicated line?
My system is :
Pass X250 amp
Pass X1 preamp
Talk Electronics Thunder3.1b CDP
Hales Transcenence 5's speakers
PS Audio P500 power plant
Shunyata Aries and Lyra interconnects and speaker cable
Prototype power cords which were not given a name but are good as I've compared them against Shunyata King Cobra V2 and Synergistic Designers Reference and much prefered the cords I have.
Any help would be valued. Thanks
mitchb
newbee
4,794 posts
 
Your set up is essentially what I set up in my music room, except that I have only two outlets in one junction box, but its all hooked into my main panel w/seperate circuit breaker. It works just fine that way for me. YMMV. By the way are you running your amp thru the PS Audio power plant? If so do you detect a difference between that and running them straight from the wall outlet? Just curious.
muralman1
1,527 posts
 
Hi Mitch

I am a fellow Pass X owner. The fact you use your conditioner as an electrical outlet for all your components, the circuit it is feeding off of is not a dedicated line. You need to have one component on one circuit breaker to constitute a dedicated line.

I have three dedicated lines, two for my monoblocks, and one for my source. The monos are hooked to 20 amp circuits. for my amps, I think such a set up is crucial, but for an X250 a 15 amp circuit will do.

Is your house on a slab, crawl space, or other? It is not pleasent moling about a crawl space, but electricians are use to that. From what the electricians are telling you, I would guess you're on a slab. Other wise, they are lying to you, to get a bigger tab.
peterd
122 posts
 
Mitch.I think that it involves running a main line upstream of your breaker panel.I didn't do this but changed the breakers and lines to the uppermost location and cleaned and pro-gold the tabs on the breaker.Don't know if it did much.May be a little.
What did make a difference was driving in a separate ground rod and then from the PS Audio power port plug I ran a separate ground wire from the dedicated ground lug on the plug to the new ground rod.
Result ......no noise ! I always thought that a dedicated outlet and all and a PS Audio 300 would have cleaned things up but with that isolated ground I often look at the equipment between tracks to make it is on cause it is
so quiet.
Hope this helps.
Peter
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