Whats on your turntable tonight?

Only 4 homes on our transformer (we were in the last 60 of 70,000 to be repaired after this winter’s ice storms?) but I think the noise must come from much further afield too.  Ours is the only one of the four to have air conditioning.   All these things factor in I’m discovering with now having much more sensitive and revealing speakers.   Isolation made an obvious improvement.   Shunyata Research Hydra yielded an additional increment (more consistency).  I’m still on the fence about the 20 amp dedicated line, it sounds the same as the regular plug circuit.  Someday I may try reworking the ground on the dedicated line to see if that does anything.  

@slaw 

Steve, I’ll chalk-up the sound awesomeness to the second MyMat 👍🏼

Brian,

I was hoping you’d say that!


I'm currently using 3

@spiritofradio

Im sure you are correct about the ‘further afield’ part. There are numerous houses off the transformer behind me. I know, as when it trips, the whole side of the street, and street behind me, goes dark. Lakewood is a very dense urban community.

Now, my electrician was doing work on my box when running underground to my detached garage about a year and a half ago and shook his head. ‘This ain’t right’. Of course, it’s a 100 year old house with a breaker box, an old fuse box, and an AC unit not hooked-into the panel correctly. One of these days I’ll have the whole box reworked, and think about dedicated lines to the rigs. Some day.

@bkeske I’ve received more varying opinions and seemingly subjective advice and direction from electricians in a field that seems like it should follow harder rules and objective principles.  However, I’m told by folks, who are certainly more knowledgeable than I am, that a dedicated line for your rig should stay separated from everything else and that it’s ground should extend separately all the way to its own ground rod.