New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement


Hello,

Newbie here and electrical idiot. Just moved to a new to us house in Tampa. Before we moved in I had an electrician put in a dedicated line (has it's own breaker switch) which is 10 gauge and two Furutech GTX-D outlets - Rhodium.

When I hooked up the EMI meter in my old house, which didn't have a dedicated line, the reading was usually around 26 or so IIRC. At the new house the outlets are 89 usually and the dedicated line is usually around 82 - so not much help for the cost of the "project" and pretty noisy.

Also, when the ac /hvac is running the meter reads about 100 points higher (!) for both the regular outlets and the dedicated Furutechs. Not good.

Thoughts? Does the dedicated line need it's own breaker box? 

I'm also considering a line conditioner but wanted to see what could be done here. Thanks.

laynes

@carsbad. Pure sine wave inverters are not very expensive at all really. I can buy a 1000W unit out of Asia that will produce a fairly accurate sine wave for < $100. They are a dime a dozen on Amazon, Alibaba, etc. At light loads they produce good sine waves. At heavy loads there is some distortion. I even quickly found a DIY link for a 1KW pure sine wave based on old technology. The person built it for <$50 of parts. Probably not much of a market for those big old transformers so they are cheap.

Rhodium is an adequate conductor of electricity for a coating that is 10-20um. You would need very good equipment to measure the resistance of a coating that thin. It is poor because it is very hard.

You can’t install 240 outlets willy nilly. The NEC is written to prevent that. They can only be legally installed to support a device that requires that level of power (not voltage). Those appliances you have have 240V outlets because they require the power that 240V can deliver. It is NEC 210.6 (in complete) that specifies this.

The conversation has degraded to burning in AC power outlets. I think we have lost the plot on the conversation already.

Ignorance is bliss... It’s Not about burning-in just any outlet.

Two threads of many from the Agon archives...

Furutech GTX NCF receptacle break in, how long

 

Furutech GTX-D Rhodium NCF Outlet

 

I can provide a bunch move Links on the subject from users that have experience with the Rhodium plated copper contacts on the Furutech GTX NFC outlet.

 

My bet is the OP’s problem is with the outlets.... 35 hours of burn-in is nothing. Some of the loads that are plugged into one of the outlets may be less than a half of an amp...

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Laynes- I fail to understand what in your post is the actual SQ problem?

Your PL has noise suppression   circuitry. As mentioned, a good piece  of equipment with  adequate power supply is really all that's needed. You have the dedicated line, which is a good move.

If you're bent on having more audiophool stuff, there's AC regen or Audioquest Niagqra PLC's. Both get favorable reviews.

PL HP user/PS Audio PP.

The PL is good enough to not need any of that stuff, but alas,  this is the hobby. 

I will take that bet @jea48, friendly of course. I am sure there are lots of phile reports of Rhodium sounding wonderful. Not hard to find many listening reports from philes are are simply impossible. Has not been a barrier since the start of audio.  We are not the most skeptical bunch.

In some cases things like a dedicated line ends up being more of an Insurance policy for best performance than otherwise and one might never accrue any concrete benefit. That appeals to many Audiophile types that are always on the lookout for whatever they think they might be missing.

The benefits of a dedicated line is more and cleaner power and current. How much that actually matters will vary case by case. Depending mainly on relative noise levels otherwise and does that even matter with the specific gear in play and how much current an amp must draw to function optimally. That’s about it.

 

Insurance policies may be beneficial for peace of mind alone if nothing else. YMMV.  Other than additional cost, a dedicated line done well should never hurt.