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Single plug dedicated circuit?

I guess if you truly want to do a dedicated circuit wouldn't you have to be allowed to only plug-in one device. If you plug two items into the outlet isn't one item going to contaminate the other item with noise from the first item?

So a multi branch circuit would be sharing 4 items.
 

I guess it gets down to sharing and Best to share with one but tolerable and acceptable to share with 4 components plugged into the quad outlet?

So how many people are only using one component per circuit breaker which is the truly finest way to receive a pure signal, at least if you ignore what occurred before the current reached the circuit breaker.

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immatthewj
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@erik_squires  , as I have stated and will continue to repeat, my grasp of electrical and electronics is limited.  This is the thread that got me thinking along those lines.  (With my limited ability to understand, I cannot help but think that a separate service for the audio system would isolate it from everything else in the house.)

 

erik_squires
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My opinion:

  • Make sure your ground is in good working order.
  • Run a sub panel from your main panel. This will give you big thick wires and minimal voltage drop due to load.
  • Use a voltage regulator in your audio room. This will minimize the effects of the outside voltages swinging due to power company fluctuations as well as other household loads like the oven, AC, etc. and it will add some amount of inherent noise blocking due to inductance of the autoformer.
  • Use RF/EMI blocking conditioners for all of your sources. Furman with LiFT/SMP or Zerosurge, all have excellent low frequency (relative) noise filtering.

I say this not just from listening, but from watching my home VAC swing no matter where I live.  By far the largest measurable improvements have come from the voltage regulator.

immatthewj
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@erik_squires  , I respect your stated opinion and you will get no argument from me, as I don't have enough understanding of the subject matter to argue about it (which is another way of saying that I am clueless).  And I do recall a thread I started related to this subject in which you & I did discuss the Furman, and that was informative (for me).

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