Night time is the right time.
Those magical days when the HVAC is off
I'm reminded these last few days when after 90 days straight with the AC running, the weather broke and the temps dropped, and with no AC running (or likewise in winter when no heat is cranking) my rig sounds easily 20% better - like I had added a new component- more clarity, overtones/timbre, sparkle - the standard sonic improvement adjectives - so how does one accomplish this year 'round? Which power related component is the one that allows your audio rig to operate unimpeded by air conditioning, the furnace, an overloaded electrical grid? I have separate dedicated lines to my components, but my rig really flows in a magical way when these climate conditioning appliances are not running. Is it power conditioning, or power regeneration that could possibly allow me to enjoy this increased audio performance more frequently or permanently? Any personal experiences of successfully solving this dilemma would be welcomed. Cheers, and thank you in advance.
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@carlsbad2 correct. Just turning off AC, what about all the other contaminating electrical devices still running in your home, all of it continuing to contaminate AC. And then think about the entire AC grid, we increasingly live in a 24 hour world, I suspect for vast majority of us, grid contamination pretty much same day or night.
The biggest variable day to night is both home generated and externally generated background noise. Also, I can understand why some dismiss this as cause so easily, many live 24/7 in high ambient noise level environments, we subconsciously block much of it out. And think about epidemic levels of hearing loss today, likely many of us suffer from it and don't even know it. Not only certain frequencies can suffer, but low level info and micro dynamics simply unheard. Think about how many of us not really hearing full potential of our systems, between ambient noise and hearing loss, could be a lot!. people simply don't know what silence sounds like anymore. Go to an anechoic sound chamber, you'll be freaked how loud just your breathing is. |
@sns 100% agree that I think the big difference is background noise, both inside and outside the home. For a second I thought I was accidentally reading my own post. |
I’m not sure if this has been mentioned already, but I’ve had this exact experience and my sister pretty much always sounded better after 8 o’clock at night. I do use conditioner and that helps some. Pretty good success with running my stereo off a large battery. It’s worth experimenting with both of these Options. I would say the most dramatic results that I’ve heard are with a DC blocker. DC current alter the sound by adding noise and distortion typically caused by HVAC solar panels and so on and I think it’s going to continue to be a bigger problem with being noisy and dirty and electronic devices as those devices proliferate throughout our homes and neighborhoods. but not all DC blockers are created equal. There’s a synchro Uni that I’ve settled on for a price that I can live with and it works wonders. There are also cheap blockers which claim to do the same thing, but do not. As always trust your ears. I may Ido a YouTube video on this. It’s a good topic. It’s worth it. - American audiophile |
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