So much of this depends on your equipment, electrical grid and sonic preferences...my amps only sound their best, to me and my friends, plugged into the wall...but if I had different amps and/or lived 3 blocks away (which has a different power company), I might prefer them plugged into a conditioner...
A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks
And I realize that there are those that don’t believe in either
Assuming you use a power conditioner and after market power cords, do you feel that the power cord from the power conditioner to the wall might be a limiting or even a negating factor to the performance of the after market power cords that run from the power conditioner to the gear?
The reason I ask is that I was about to embark upon some more experimentation with different power cords and where I plugged them into when I discovered that the aftermarket cords I had purchased before and some recent arrivals are actually a meter shorter than the ones that came with the gear. This doesn’t matter for the amp due to its location, but when I did my last power cord upgrade I ran my CDP and pre into a conditioner so the length for those didn’t matter either, but as I was doing the musical chairs with power cords thing today, I also was intending to run the CDP and pre straight into the wall on separate dedicated circuits, but I found out that I am a tad short on those two.
Which doesn’t preclude me from moving my dedicated circuit outlets up a couple of feet, and I suppose I probably will, but I was curious as to the opinions about the limitations of a power conditioners power cord.
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@kennymacc I wasn’t doubting your results. I’m happy you’re content with your power distribution components. I’d be interested in trying the AQ 3000 or similar level conditioner at some point to see if it makes a positive impact. May be some day. But for now I’m good with powering my system directly from outlets. |
Some years ago I went through a number of the well known PC brands via lending library of CableCo in order to find one that didn't impact transients, no luck, didn't matter if outlets were marked for amp or not. Audience was the best of the lot but prefer all amps straight into wall via dedicated circuit running 10 AWG. |
@mclinnguy , to answer this I will say that my life is full of compromises. Up until sometime in late '17 my gear was set up with the stock 3m power cords in my living room, and something occurred that made me feel I would prefer to listen in a basically unused back bedroom. Therefore I hauled all the gear to that bed room and set it up and then scoped out where I thought I should put outlets to accommodate the stock 3m power cords and then I commenced to install outlets and drop in dedicated circuits to them. Sometime between then and now there were a plethora of dedicated circuit threads here on A'gon and one of them made me decide to go from using three dedicated circuits to using one, and that prompted me do once again break out my ancient power conditioner which may be a glorified strip. Then, last summer, I got interested in upgraded power cords and I started down the road with three very affordable 2m cords which made the reach okay because the amp is positioned where it will reach a pc with a 2m cord and the pre and cdp were already using the glorified strip, so 2m worked okay there (then) also. Present date: I bought three new upgraded power cords and wasn't really thinking about possible ramifications of their 2m length. My intention was to run the pre and amp directly out of the wall on one duplex and run the CDP out of the wall from another duplex and completely go without the power conditioner/glorified strip. It was at this point that I realized that the location I had put the outlets in when I installed three new circuits worked fine for stock 3m power cords but fell maybe a foot or a bit less short with 2m cords. Hence, for the time being, I am still using the power conditioner/glorified strip for my pre and CDP and the amp is straight out of the wall, and for the time being I am going to run it out of a separate circuit from the pre and CDP. That's the short version. And I type this next in all seriousness: from reading your posts/questions it does appear that you actually read through the entire back & forth in the thread before you started typing. |
@mclinnguy , house is ours, bought and now paid for. And moving the outlets up about a foot or a foot & 1/2 would allow all of the gear that I am using to go straight into the wall. Not only that, when I do that, I might as well do a better job of routing the three runs of Romex to insure more space between them. Which will put me back up in the attic again, which is my least favorite place in this house, but it’s not like I have a lot else going on in my life.
Well, not really, but that’s another story. The gear is off to the side, not in a rack and not between the speakers. |
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