A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks

It's not about believing. There are those who use objective facts, and those who use subjective opinions supported by any number of biases, realized or not. Those in the latter group fall for snake oil marketing tactics. Those in the former are true audiophiles.

@squared80 , if you don't think that they work because you cannot hear the difference don't waste your time and money by using them; but there's also probably no point in wasting your time on threads related to the subject.

in the article it was suggested to put the junction box as close to the outlet as possible. So what does that mean? Cut out the drywall so you can attach the work box to s stud next to the outlet you want to put in?

@immatthewj Yes that’s what it would mean.

Good luck wrestling 6awg and 10awg cables into a standard JB though. I also can’t immediately think of connectors appropriate for that job.

Using a subpanel is the sensible thing to do here. Subpanels are designed to accommodate large gauge wiring in the first place, so it would be far less labor and pain than mickey mousing a junction box together.

It will cost, I don’t know, $70 or $80 extra.

The alternative is to run multiple 10awg circuits. That's probably the route I will favor when I get around to doing this job in my house.

I know the insulation material you’re talking about. Wear a respirator, not a covid mask.

@devinplombier , I just wanted to clarify that what the author was suggesting was beyond cutting out holes for duplexes and fishing romex down through them. I have no intention of "stepping down" 6 or 8 awg to 10.

As it is, every dedicated circuit (six so far) I have installed I did with 12-2. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the internet when I dived into the first project, and during subsequent expeditions I guess I wasn’t convinced that 12-2 wouldn't/couldn’t carry the current satisfactorily and I kind of got the impression from electricians I talked to (not on the internet) that 10 gauge is difficult to work with. I am still not convinced that gear plugged into 10 gauge will sound better, but maybe I am just in denial, and I may go back up in the attic and swap out three of the runs I did with 12 and use 10. Just in case.

For the time being, I guess my first goal is to get my new 2m power cords plugged straight into the wall with nothing in between, and that is relatively simple and wouldn’t even require a trip back up to the attic. Unless I wanted to space those three runs out some more where they go down the wall, and I guess I probably would.

I appreciate the respiratory advice related to working in the attic. I’ve gone from full blown respirators to dust masks to this last expedition--nothing. You probably understand what it’s like to work up there, crouched/kneeling/whatever on a plank that is sitting on a couple of ceiling joists or rafters or whatever one may call them, and all the other discomforts of working in an unfinished attic . . . the older I get the harder it gets and the easier and quicker I start cramping up when contorting my body to work in the places I need to work up there.

You probably understand what it’s like to work up there, crouched/kneeling/whatever on a plank that is sitting on a couple of ceiling joists or rafters or whatever one may call them, and all the other discomforts of working in an unfinished attic . . . the older I get the harder it gets and the easier and quicker I start cramping up when contorting my body to work in the places I need to work up there.

@immatthewj I totally empathize. If it can make you feel any better, mine will entail spending a day in a spider-infested crawlspace with 18" clearance under the beams.

Honestly, before you go to too much trouble you might want to assess the worst load you’re ever likely to plug into your existing 12awg circuits, before you declare them inadequate. In my most humble opinion, unless you’re planning to biamp Apogee Scintillas with a quatuor of Krell KMA-800s you’re probably fine 🙂

The designer of audioquest niagra left furman then made the 3000,5000,7000 series .upscale audio interviewed him .watch that .I use furman and audioquest cuz i have big monoblock amps.they have capiticors in furman and the aq models 3000 and up furman 20 I has 80 amps of transient.aq call it a magic box but it's a capacitor. The aq differs in that he put some magic ground purifier in it.looks like a series of coils with more in the 7000 model.i do like the fact that shunyata cryo all thier stuff.that puts the atoms back in thier lattice structure and rids impurities so electrons flow better. I would plug the amps directly in wall but we have power issues 2 x a wk and I can't afford to fix several big amps.some of my emotiva xpr 1 are unobtanium.wish they still made them.this is my most important aspect I have had all the models trip and protect the equipment. Happy hunting,my no good gofers pinball machine states what's all those wires down there. I think those gofers were on to something.happy listening. I'm a believer in 7 gauge wire from pangea.im sure there is better but great price point.i do belive in the twist.not the dance.in power cords and speaker wire and nothing less than 10 gauge for speaker.audio is based on science and ohms law with power meters and dB meters of meters ect it's all stimulates the brain .good luck on your quest