Leemark; I used 6 ga. wire because I had it, and it was already wired into my main breaker box. It used to feed a 180 amp arc welder, and for that was certainly not "overkill". A mainline wire is only needed to go from the main breakerbox to a submain breaker box-- I preferred that because I wanted 4 duplex outlets, but did not have the room in my main breakerbox to wire them in individually. And of course, you're stuck with the "house" ground if you come directly off the main breaker box. There is disagreement about the value of grounding individual outlets and grounding just the submain (I grounded the submain). But a good ground is probably as important as the dedicated lines. High quality ICs, speaker cables, and power cords are almost all made of large gauge wire for a reason. Thicker is better, but of course dimishing returns are reached at some point. Hubbell outlets are well regarded for many uses as well as audiophile, and it appears that at 2 for $25. are less expensive than hospital grade. Regards. Craig.
Dedicated power lines for audio?
I have read all of the stories about PLC's and as a result I first want to build and try a dedicated circuit for my audio system. I have a 200 AMP Square D panel with lots of available space to start with... Now what? What kind of breakers, dedicated surge devices, filters, lines, outlets, ground protection, etc?
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