Upgrading wall outlets

My house is about 12 years old and at least average in construction quality but I was struck by the difference in the quality of the wire I had installed in my dedicated lines and the wiring in the existing lines which I saw while while installing the new receptacles. Get as heavy a wire as possible installed if you do have the lines put in. You can put receptacles in yourself as long as you exercise caution; trip the main circuit breaker and plug a lamp in if you don't have a meter to make sure the current is off. Lines are best left to pros unless you are an advanced DIYer.

I had 10 gauge wire (30 amp) dedicated line put in when the house was built. As time passed, I noticed a lack of dynamics and weak bass. One day the stereo was playing in the dedicated basement listening room as I was attending to the clothes dryer. I noticed a change in the sound as I touched the dryer. After some thought and running a line of copper wire from the dryer chassis to the brass water main pipe, I established a strong ground for the dryer and the system sounded better once again.

This experience led me to, TAKING PROPER PRECAUTIONS, open the door to the 200 amp service, and with a flat head screwdriver, tightening the grounds of every line in the service. Please trust me, this made a tremendous overall improvement in the system.

In addition to adding a PS Audio Power Plant Premier regenerator, replacing the orange "hospital grade" outlet with a PS Audio Power Port Premier was a great improvement. The new outlet tightened the sound and significantly improved transient detail and dynamic swing. My PS power cord is as in a vice grip in the Premier outlet.

Hifiman5;
Your experience , with the dryer , is the reason that we should also install an isolated ground to those dedicated lines !
Doing so removes any affects from the household electrical system .

Good luck .

"Furutech FT-D20A
Gold duplex receptacle. Did not expect much but a strong grip on my heavy power cords. I heard a tremendous improvement in bass and clarity. When my wife came home and asked what I had done to the system with a cheerful tone I knew that I hadn't gone crazy."

This ia the post I made on my system after I added the Furutech plug. I have a dedicated 20 omp line.

Go for it!

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