Dedicated power and outlets

Hi,

I can attest that addding dedicated power lines is one of those best tweaks to do for your system. We are moved into our new house and I added 5 dedicated lines, all with 3 strand 2.5MM thick cables in dedicated pipes in the walls. At the end, I am using HMS gold-rhodium power outlets and in the fuse box, I have a mix of silver or copper 500VA/16Amp AHP fuses with AHP Gold III fuse block for each fuse. The basement circuit is totally isolated from the top floor with the use of a electric splitter (I not sure what it is called) and I have noticed that any other appliances that are run, either sauna, fridge, lights, washer, dryer, have no impact at all in the listening room.

I also used the SST stuff on the advice of Rushton and have used it with great reults. I used only a sparing amount on my mono amp power cords only for experimental purposes and it seemed to add some sparkle to the system, this was almost 1 1/2 years ago. I will try to redo some of the connections in the new room to see what will change, right now with the new room and lines, the system is more alive and dynamic then ever before, so I will proceed slowly before doing some of these other fine tuning tweaks. Good luck,
Audioquest4life

Mrjstark,no hard feelings :)
This hobby is frustrating as it is.You're right,if you upgrading from stock Home Depot outlet,even the besr ones they sell (Levitton $9=74)PS Audio outlet is an upgrade.

Yes Overhang, you nailed it.
Any one of above AC outlets will be better
then Home Depot stuff. Quality of audio outlets might be questionable, but these are still way better then your regular wall outlets. So...lets agree that dedicated line, audio ac outlets and ac-cond. will benefit any system.
Cheers.

One last thing. While debating which power conditioner to use I've also read where some prefer plugging their amps directly into the dedicated outlet- no surge protection or anything. They feel with the dedicated line there is no need for power conditioning. Without the surge protection is that wise?

If one just used a surge protection strip only, any recommendations?

I normally plug my amp into the switched port in my pre so the amp kicks on with the pre. The pre plugs into a surge protector strip like a Belkin. I have also plugged a power strip into the pre's unswitched outlet for the cd and the subwoofer AC adaptor feeding it's integrated amp.

I have been using decent quality Belkin power strips between the wall outlet and the pre and other gear. Never ran any comparisons so don't know what effect they may have on sound quality

Easy test. It will take 10 minutes.

Unplug the preamp from that Belkin power strip and plug preamp and power amp into separate outlets - don't plug the power amp into the switched socket on the preamp. Unplug the power strip from the unswitched socket and plug your CD player into a 3rd outlet - use an extension cord if you can't reach.

Report back. I would be super surprised if you don't notice a decent improvement.

Regards,