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In Reply to: Question about equipment in wall outlets posted by Cliff D. on April 19, 2001 at 22:03:58:
I run everything except my sub through a power conditioner. If you ever end up running an external amplifier, plug that directly into the wall. Everything else seems to benefit greatly from clean power. Make sure your receiver is plugged into the high current outlet and your digital transports (cd player, dvd, etc.) into the highest filtration outlets. This is not necessarily how they are labeled on the more inexpensive conditioners like Monster Power HTS-xxxx (not knocking them at all -- you can spend literally THOUSANDS on high end conditioners or power plants). Just pay attention to the level of filtration, etc. and experiment to see where each component sounds better.If you are handy with a soldering iron and electronics, there is even a DIY conditioner recipe that can be found here that is supposed to be quite good.
Good power cords also help considerably (if you're brave enough to crack open your components and replace the stock ones). I hardwired a Belden 19364 / Hubbel 5266 cord into my Onkyo and after it broke in for about a week made a TREMENDOUS improvement. Amazing transient response and much quieter noise floor.
Like many of these improvements, they may be very subtle at first (or may even sound worse until they have broken in). Try it for a week and then go back to the way it was before and the improvement will be generally pretty obvious.
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Topic - Question about equipment in wall outlets - Cliff D. 22:03:58 04/19/01 ( 14)
- multiple wall outlets: watch out for 240V differential between outlets - Elizabeth 09:22:29 04/20/01 ( 1)
- Re: multiple wall outlets: watch out for 240V differential between outlets - Glen B 14:42:41 04/20/01 ( 0)
Re: Question about equipment in wall outlets - Shinto 04/20/01 01:06:22 04/20/01 ( 11)
- Re: What about cheap ones though ? - Cliff D. 06:40:00 04/20/01 ( 10)
- Dissenting OPINION - waVeman 14:29:44 04/20/01 ( 5)
- Science and Power cords - Ole Lund Christensen 16:49:18 04/21/01 ( 0)
- Re: Dissenting OPINION - monk 09:00:41 04/21/01 ( 0)
- Here is a nice and IN NO WAY NASTY response. - john dem 19:09:36 04/20/01 ( 0)
Re: Dissenting OPINION - Shinto 16:39:18 04/20/01 ( 0)
Re: What about cheap ones though ? - Shinto 13:45:30 04/20/01 ( 2)
- Thanks for the response - Cliff D. 16:29:40 04/20/01 ( 1)
- Re: Thanks for the response - Shinto 16:43:34 04/20/01 ( 0)
Re: What about cheap ones though ? - claud 08:30:56 04/20/01 ( 0)
Re: Question about equipment in wall outlets - G-Man 22:37:36 04/19/01 ( 0)