Bacardi,I am using the ac stick plugged into a empty outlet in my dedicated ac line,which in turn,is feeding my hydra eight. I also have two universal sticks,one each,strapped to my speaker cables,as close as possible,to the binding posts of my speaker terminals. Also,I have a xlr stick plugged into the rear my CD player. I first tried the ac stick plugged into one of my hydra's empty outlets,but with some critical listening,I felt it was much better sounding plugged into the dedicated outlet though...Much more organic sounding in that position... Each addition of the subsequent sticks brought about much more inner detail and bass slam. I'm hooked on the sticks...