I have a whole house Koehler generator that I had installed when we built our house four years ago. I cannot comment on on the transfer switch as my stereo room was the last major indoor project I did after occupying the house. Since moving in we have unfortunately had numerous outages with the longest being 6 days. I have tried playing music with the generator running and even though I get a spot on 120V there is a constant annoying low level hum like a bee coming out of each speaker so I don’t play music on my system during outages.
Backup Generator transfer switch
In the past two issues of Stereophile, Michael Fremer has been discussing the disastrous results to the sound of his system after having a backup generator installed at his home. The system is not running on the generator, but he believes it has to do with the transfer switch that gets installed on the AC signal path. He describes a pre-generator experience as "intense and emotionally elevating" afterwards "everything good was gone, two large ill-focused boomboxes had replaced absolute magic". I recently moved and had been listening to my system prior to and after the installation of a Generac whole house generator, I did not notice any change in the sound, I can still sit and enjoy the music for hours with no sense of fatigue. Perhaps my ears are shot or my equipment is not expensive enough. Anyone here have any experiences with generator transfer switches?
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