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Cheap grounding solution

By chance I happened on a good use for disused power cords: Disconnect live and neutral leads at the power plug and connect them all to ground. Take off the IEC connector and terminate all to a single spade connector. On your DAC or preamp connect spade to grounding post or casing and insert power plags into a switched of mains socket, ideally on a different circuit. Alternatively terminate with RCAplug not connecting the centre pin and use spare RCA input on Pre or DAC I think you‘ll be pleasantly surprised about the increase in blackness, depth and height of soundstage as well as increased transparency. Total cost: zip squad diddely
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antigrunge2 OP
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I am obviously not in any way a technical expert but it seems similar devices (Gutwire) are positively reviewed by the likes of audiobacon, audiophileman and 6moons and sold by the CableCo. Seems another religious war is in the making.
antigrunge2 OP
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You plug the ground only connected power plug into the socket indeed. The whole idea is to get a strong ground connection as often circuit boards are not properly connected
antigrunge2 OP
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Here you go: https://audiobacon.net/2017/12/09/gutwire-perfect-ultimate-ground-cables-review/
antigrunge2 OP
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It all depends on how dirty or clean your local environment is: I live near two schools with 1500 pupils in the centre of London and get RFI/EMI by the boat load. Using unshielded cables anywhere near the power supply simply asks for ingress of such…
antigrunge2 OP
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@pauly

actually no, as I said, cnnect all three leads (i.e. ground, live and neutral to the ground post on both ends, so your consideration doesn‘t come into it. The point is to provide a high capacitance link to the ground, shielding comes from the materials used to shield the conductors, not the ground part of the connection.
As I said,  I tried this and it worked beautifully
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