Dedicated 20 amp circuit - Electrician laughed!


I brought my electrician out to my house today to show him where I would like to install a dedicated 20a circuit for my system.  He laughed and said that's the stupidest thing he's heard and laughs when people talk about it.  It said, if you're going to do it, you have to have it separately grounded (shoving a new 8 foot rod into the ground) but even then, he sees no way there can be an audible improvement.

Now, he's not just an electrician though. He rebuilds tube amps on the side and tears apart amps and such all the time so he's quite well versed in audio electronics and how they operate.

He basically said anyone who thinks they hear a difference is fooling themselves.  

Personally, I'm still not sure, I'm no engineer, my room's not perfect, and I can't spend hours on end critical listening...  But, he does kinda pull me farther to the "snake oil" side and the "suggestive hearing" side (aka, you hear an improvement because you want to hear it).

I'm not taking a side here but I thought it was interesting how definitive he was that this not only WILL not make a difference but ALMOST CANNOT make a difference. 
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Showing 3 responses by jollygreenaudiophile2

Wow, Just....wow.
Ok, I don't really have the time to explain ALL of this. But to the "OP". 
Um, get a different "Electrician" please. And maybe call the local authority office  electrical licensing board. So they may have a "Talk" with him. :"That will be either a county or city specific office that has jurisdiction". Many times what many call an "Electrician", is not one in actuality. And many whom are licensed simply passed a "Code Test". And the quality of the knowledge base standards actually varies widely throughout the country. I found that almost all electricians on the whole do not understand the theories that guide what we write into the code. The NEC  is basically a Scope and a glossary with three other sections. Those three are simply- "Plan, Build, Use" and written in that order. No one explains AC theory, OR, DC Theory. It's not needed at that level. They also believe that, "Ohm's Law"? Is an actual set of what they see as, 
"The Laws Of Electricity"!!!!!
  Ohm's Law is a guide. Nothing more. For what "Usually" will work, NEVER "ALWAY" will ANY of it work. 
 Any of you fellows doubt me? I can tell at least a few here are working electricians. If your non-union call your professor from your "A" upgrade college classes and ask. IF union? Call the hall and ask. I am known at "Local 26" IBEW Washington D.C. and NOT hard to find.
 And it's nothing against any of you. You just never "really", studied the "Theory". "Yes I know "A" upgrade gets two years, One for AC, One for DC. theory plus "Abstract Algebra", IE,, "Boolean Algebra". It doesn't count guys. Anyway
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Isolated grounding.....It works "IF" you achieve a "True Earth" ground with movement en masse. That's about the easiest way for me to unpack it.
 Dedicated circuits, They are great! Especially when you de-rate the copper and use "STRANDED" copper. Not solid. "I don't know why but "Siemen's" does". They talked me into it. and like everything else in this hobby? Yes, It will effect a difference in the sound of a rig given that it is indeed "Sensitive" enough to appreciate the change. And the "Room, furniture, windows and etcetera"? It becomes part of the "Rig". It all counts.
"IF", That last .001 of an inch of the copper conductor entering your equipment has it's circumference shielded, filtered, drained or in a few other ways modified. Then it WILL indeed,  "Modify" the magnetic field of said given area. Dependent upon "HOW" that field is modified WILL then give you a resultant difference in sound. It is an electrical system people. This is basic physics and Classic Electrodynamics, "for the most part". And some particle physics and a little field theory. Plus Quantum mechanics which then leads us into the realm of relativistic field theory. But, NOT the "Fuel line" on a 53 Buick!
 Just how did some of you guys accept the use of the microwave oven when it was first introduced? Oh, You hid behind the tree and peeked out until it was proven safe to use by that little girl and her mother. 
And not just bad, evil, "Magic" made by the "Witch 'o the North"?.........
   It's this new thing. 
We call it "Science". 
Get used to it. 
OR, 
Get out of the way. Go back and hide behind that tree again.
Ha ha, Ever notice that all of Mr. Ohm's calculations are, "Proportional"?

It is not a law. It is still an unproven theory. Like I said. And It doesn't always work either. "Which is why it will stay unproven.  You guys are going to believe what you wish to believe I guess. Hee hee. 

 They say, "Ignorance is bliss". 

I see it in peoples eye's all the time.