How much dirt is too much dirt


in regards to power conditioning?  I’ve always found better sound when turning off the tv, I thought because of the distraction (mental thing). Recent purchase of an EMI meter (Trifield EM100) shows the tv with 15 - 20 mv added noise to a base of 25 to 50 mv line noise, time of day dependent.  I sit here, close my eyes, flip the tv on and off, and hear real music tv off, painfully disrupted audio joy, tv on.  Then contemplate noise figures.  Specifically a post where a claimed drop of 200 something to 78 mv made their day.  I’ve never seen posted what is an excellent, good or poor number.  Anyone?  My real question being, will a line conditioner lower my power line dirt enough to be worthwhile?  

wlutke

Showing 1 response by erik_squires

I wish I could tell you that any of these meters gave solid data on noise and perception.  So much depends on the filtration in your gear as well. 

My basic guidelines are to create two zones of power conditioning.  One is the clean zone on which your analog devices with nice power supplies run and another is the dirty zone for wall warts, TVs and PC's. 

The biggest mistake I see users make is to put noisy and dirty devices on the same outputs of a power conditioner.  With few exceptions you just introduce noise after it's been removed.