I found a cheap and immediately noticeable tweek
It was mentioned that I might not have made myself completely clear describing where my four recepticles are. I do not have any dedicated lines. I have one normal 15 amp household circuit in my stereo room. There are four recepticles on this line, and this is where I have the four Afterburner 8 recepticles. Chuck |
Hotmailjbc, Have you ever visited David Magnan's website (the cable maker) and read any of his recommended tweaks? http://www.magnan.com/powerline.html On the page I've linked to talks about placing three Enacom AC filters on the same circuit as your stereo. The filters are working in parallel, all of the recepticles on the same circuit receive the benefits of the filters. Replacing all of the recepticles also have the effect of making that circuit better. It does so by fixing the weak links, replacing the stock $.39-$1.69 that are made of who knows what quality of metals. As the AC flows around the room through each recepticle, think of a stream flowing along smoothly until it hits a big rock (the cheap stock recepticle), the rock restricts and alters the flow of water. Then it hits the second big rock which does the same to the flow, then then third rock. These breaks in the smooth flow of AC current by the cheap recepticles degrades the AC in your good audiophile recepticle, most of us don't realize it until someone tells us or we find it on our own by accident or experimenting. My particular recepticles, the Afterburner 8, is a very neutral and quiet recepticle, which makes it very detailed. By adding the other three, my noise floor dropped a good deal more so I'm hearing even more minute details. One thing to consider when doing this is that if someone likes a colored recepticle like one in the Oyaide group, multiple recepticles adding color may increase the coloring to a point that they don't like the effect. It may be a good idea to have a starting point using a Porter Port. It's only $36.00 and it's neutral, but it is also a very good quality recepticle that will easily remove the weak links caused by the stock recepticles. From there, anyone can proceed introducing more colored (or flavored) recepticles one at a time to see if they like the results. I've posted this because I still can't get over how much these three added but unused recepticles have cleaned up my AC signal. I never would have thought something like this would do so much. Chuck |
thanks for the answer. there is alot to this and many think it doesn,t matter but i do. i am positive that my system sounds better after midnight. not just a little better either. and i listen at all times so i don,t think it is psychological. my question is this.. are the ac receptacles in the furman a issue? this unit sells for 550 dollars retail. 13 ac receptacles would involve a lot of cost if they were even 20- 30 dollars each. on the other hand they are very tight and seem to make aa good a connection as the ps audio. time for more reading and experimenting. ha john |
John, So to be clear in my mind, you have a dedicated line running with just recepticle, right? If that's the case, then you're dealing with the one PS Audio recepticle in the wall and 13 unknown recepticles in the Furman. I've had a PS Audio Power Plant and I'm currently using their copper fuse in my Spectron amplifier. PS Audio makes good quality products. One question concerning your system is, how many components do you have? I'm assuming that you need more than one recepticle. If you only need one, the PS Audio Soloist that Tmsorosk mentioned might be a consideration. Otherwise, because the unknown recepticles are affecting the sound quality, either in a good or not so good way, and you don't know how much, you might try one or two things beyond trying to find out what the 13 recepticles are. The first thing that you might try is, since the Furman is plugged in and you have the other socket open, plug one of the components that is plugged into the Furman right now into the open socket on the PS Audio recepticle. If you hear an improvement, maybe buy one or two more PS Audio recepticles, or Porter Ports, put them in the Furman, plug some of your components into those recepticles and see if there's a difference, and see if you like that difference. If there's a difference and you like it, continue on down the line one or two at a time when you have the funds and the time. There's no hurry, take your time and try one or two. If you like it, great, enjoy your system. If you don't, swap them back and enjoy your system. Either way, make sure you are enjoying your system, you've paid good money for it and taken the time building it. Chuck |
live and learn. when i got the furman i thought it was what i needed. now i see the beebee is incredible. and my emotiva amp sounds worse with the furman because of redundancy issue. at least the furman isolates the refrigerator noise. right? i hope? or do i have 550 dollar glorified spike protector ac strip?? ha. so much for blacker blacks etc. i.ll try what you recommended. i.m using a decco pre, vdac, emotiva cd player as transport. so i,m going to try the cd and the pre into the ps audio dedicated line and the power amp to the wall for a day or two and report back. i;ll just use my boat anchor furman for tv, dvr and dvd. ha. i love this hobby. my system sounds pretty good all ready so i can,t wait for the improvement. thanks |
