Beatlebum/Tim,
Looks like I might be too late in this thread but I'll put in my 2 cents FWIW:
I used 10AWG romex in-wall wire. After reading a # of threads on A'gon w/ really good info from people like Lak to name just 1 person, by 2nd-hand living what Hbrandt went thru about the same time as I did getting dedicated lines, I decided that boutique in-wall wire was not going to be my pancea hence my choice in romex.
Junction boxes are bakelite & there is no metal conduit carrying the wire to my room => no antenna putting crud on my ground wire! When the electrician was doing the wiring in the main panel, I found that ground & neutral are connected to the same bus! He said that this is normally how it done for homes everywhere in the USA & that only for commercial ops do they separate ground & neutral. I believe that older houses have a water pipe ground connection (which I don't as my house is newer. I must be having a copper-rod-stuck-in-the-Earth ground(?) ).
From Bob Crump's suggestion on AA, I decided to try out romex wire orientation! I found it to make a difference even though it was more on the subtle side. I found that romex run one way had a bigger & deeper soundstage vs. romex run the other way. Of course, this is system dependent so the orientation that works for me might/might not work for you. Anyway, orientation made a diff. for me (contrary to my disbelief when I read Crump's post) & I had the electrician run the wires my preferred way.
The RGPC 400S provides internal parallel AC filtering that benefits my source components & my pre (which doesn't seem to need it as much as Ken S. has put in parallel filtering of his own in the power supply box).
I'm using Pass & Seymour 5362A cryo's outlets from Chris Venhaus with excellent results. The "A" designator in the model # is paramount as that signifies an all-brass Olin #688 construction.
I would have loved to use an isolation xformer like many here are using but the Internal Affairs Secretary @ home would have raised 2 eye-brows @ the cost! W/o the isolation xformer, the cost slipped under her radar! ;-)
Looks like I might be too late in this thread but I'll put in my 2 cents FWIW:
I used 10AWG romex in-wall wire. After reading a # of threads on A'gon w/ really good info from people like Lak to name just 1 person, by 2nd-hand living what Hbrandt went thru about the same time as I did getting dedicated lines, I decided that boutique in-wall wire was not going to be my pancea hence my choice in romex.
Junction boxes are bakelite & there is no metal conduit carrying the wire to my room => no antenna putting crud on my ground wire! When the electrician was doing the wiring in the main panel, I found that ground & neutral are connected to the same bus! He said that this is normally how it done for homes everywhere in the USA & that only for commercial ops do they separate ground & neutral. I believe that older houses have a water pipe ground connection (which I don't as my house is newer. I must be having a copper-rod-stuck-in-the-Earth ground(?) ).
From Bob Crump's suggestion on AA, I decided to try out romex wire orientation! I found it to make a difference even though it was more on the subtle side. I found that romex run one way had a bigger & deeper soundstage vs. romex run the other way. Of course, this is system dependent so the orientation that works for me might/might not work for you. Anyway, orientation made a diff. for me (contrary to my disbelief when I read Crump's post) & I had the electrician run the wires my preferred way.
The RGPC 400S provides internal parallel AC filtering that benefits my source components & my pre (which doesn't seem to need it as much as Ken S. has put in parallel filtering of his own in the power supply box).
I'm using Pass & Seymour 5362A cryo's outlets from Chris Venhaus with excellent results. The "A" designator in the model # is paramount as that signifies an all-brass Olin #688 construction.
I would have loved to use an isolation xformer like many here are using but the Internal Affairs Secretary @ home would have raised 2 eye-brows @ the cost! W/o the isolation xformer, the cost slipped under her radar! ;-)