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New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement

Hello,

Newbie here and electrical idiot. Just moved to a new to us house in Tampa. Before we moved in I had an electrician put in a dedicated line (has it's own breaker switch) which is 10 gauge and two Furutech GTX-D outlets - Rhodium.

When I hooked up the EMI meter in my old house, which didn't have a dedicated line, the reading was usually around 26 or so IIRC. At the new house the outlets are 89 usually and the dedicated line is usually around 82 - so not much help for the cost of the "project" and pretty noisy.

Also, when the ac /hvac is running the meter reads about 100 points higher (!) for both the regular outlets and the dedicated Furutechs. Not good.

Thoughts? Does the dedicated line need it's own breaker box? 

I'm also considering a line conditioner but wanted to see what could be done here. Thanks.

laynes

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richopp
760 posts
 

@sns Thanks for understanding humor when you see it.  Today, many have NO sense of humor at all.  I guess I feel sorry for them...

Look, other than attending a live show, ANY system is going to be different from that show, and, given the new "digital" age, one wonders why people complained about compression in the old days when today, every bit can be manipulated in the mix-down studio.

I totally get why people seek the last bit of perfection from their systems, and noise is probably an issue in some places.  Methinks one should enjoy the music and buy the best stuff that works IN YOUR ROOM.

We sold lots of Audio Research/Magnepan systems in the day.  Still have not heard anything that is better, but to each his own.  This is why we carried and sold 50 different lines of products.

Cheers!

 

richopp
760 posts
 

I suggest you spend another several million and put up your own mini nuclear reactor for YOUR house.  That way, you can run a single line for EACH outlet--if you still use outlets...I would connect DIRECTLY to the reactor, myself, but that's just me--and that way you will have NO NOISE and be sitting center front at every mix-down studio where your recordings are "created" from whatever the musicians play that day from wherever they are playing.

Oh, spend another million or so on patch cords.  They really matter as well.

Cheers!

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