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Romex to your amp?

One of my good friends, a non-aphile, asked me an interesting question...
I was discussing with him why my new pc made a nice improvement in my SQ.
So he asked me this question:
Why not take the Romex all the way from the wall and connect it to the amp...instead of
using an after market pc? His logic was that the in-wall cable is Romex and therefore a straight run to the power amp would be better ( or at least as good) as a break at the wall plug and an after market pc to the amp. Does he have a point??
daveyf

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1971gto455ho
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An observaction, 2 of the 3 amp's in my system require each a 20 amp breaker. This was very evident with the light show when eather was turned on.Lucky thing, service panel is 15 feet away so we opened the wall. Installed two 12-2 wires each with its own 20 amp breaker leading to a split high grade 20 amp outlet close to the yamaha Pc4002m,Pc5002m amps. Still using the like new factory cords from outlet to amps and all eq. grounded, end of start up light show !! 
Now our observation, before dedicated wire feed my sound at idle was dead quiet and to all involved with flac type recording...life like sound !
Happy to report post wiring  "0" differance in sound... still life like !  
With an electronic engineer in the family, and a little factual science, I don't waste money and time in the endless snake oil market. 



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1971gto455ho
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Along with the light show there was the occasional blip from any other  light or appliance down stream that I wanted to clean up.That said the current draw is an expected non-issue.
Two separate 12-2 wires to outlet box "splitter" style, using separate non-tandem breakers. Well posted in the panel, and at the very commercial looking outlet behind equipment. Code, over kill, and successful.

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