Y power cable for Monoblocks

Hi Nick,

Get a Hammond power strip. See this thread:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1250444924

Best,
-- Al

Hi Nick,

I think that most of the comments on protection that were in your last post make a lot of sense under your particular circumstances. But I want to point out, fwiw, that fuses in your equipment are very unlikely to provide meaningful protection in the event of a large surge caused by a nearby lightning strike.

First, they are far too slow. Second, they are easily bridged (jumped across) by a sufficiently large voltage spike. Third, they don't protect against what may be on the ac neutral wire or the ac safety ground wire. Basically, they are just in series with the ac hot wire.

The primary purpose of a fuse is to prevent damage internal to the component that may otherwise occur as a secondary effect of some other internal problem. An example being a power transformer overheating and being destroyed due to excessive current being drawn by an internal short circuit, or by a shorted component such as a capacitor.

Lots of people plug their power amps directly into the wall, while providing filtering and/or surge suppression for other components. And for many of them, I have no doubt that it provides better sonics than if they were to put the power amps through a protective device. But with that benefit comes a little bit of risk.

Best of luck!

-- Al