Other factors affecting sound
I'm building a dedicated room in my basement and was wondering if I should care about in wall electrical wiring and Receptacles. Do these generally make a big difference. I assume anything should be better than builders quality material. Are there any specific recommendations? What about whole house surge protection? Also, I have an option to install a second electrical box, is this helpful? I have a 5000sq ft house in suburban area with very few houses near me. I have clean and stable power. Recommendations appreciated.
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+1 MC. Dedicated outlets is often a very cost effective improvement. Obviously depending on your routing situation. It could get into the thousands if it’s a really hard run. Could be as low as a couple hundred bucks or do it yourself if you know what your doing. I had to do a little drywall ceiling work to get 2 dedicated lines into my basement but no big deal. I think I spent $500 total to pay my buddy labor and materials. Well worth it. |
I would go with the whole house surge suppression breaker when you install in the panel it will go into the first Double pole slot to right of the panel. Order the one that also has 2 dedicated 20 amp breakers built in that way your sending better protection to the circuits feeding your audio equipment they cost about 100.00. I think you can buy on Amazon |
hi there ei001h - the biggest leap in sound quality I ever got in my system was by running a dedicated 10gauge furutech CB10 line from my distribution board connected with a 50amp german made circuit breaker. But I didn't run the line to a wall outlet - I hardwired it to a e-tp609 furutech unfiltered distributor with internals replaced with the same CB10 wire, each wired connection buttered with NP1260 contact enhancer from high fidelity. The increase in sound quality was so good, I don't run my amp or preamp through my SR powercell SX any longer - the leap in dynamics, air and timbre was that good. Cost for the change added up to USD2500 - or about the cost of a powerplant 3 from PSaudio. You're so on track with your question, incoming clean and stable, or not : )
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