Who has Caps on their AC lines ???

Our friend an fellow Audiogon member Joe Sanders (Joe's tube lore over at AA) is a good friend and has a DIY version that is splendid. Perhaps he will post data here about values and how to construct. I think I have the data in an old email along with photo's.

The idea is the same as the Quiet Line devices that plug into your wall socket. It does work and the Quiet Line is great at less than $30.00. I have about a dozen Quiet Line's plugged in and around my audio system, having used them for more than a decade.

The DIY version uses better quality caps and higher value and should be a nice upgrade. I've never gotten around to ordering the plastic boxes and parts to build one, perhaps this will inspire me :^).

You can purchase a multimeter or dedicated capacitance reading meter to see what value they are. If you don't want to do this, and can live without them for a while, you can drop them in the mail to me. I can read the value and return them back to you. You might also be able to find a local repair shop that can read the value for you.

I have been using caps on my AC for quite some time. It is a simple tweak that i've discussed here more than a few times.

As far as Iso's go, they are not all created equally. Many people use too small of an iso, resulting in less than optimum results. They then base their opinion of how well an iso can work on this less than optimum installation, passing on the negative experience to others.

In order to avoid this, i've always recommended buying an iso that was rated for at least twice the draw of all of your components. On top of that, you want to find a model that uses a VERY large core. You can find iso's of identical KVA ratings with wildly varying core sizes. As a general rule, the larger the core, the less likely they are to saturate under heavy load or large dynamic swings. Sean
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Very simple here.

5 Dedicated lines.

2 Dedicated separate grounds:
1 connecting the 5 duplexes
1 connecting the system components

No filters. No conditioners.

I used Auricaps in parallel on my AC, was a very nice tweek. Lowered the noise floor nicely. I removed them however, I wasn't comfortable having them on my AC due to the outside chance they could be a fire hazard. I have two kids and live in an apartment complex. While the chance something could happen seems to be minimal, based on my living situation it just wasn't worth it.