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Grounding cable gauge size
Ozzy, have you tried your grounding direct ot the duplex ground and w/o the Entreq?  
Grounding cable gauge size
I cannot anticipate any auditory benefit on a ground wire.😏  
Grounding cable gauge size
Are you connecting to the negative terminal of the speakers only with a standalone box for "passive' absorption? If powered speakers, I would guess you cannot connect the neg terminal to a ground of a duplex?  
Grounding cable gauge size
I would think that would bypass the Entreq altogether and go straight to ground. I think as an experiment you might find direct to the ground in the outlet would be better than the Entreq. I made an adapter from a spare male plug and attached a b... 
Grounding cable gauge size
Yes, the ground of your AC IEC can be the chassis, which can also be the signal ground of an RCA connector. So saying we keep them separate, which I also try to do with 2 ground rods, is kidding ourselves. So something to be aware of as Ralph poin... 
Grounding cable gauge size
Agree Ozzy, but with your meter you may be surprised that the  signal grounding is part of the chassis which may also be the AC grounding. Pull your power cable and check the exterior or the RCA connectors to the ground plug and you may find they ... 
Grounding cable gauge size
Rochelle salts are getting difficult to find lately.   I also use the 3M EMI absorbing material with the adhesive backing in my boxes, usually on the last surface away from the item being "absorbed".  
Grounding cable gauge size
I wired it with some Jena Labs wire I had left over from another project.  
Grounding cable gauge size
  Some weight to the box via a bag of quartz and tourmaline.  
Grounding cable gauge size
Ralph is spot on. Get your ohmmeter out and discover how your connections are connected to either one another or to ground. I have 2 earth ground rods. The first is purely the Puritan unit green ground wire through the Groundmaster device. The s... 
Feel free to talk me off the ledge
Your first mistake was leaving home and listening to other gear. Let that be a lesson to you.  
High Fidelity Cable replaces NPS 1260
I'm going through the dark phase now. All instruments have a lower tone but still very organic.  
High Fidelity Cable replaces NPS 1260
Fideliums - As you know with only one side exposed metal to work with I put my exposed side toward the object with the post. Not facing away from the object. I pasted it on fairly heavy using the applicator from the bottle all across the exposed m... 
High Fidelity Cable replaces NPS 1260
And my purple fuse!  
High Fidelity Cable replaces NPS 1260
Applied my Q45 today: XLR's, IEC inlets, all 6 Wilson speaker connections, Fideliums. Organic. Added 5% to 10% more to the sound from the start. It definitely has granules of something (magnets?) in it as nasaman mentioned. It certainly did not ...