Dedicated Line for Amp?
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I decided my body was too creaky to run speaker wires in my crawlspace and got an electrician in to run them. Seem wasteful to have him come over just for speaker wires so I asked him to put a separate line for the ADA1000. (I know that's small for most of you, but it's huge for me.) I left him alone and instead of the separate line he tapped into another line. Kind of annoyed, but he said it would be fine. So what do you guys think, is it worth having a separate line for an amp (and the pre-amp)?
While I'm typing, has anyone been able to get a hold of Axiom in the last week? I've not been able to get anyone on the phone at all. My LFR660 RMA hasn't gone through and it's been 12 calendar days since they received the last item. Not only would I really like to not have to shell out for the next credit card payment, but I'll admit I'm getting a little nervous. Does Canada take off in July?
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Re: Dedicated Line for Amp?
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My understanding is a lot of things are closed down or partially open in Canada right now due to Covid.
LFR1100 VP180HP EP600 M3 In Ceiling x 4 M5OW M2 - Atmos rears ADA1500.5 M3 Outdoor Speakers ADA 1000.8
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What's on the other line?
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Just the clothes dryer, I think. Which, come to think of it, probably wouldn't be running when I'm listening to music.
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House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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I hope he didn't wire that in with the dryer.
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If he did, when you plug in the ADA, it will morph into a plasma conduit.
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I put in a dedicated 20 amp line for audio only. 2 PS Audio outlets, 4 Acme cryo treated silver outlets. I use an IsoTek Aquarius conditioner and an IsoTek Evo3 Sirius strip and 6 IsoTek Evo3 Optimum power cords.
Sounds a bit better, I think.
This is what Neil Grader from Absolute Sound said:
Enter the IsoTek EVO3 Aquarius, a more affordable version in the EVO3 series from this British-based company. The rack-width steel-and-aluminum chassis houses six outlets—two high-current outlets, rated at 16A, suitable for power amplifiers, active loudspeakers, or subwoofers, and four medium-current outlets. Aquarius benefits from much of the innovation and technology of the uptown Nova and Sigma conditioners in two unique areas. Primary is KERP (Kirchoff’s Equal Resistance Path), which “ensures equal resistance and equal power delivery to all outlets.” There’s no daisy-chaining thus no outlet gets power before the next. This means that noise created by your system’s electronics will not migrate to the next output socket. Equally important is that each outlet is assigned its own dedicated filter network, which ensures optimal isolation between outlets. Additionally, the medium-current outlets auto-sense the requirements of the load based upon power draw. IsoTek asserts that its technology removes both differential-mode cross-contamination (appliance noise) and common-mode (RFI) noise, with a reduction of 60dB. Aquarius also features IsoTek’s unique sequential protection system boasting 67,500A of instantaneous protection from surges or spikes. Internal wiring is solid-core, silver-plated, OFC copper with a virtual air dielectric technology plus an outer dielectric of FEP/Teflon.
Some of you probably understand what all that means. I don't, but think it did some good.
Last edited by 2x6spds; 07/19/21 10:22 PM.
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If it truly matters to you, get a true sinewave UPS with 3000va rating and run it in battery mode. Wall Voltage is used to charge the DC batteries. Then an inverter is used to change battery DC to AC for driving your load. Perfect sinewave with zero noise. Zero. Look at Double Conversion models. As far as protection, you are never connected directly to utility so it is ideal in this scenario. No spikes…. Ever! I run a Cyberpower unit rated at 2200va. Weighs like 80lbs. Runs three systems at same time no prob. Other units fine too I’m sure. We install Eaton units regularly. OL2200RTXL2UN
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There are three things a dedicated line would solve: if you don't have enough power (unless you like your music really loud and the line already has a power hog on it ... is probably not an issue), your sharing the line with noisy devices (also most likely not an issue), or you have ground loop issues because some of your audio gear is on a different line (usually solvable in other ways)
My advice is don't do anything till you find you have a problem. Then see if it's solvable by a cheaper method before going to the expense of running a line back to the panel.
Last edited by rrlev; 07/20/21 02:05 AM.
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