Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners What are your opinions on power outlets

My best sounding system (shoulda left good enough alone) used an Acme silver cryo outlet. Don't know how much the outlet contributed but have 6 more to install into my post flood refurbished home.

In an Airbus 380 over Greenland now, seats recline. 100 agonizing positions.

Yeah... it's nice that *your* seats recline but it sucks that the person in front of you can recline *their* seat too.

Awesome 2x6 come on summer, time for reno. weather.
Sadly in the air those darn seats are always a pain in the.

Thanks Mojo for mentioning noise floor.

Have an actual electricians outlet shop a couple blocks away, decided to try a hospital grade outlet {10th of the A.Q.s price} surprisingly lowered my digital noise floor a fair bit {Spotify XBone C.D.}. Second day with it in and yet to play some L.P.s so not totally sure if it helps my analog or placebo.

A plus in going to such a shop is some pointers in trouble shooting bad grounds. Have now found the source of my issues, {counseling failed me}:} Darn old building with water mains grounding the clamp all rusted and cable sheathing cracked at the clamp>

As far as I know, there are no standards dictating the rejection of conducted or radiated emissions *into* audio equipment. There are standards related to emissions *coming out of* audio equipment (eg. FCC Class B) and usually when you mitigate one you also mitigate the other.

When it comes to conducted emissions into the power supply however, specific measures need to be taken. It's not clear to me that audio equipment manufacturers automatically build such measures into their products.

It's quite possible adding equipment upstream like cables, receptacles, etc could make an audible difference if such equipment is engineered-for-purpose and the site suffers from such problems. However, adding such equipment to mitigate emissions can end up affecting dynamics so things are not as simple as everyone thinks they are.

Hi Bridgman
Flying business class on Lutwaffe airlines. Seats look really comfortable. Not. The irony, LAX to Frankfurt, Frankfort to Tel Aviv.

I can hear and see Mediterranean from my room. It is beautiful here.

The guy who makes the omelettes is into 60s rock, loves vinyl. I'm going to send him some. "You saw Janice Joplin?" he asked. "Yes," I said. "Oy," he said with admiration.

I saw Janice Joplin at a concert in Winnipeg - 3 months before her untimely death.

She sure could wail a blues tune...

TAM

Lucky wish I could have seen her And Jimi being they both grew up in our neighbourhood, Vancouver Seattle. Though I'm to young my parents got to see them.

So After a week with my outlets changed over, and changing my cables grounding clamp to my buildings water mains. Wow what a difference all around. Cleaner Bass bigger sound stage. Even cleaned the sound level of my sources. My Vinyl even sounds much quieter, no crackles or pops until the end of the record then even they are more pronounced.

My 8 year old son came back from school and said why does it sound so much better a couple days later.

I was shocked
As this is only hospital grade and not Audiophool. Sadly here the Audiophool units are harder to come across.

Clearly the grounding issues were responsible for what your experiencing . Changing many things at one time does not lend credence to any one change. Glad its sounding the way it should for you now, enjoy.

It had nothing to do with grounding. Brendo disturbed the dust on his cables which improved the dielectric constant of the insulation.