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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: Refocusing my audio efforts on optimizing electricityPosted by scooter on: 1/20/2011

Indeed, this is a reference to how important electricity might be. After last night, I almost feel as though my equipment is a much less important factor and takes a backseat to everything else. At this stage, I am thinking it makes sense to park my other audio projects for now and really focus on getting the electricity consistently as good as possible.

This is a paradigm shift and I know many have failed down this road. As a start, last fall we rewired the house from the new outside wire to the new fusebox to the dedicated audio line. I added an APC 15 power conditioner temporarily and only to protect the audio gear. Combined these have improved average electricity quality LEVEL significantly although electricity quality continues to be VOLATILE (today not too good, tonight pretty good).

Goal is to remove volatility and raise overall level to last night's level. Next week I meet with a retired power plant engineer from GE who does a lot of tinkering and I will pick his brain.

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