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

Post Subject: The last nigh. Why?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/3/2011

The last nigh I tuned the playback and witnessed one of the best sound I had. My playback ordinary doe for but this time it was like last winter – it was way beyond anything ordinary. Obviously the electricity was the factor but this time I was armed. I begin to re-measure everything that I can. To my big surprise there was absolutely no measurable different nether in grounds, or hot or in neutral. Some friends of my BTW explained to me that analyzing the neutral and ground noise as PurePower proposed to me to do it absolutely bogus exercise as I juts observe not the wires loaded from the location what I am to the location where neutral ground are connected. After thinking more I admit that I agree with it.

So, he we come, the sound was spectacular beyond average and I have absolutely no idea why it was so. If PurePower were not so think then they had a bypass switch in their unit and it might be possible to run the playback from the wall and to see what happened. Still, if would not give an answer “why”.

The leading idea is that something environmentally got changed that affect out perception and make brain to get positive sensation from sound. However, what might it be? Solar wind, moisture, pressure, pollen, smell, radon, amount of chicken in my belly – everything was in normal values but the sound was MUCH better than usual.

Then I did something absurd. I tool 50 feet of regular non-shielded wire and run it across my rooms. Then I put the end of it to my scope. I have stable 6VAC in there. What the hell I asked? I took my HP selective meter and measure the -79dB noise over 1000kHz (-130dB calibrated). Where those come from? Then I decided that some of my electrical devised in house do it. You understand where it all eventually lead me. In two hour the view in my house was insane to say the least. The PP2000 was sitting in the cabana (pool house) and was powering my scope and my frequency voltmeter. My entire house was disconnected from the drip by main switch and my stand by generator was shut down. The wire running across my room still was showing virtually unchanged voltage and I have a good 2 acres of land around me that had no electrical devises. Where is that noise and voltage came from and how it affected sound, if it was.

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