Everyone needs their own pole
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Hi Marty, there was a thread already started couple days ago on this very same subject (same link): http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...overs-Who-Have-It-All-A-Personal-Utility-Pole
That's one way to do it...
Does it produce better results than good power conditioning? I doubt it, big time. But you could do both. The price difference isn't that high, really, if you were choosing which comes first; depending on the complexity of your system.
Does it produce better results than good power conditioning? I doubt it, big time. But you could do both. The price difference isn't that high, really, if you were choosing which comes first; depending on the complexity of your system.
I have my own pole. Believe me, it's nothing to write about. It is just what it is, a pole. So why do I have a pole? The new darnfangled 3 phase air conditioners. I live in an old village and at the time we built the house, no 3 phase service. The choice was either to order single phase Yorks from the US or something like that or get the utility to provide me a pole and transformer. The total of Panasonic Airconditioners plus pole was cheaper. Audio was never a consideration since everything else in the house except for the HVAC less the H (we are in the tropics) is single phase (obviously).
With one closed down already, so that makes 4 threads. It appears as if this is an interesting subject for the audiophilia world.
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Tom
It is ironic that the guy the article is about lives in a 250 square foot apartment on a busy street that probably has thin walls letting noise come in from everywhere, yet he thinks it helps to have his own pole and transformer.
His ambient noise has got to be at least 30 dB louder than any noise his own pole could suppress.
His ambient noise has got to be at least 30 dB louder than any noise his own pole could suppress.
agreed , here is the worlds most quit room ( according to microsoft )
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-t...abs-anechoic-chamber-quietest-place-on-earth/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-t...abs-anechoic-chamber-quietest-place-on-earth/
On the flipside, if he's a prototypical Japanese audiophile with a huge two way horn in that little apartment, you can bet he's getting his line grunge spoon fed to him. I still don't see how getting one's own transformer from the utility company helps in ways a standalone isolation transformer can't considering how little amperage such a system requires.
Alright, keep working @ it...down to minus sixty decibels.
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Indeed ..
I have had to have my own pole too and not because of audio... The only way for me to have a stable AC power (for the few hours it is available) was to have my own pole with its own transformer on it .. No other way around it. Whether it improves my audio is irrelevant .. I use double conversion UPS anyway for audio.
Isolation, isolation, isolation (not, location, locat...
) - every bit helps, and having an industrial grade unit doing the job is going to be a big gain for keeping a system free from nasties. Now I better understand why your system is not so responsive to the sort of tweaks I use ... 
Would you rather spend the bucks on the pole or the pole dancer if you can only afford one? Both can be quite electric!
From the top of my head.
I believe back in the 90'sDan D'Agostino did that.he brought 440 VAC lines to his house. Speakers were Apogee FR or perhaps, Diva. Amps were Krell Reference. memory is fuzzy on this.
The things we're willing to do for great sound...
I believe back in the 90'sDan D'Agostino did that.he brought 440 VAC lines to his house. Speakers were Apogee FR or perhaps, Diva. Amps were Krell Reference. memory is fuzzy on this.
The things we're willing to do for great sound...
I doubt it too. It's usually the ones with little or no experience with superior line conditioning that make such suggestions. What most don't seem to realize is that AC by its very nature is noisy and that noise is universal regardless of how close or far one is from a power sub-station, etc.
IMO, even if one had a dedicated pole, the noisy AC coming in from that pole still needs to be conditioned / cleansed but even if one did employ superior line conditioning, I would not completely rule out that a dedicated pole just might still offer some type of sonic gain here or there.
So why not be reasonable and start off with first procuring superior line conditioners (if you can find them) and then see if a dedicated pole is still desired?
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