Question What do you use for power

[Dom]

At the moment I am using a basic Robert Dyas 8 socket surge protected extension which is fine. For my birthday I will start using an Eaton 8 socket low noise 510w UPS. Hopefully it will be better for audio needs because its low noise.

I was wondering what you nice people use to power your hifi.

 

[Samd]

All my 'kit' goes through a protected power strip which itself plugs into a wifi socket which plugs into a wall socket. The wifi socket switches everything off at midnight till 1130 the following day. I would be interested if you discern a difference.

 

[Dom]

All my 'kit' goes through a protected power strip which itself plugs into a wifi socket which plugs into a wall socket. The wifi socket switches everything off at midnight till 1130 the following day. I would be interested if you discern a difference.

It could be tonally different. I will let you know.

 

[aversaurus]

I use a tacima 6 way surge protection and conditioner.
Plugged into the wall socket

 

[Dom]

I use a tacima 6 way surge protection and conditioner.
Plugged into the wall socket

There quite good for the money for what you get, it absorbs a surge using 3 over-sized MOV's, gas tube protection and a thermal fuse. It conditions using a toroidal choke coil EMI filter and has a screened mains lead. Not bad

 

[Al ears]

IsoTek EVO3 Polaris 6-Way Mains Distribution Block + Initium cable, but only because it was bought for me.
Amp straight into mains socket

 

[Dom]

IsoTek EVO3 Polaris 6-Way Mains Distribution Block, but only because bit was bought for me.

Wow, thats expensive kit. Wish I could afford that...

 

[Symples]

Brennenstuhl 12 way extention and Belkin 8 way extention (I have a lot of things)

 

[Dom]

Brennenstuhl 12 way extention and Belkin 8 way extention (I have a lot of things)

Very nice, a bit of German engineering can't help.

 

[Al ears]

At the moment I am using a basic Robert Dyas 8 socket surge protected extension which is fine. For my birthday I will start using an Eaton 8 socket low noise 510w UPS. Hopefully it will be better for audio needs because its low noise.

I was wondering what you nice people use to power your hifi.

i use electricity....

 

[WayneKerr]

Daisy chain of Tesco 4-way extensions plugged straight into 13A wall socket

 

[Dom]

i use electricity....

Ha ha Al ears, ha ha.

 

[Friesiansam]

i use electricity....

You beat me to it...

 

[plastic penguin]

Just a basic kettle lead that came with amp straight into the mains socket.

 

[aversaurus]

The strange thing is I can tell when I'm using the tacima it does make a difference god knows how .
But I can't tell with high end power cords .

 

[record_spot]

At the moment I am using a basic Robert Dyas 8 socket surge protected extension which is fine. For my birthday I will start using an Eaton 8 socket low noise 510w UPS. Hopefully it will be better for audio needs because its low noise.

I was wondering what you nice people use to power your hifi.

Standard plugs, no boutique connects, and a couple of Masterplug adapters to give me additional plug connections. Beyond that, it's all stock.

 

[12th Monkey]

Mine's in my signature.

 

[Dom]

Mine's in my signature.

Nice...

 

[abacus]

10 way surge protected power strip, anything else is superfluous for 99% of the population. (Power system in the UK is pretty good)
If there is a major problem get a re-generator, as conditioners (No matter the price) are useless and any changes in sound are purely placebo. (Just do a double Blind test for proof) Also a lot of the magic HI Fi stuff has not been tested for safety so should be avoided at all costs.

Bill

 

[Symples]

Unless one has a noisy mains supply. Do these fancy mains plugs, cables etc offer any audio improvements?

 

[Dom]

Unless one has a noisy mains supply. Do these fancy mains plugs, cables etc offer any audio improvements?

My Eaton unit has low noise filters. I'm expecting slightly better dynamics.

 

[twinkletoes]

If you want proper clean power spend money on a battery backup like those used for computers. Or as others have stated a power plant/regenerator like those sold by PS audio very expsensive.

My Sugden a21 draws a lot of power so that goes straight in the wall, lower-powered devices are on a strip that came from wilko for 3 quid 20 years ago. Power is power THOUGH i find things sound better when not ganged up on power blocks and extensions and it is very noticeable, especially for high-power items

 

[abacus]

Unless one has a noisy mains supply. Do these fancy mains plugs, cables etc offer any audio improvements?

Placebo only

Bill

 

[michael hoy]

Belkin PF 50, mainly as a power distribution.

 

[Timbola]

Tacima 6 way power conditioner for DAC & Streamer. Amp goes straight into the wall.

I notice a positive difference of less noise with the DAC & Streamer plugged into the Tacima.

I notice a negative difference (strangled dynamics) if I plug the amp into the Tacima.