Question What do you use for power

[abacus]

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

Well if you can hear the difference in a double blind test then you are certainly unique in the human race.

Bill

 

[Al ears]

Well if you can hear the difference in a double blind test then you are certainly unique in the human race.

Bill

What would you propose changing to create a double blind test in the first case???

 

[MrReaper182]

If I have to change my power supply to get the best out of my hi-fi (no matter what What hi-fi sound and vison or the people on audiophile forums tell me) then my hi-fi has failed me and its time for me to get new hi-fi.

 

[Dom]

If I have to change my power supply to get the best out of my hi-fi (no matter what What hi-fi sound and vison or the people on audiophile forums tell me) then my hi-fi has failed me and its time for me to get new hi-fi.

Ok, its all in our minds but at least my Eaton 3S 850 UPS is IEC 61643-11 compliant. It means it can protect my gear against a lighting strike. So its worth having IMO.

 

[Deleted member 201267]

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.

CD / AMP both plugged direct into wall sockets.

Never used an extension block as i have never needed one.

Once a year clean mains plugs with a DeoxIT wipe.

 

[Dom]

CD / AMP both plugged direct into wall sockets.

Never used an extension block as i have never needed one.

Once a year clean mains plugs with a DeoxIT wipe.

That's all one needs actually, some DeoxIT and a microfiber cleaning cloth.

 

[abacus]

What would you propose changing to create a double blind test in the first case???

Which case
A double blind test is verifiable test which no one has yet passed when it comes to cables.

Bill

 

[Tonestar1]

I've used a Tacima for years, never noticed any difference in sound quality. However in my old flat I used to get interference on my TV picture, little bits of noise popping up in the picture every few mins. Once I plugged in TV into the Tacima they went away, thought i was going mad and tried moving it back, and noise in the picture reoccurred. So it was definitely doing some sort of filtering which improved my tv picture. Maybe I had a crap mains feed or RF interference somewhere. For little more than the price of a standard surge protection unit at the time it was a no brainer.
In short I could pass a double blind with it but only if i could see the telly in my old flat

 

[Edbostan]

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.

Electronics has very adequate internal protection.

 

[Alantiggger]

Wish that I had the laughing policeman gif.... but hey -ho,,,

AHHH, HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAAHAHAHA..... SO MANY SILLY FOLKS.

USE A PLUG.

 

[SteveR750]

Everything plugged straight into the wall socket, which has RCD protection at the mains box.

 

[SteveR750]

Which case
A double blind test is verifiable test which no one has yet passed when it comes to cables.

Bill

And few people pass the 320kbs vs 16/44 but that's for another day!

 

[Kenneth Fernandes]

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

It will be immensely helpful for use with a 27-inch full OLED 4K 260Hz monitor too!

 

[Al ears]

It will be immensely helpful for use with a 27-inch full OLED 4K 260Hz monitor too!

This thread is over a year old.

 

[DiggyGun]

Dedicated Hi-Fi Radial mains circuit.

 

[Friesiansam]

Surely if you are obsessed with the absolute cleanest possible power supply, you need a large battery pack, such as those sold for use with solar panels.

As I see it, if your HiFi hardware can’t properly regulate the incoming power, you’ve bought the wrong hardware.

 

[Fandango Andy]

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.

When it comes to sound quality, providing you aren't getting interference I'm not sure the average person with an average HiFi is going to notice much difference. There are lots of things to tweak first starting with getting speaker positioning as good as possible.

I do use a surge protector (I think it is also Robert Dyas). As far as avoiding interference, I also have a dedicated socket connected directly consumer unit and not on the ring main. Not by design, it was there when I moved in so thought I may as well use it!