How do you listen to music in the home?

dr wu23 wrote: Geesh....everyone is so...technical , when it comes to this.    I have a dedicated stereo room and I have my old classic system from about 30 years ago : Onkyo turntable, Ortofon cartridge, Onkyo receiver/amp, Sony cd player....2 classic Advent speakers and two custom made Nubian speakers ( from Indiana University -40 years old now...) and it all still works fine. I have wanted to upgrade things especially the speakers for many years but it all still sounds ok....so why bother?   Mostly listen to music these days on Shure headphones (srh440) thru the laptop or in my car cd player and system on the way to work...std Honda Accord stuff....but it sounds pretty good.

"I guess I don't get your point..meaning isolate the devices from themselves? If you mean having each component on its own circuit or something like that? Well if so that will never happen."

-->Yes, each box on its circuit, at least to separate the digital from the amplification.

"Of course I have never done any measuring of power to my home, but I have never experienced any issues what so ever with our computers, TVs, lights or sound system, never had drop outs or anything like that....
There is no humming or anything like that going on in my system and my phono cables are well shielded and made for carrying the tiny signal the cartridge outputs, no hum or noise there either from the speakers.


--> I don't have any trouble as well, power optimization is not intended to compensate bad quality power



"and your custom made power strip, I see that is a specific in your system"

--> We can talk about vibration-control as well, that's another specific optimization field.

For a few months I've been listening to music on YouTube and sometimes Bandcamp because I'm specifically looking for new bands and albums.

iPod Classic (120 GB) [16-bit WAV albums] plugged on Aiwa, Digital Audio System (Z-R220).

oliverstoned wrote: If your power strip includes surge protection, it's bad. Can you give me its reference? To plug directly on the wall is one thing, good because you avoid powerstrips but it's not like having different power lines directly from the power board (unless your different wallplugs match different lines). Yes Furutech is a good brand. The quality homemade powerplug is made like this: -Get an "industrial" aluminium-bodied powerstrip like this: -Open it and replace the ordinary cable by, say, a piece of affordable quality power cable (Supra) on which you'll add a quality power socket (from Furutech or Supra). Be sure not to reverse the phase. You'll end up with a musical powerstrip.

oliverstoned wrote: Hello Catcher, you're welcome. With Rodhium, there's a gain in details, precision...but this is not the first thing to do in term of power optimization. The royal way is to use separate power lines, the more lines, the best, with thicker cooper section for power amplification. The best is to use one line per device or at least: one for amplification, one for the CD box(es). The improvment in dynamic is really dramatic. As you can see at this end of my video, the filters are plugged directly to the power board. Coming back to you, the first thing to do is to check that each device is not out-of-phase (reversed phase). Avoid power strips, even most audiophile ones. Avoid power surge strips by any mean, would ruin your system. Now if you want an excellent and cheap homemade power strip, i can explain how to do. Then you can invest in quality power cables. Filtering comes after.

Hello Catcher, you're welcome. With Rodhium, there's a gain in details, precision...but this is not the first thing to do in term of power
optimization.

The royal way is to use separate power lines, the more lines, the best, with thicker cooper section for power amplification. The best is to use one line per device or at least: one for amplification, one for the CD box(es). The improvment in dynamic is really dramatic.


As you can see at this end of my video, the filters are plugged directly to the power board.

Coming back to you, the first thing to do is to check that each device is not out-of-phase (reversed phase). Avoid power strips, even most audiophile ones. Avoid power surge strips by any mean, would ruin your system. Now if you want an excellent and cheap homemade power strip, i can explain how to do.

Then you can invest in quality power cables.

Filtering comes after.






Edited by oliverstoned - May 13 2016 at 14:15

JD wrote: Nice CD rack you have there. Bet they NEVER slide off and hit the floor, and getting that CD on the bottom of the pile in the back row ...a breeze.

Mascodagama wrote: The music ingestion area.

Nice CD rack you have there. Bet they NEVER slide off and hit the floor, and getting that CD on the bottom of the pile in the back row ...a breeze.


Edited by JD - May 13 2016 at 11:36