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Been on the sauce Mark?
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
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Basically, yes . Though I have bought a balanced transformer (from Airlink).
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why did you delete the opening post.?
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John Wood KT88 Amp.
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I read the original opening post last night: It seemed fine to me. Apart from transformer size, are all these balance mains devices much of a muchness? I'm guessing there isn't a whole host of balanced transformer makers.
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Apparently it's better to have too high a rated transformer. The two UK hi-fi manufactures who do these do make very similar designs, both 1000VA which is considerably smaller than the one I have ordered. They are also considerably more expensive than the Airlink ones (who likely make the actual transformer in the 'hi-fi ' versions).
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Have one m'self, the 2KVA one from Airlink.
Be interested to know your thoughts Mark, big improvement here, but my mains quality wasn't the best.
Put a long post on installing mine here on AOS way back when, and for those reading theres 'plug n play' options as well as more hardcore hard wired ones.
If you dont know your leccy then (Blue Peter style) get a grownup to help plumbing the hardwire option in
A mate had the Airlink box you just plug in, and that made a worthwhile improvement in his system.
Safety aspects of these have been discussed to death, short version if you have double pole RCBO protection on both primary and secondary windings you'll be fine. Not worth doing it otherwise.
The tripswitches in your consumer unit will probably trip first should anything happen anyway, but safety first.
Wouldn't reccommend a hardwired unit without double protection, even despite the CU tripping.
Dont dick around with electricity folks, not worth it for hifi.
Very worthwhile sound improvement, as used in many recording studios around the world.
Just know what your doing with them.
@Mark
The higher rated ones are said to have lower impedance, the larger rated ones are big buggers though due to larger transformer.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
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