Out The Mains Conditioner, Into The........

[icehockeyboy]

We'll I hope it isn't the fire....caused by a lightening hit!

I'm re trying how the Lyngdorf sounds straight into the mains, as a fair few recommend.

The first time I did it some years back, I don't believe I could hear any improvement at all, but this time......well.....unless I'm imagining it, I do think it's slightly better, bass is a little tighter, and the hi hat certainly seems a little more prominent on the Larry Carlton track I'm listening to.

A concern is actually about it now having no surge protection as offered by The Belkin, should I be worried?

[Effem]

We'll I hope it isn't the fire....caused by a lightening hit!

I do think it's slightly better, bass is a little tighter, and the hi hat certainly seems a little more prominent on the Larry Carlton track I'm listening to.

A concern is actually about it now having no surge protection as offered by The Belkin, should I be worried?

In a perverse way you have answered your own question Craig.

You choose between the words I have underlined and the consequences of having another lightning hit and your Lyngdorf being turned into smouldering wreck :eek:

[icehockeyboy]

Yeah....see your point Frank, by coincidence it's one of your old KK leads that I'm using.

But when did I say I have previously say I'd had a lightening hit? :scratch:

[Effem]

Yeah....see your point Frank, by coincidence it's one of your old KK leads that I'm using.

But when did I say I have previously say I'd had a lightening hit? :scratch:

The first line in your first post says "lightening hit"(SIC) so I assume your Belkin took it and the amp survived. Or have I got it wrong? :scratch:

Incidentally it "lightning" for big electric from sky, "lightening" is when it's gone pale :lol:

[Ali Tait]

Aye, same as everyone now seems to spell "lose" as "loose" on the internet these days. Drives me nuts.

Rant over. Ah, that's better. :D

[icehockeyboy]

Spelling error noted! :)

And no, I was only saying about a possible lightning hit, and using it to finish that old saying of out of the frying pan....into the.....see?
Except I said out of the mains conditioner. :)

So who here plugs their amp straight into the wall socket?

[Haselsh1]

Spelling error noted! :)

And no, I was only saying about a possible lightning hit, and using it to finish that old saying of out of the frying pan....into the.....see?
Except I said out of the mains conditioner. :)

So who here plugs their amp straight into the wall socket?

I use bridged and monoblocked Rotel RB850's and I plug them straight into separate wall sockets. I would never plug power amps into a surge protected socket or any other kind of socket as to me, it just doesn't seem right but I cannot say why...! Sorry I can't add more to your thread.

[icehockeyboy]

I use bridged and monoblocked Rotel RB850's and I plug them straight into separate wall sockets. I would never plug power amps into a surge protected socket or any other kind of socket as to me, it just doesn't seem right but I cannot say why...! Sorry I can't add more to your thread.

That's alright Shaun, but can you enlarge the size of your type please?

[icehockeyboy]

Aye, same as everyone now seems to spell "lose" as "loose" on the internet these days. Drives me nuts.

Rant over. Ah, that's better. :D

Not as bad as 'could of' when they mean 'could have! '

[Barry]

Spelling error noted! :)

And no, I was only saying about a possible lightning hit, and using it to finish that old saying of out of the frying pan....into the.....see?
Except I said out of the mains conditioner. :)

So who here plugs their amp straight into the wall socket?

Frankly nothing will protect your equipment from a direct lightning strike. What your mains conditioner can do is to protect your gear from an over-voltage spike that might be caused by a lightning strike to the overhead transmission lines, though usually the circuit breakers in the substation will operate before any damage is done.

[Ali Tait]

Most substations now have surge arresters fitted on both HV and LV sides of the transformers. These are sacrificial, a fact I know only too well, as I was standing about 5 metres away from a set when they passed a fault current. Reckon I lost about 10 years of my life. Never seen a Scottish Power engineer run so fast...

Then I had work until 4.00 am the following morning to replace the bloody things.

[jandl100]

So who here plugs their amp straight into the wall socket?

Depends on the amp.

Smaller ones - up to say 50 or 100wpc are fine from my AG1500 mains regenerator (which also offers over voltage protection), but my old Krell, for e.g., (high current and circa 330wpc) sounded pish that way and I always fed her direct from the wall socket. The Chameleon Ruby power amp that is finding favour at the moment sounds better from the AG1500 and is 200wpc. So .... :scratch: .... try it and see!

[icehockeyboy]

I believe......and that's the right word to use, as opposed to, I know it's slightly better. ;)
Does that make sense?