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    Default So what is a grounding box

    As the title what is a grounding box.
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    Good question. I guess it depends on the box. Some seem to go to mains ground. Most don't.
    Either way they seem to produce a reaction
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    They seem to be made differently. All say they improve sound quality.

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    A grounding box is (usually, but not always) a passive box of mixed compounds that attaches to unused input and/or output sockets on the back of ones equipment. The concept is that it provides a low impedance route to 'ground' for the signal, as opposed to the mains.

    However, there are a number of conceptual problems with the above aims. The two primary issues, as I see them are 1/ at some point in any hi-fi system the mains and signal grounds are tied together or the signal ground would be completely floating (this is true in the UK at least where every 13A wall socket has a link directly to ground (the earth pin). 2/ This parasitic ground box would have to have a lower impedance than that presented by the mains earth and this seems unlikely given the compact dimensions of all these accessories.

    Bear in mind though that this a new type of accessory for the audio market (the only market such a thing exists for) and so 'what it is' and 'how it works' are not very well defined concepts.
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    Sounds like foo, I won't trouble myself any further, thank you gentlemen
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    I alway try to keep an open mind to these types of things. As much as I doubt they do anything more than just bunging a wire on to your gear to ground them, but the thing remains that they might. If I had one to try I would but not buying one to try
    Regards,
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    If one comes my way I will try it out - but I'm not yet at the point where I am actively seeking the loan of one and I'm nowhere near a place where I would consider buying one out of interest.
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    My set up sounds so good I don't think I could handle an improvement
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    Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck


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    I have a Russ Andrews 'Power Purifier' grounding box with various additional modules which in addition to grounding also claims to to reject RFI and other stuff. Can't say I notice much/any difference.

    Maybe I have very clean power and negligible RFI or maybe it is all foo.
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    I designed a mains filter which was copied and sold by a man with initials RA when I bought the components from him.
    I think it was called 'the silencer' by him.

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