Balls to the Wall: Going All Out With Your AC Line!

[MylesBAstor]

Some of us are limited that live in apartments or other situations are limited in what we can do as far as "completely" addressing AC line issue. But for audiophiles with homes, etc., there's another big step that one can take in ensuring AC line issues, grounding, etc. doesn't affect and degrade the sound of our system. And that is the electricity coming to the house. Years ago (probably mid '90s?), Dan D'Agostino addressed a meeting of the Westchester Audio Society on exactly this topic. He talked about not only replacing electrical panels in the room but removing, if possible, the inductive Aluminum wiring that comes from the pole to your house. I've been to some homes, Mike Malinowski's out in PA sticks out in my mind, where he spared no expense in addressing all the AC line concerns and issues for his system.

Chris just posted what he has recently done for his system and would love if others could share their experiences with the members on what they've done and costs involved. Know some use the Equi-tech panels but I wonder what other products might be out there on the market and how they might compare?

[cpp]

2 New panels,, The electrician had to rebuild one service panel $1250) including some new runs. dedicated 20 amp service to two listening areas, and the power company using a megger identified a weak ground and added 10 additional feet of ground rod, .Added,whole house surge protection, whole house backup gen. Central Fla is a killer for lightning storms and power interruptions.

[Bruce B]

Building the studio, we probably sunk about $50k into the electrical. We did have a custom cable built from the street to the house and then to the Equi=tech wall panel.
We used about 1200' of JPS Labs in-wall cable and connected to the Oyaide R1 receptacles by crimping/soldering gold spades so they would fit. We made sure all the cables behind the wall we're laid out so there was no interaction with other cables/equipment. I believe a system lives or dies by the infrastructure!

[MylesBAstor]

Building the studio, we probably sunk about $50k into the electrical. We did have a custom cable built from the street to the house and then to the Equi=tech wall panel.
We used about 1200' of JPS Labs in-wall cable and connected to the Oyaide R1 receptacles by crimping/soldering gold spades so they would fit. We made sure all the cables behind the wall we're laid out so there was no interaction with other cables/equipment. I believe a system lives or dies by the infrastructure!

Some project! What type of wire did you use from the pole to your studio?