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Old 18th December 2002   #15
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Originally posted by dave-G
I just don't get it.. When you consider that you've got miles of ancient wire carrying the stuff to your house, and hundreds of feet of romex or knob-and-tube wire getting to the plug.... i dunno. Sure, there's the wider pipe, deeper river analogies... and somehow those final 3 feet matter?
I'm totally with you. The only thing that seems to make a lot of sense are the balanced power boxes like the Furman and Eqitech's because they actually have transformers in there to isolate and clean up dirty power. Sometimes they make a huge difference, sometimes they don't.
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