Current Underrated

[Ruphus]

FWIW

Talked to a developing engineer of a boutique gear manufacturer yesterday. Got tons of info, too much for bozo me to grasp it all, but nevertheless very interesting.

Seems electrics and electronics are incredibly complex, too much for laymen to remotely gather.

Like when you put a new device into your chain and suddenly experience raised noise floor. You´d conclude it should be the new device, but it could be one of the old ones instead etc.pp. ( Feedings devices capacitors asymmetrical offset or thelike ... )

You remember how the guys were slaughtered in the AC cable thread?

Well the esotheric prices for good cables certainly are BS, but the practice of better cables mustn´t be.
The man said that it wouldn´t be advisable to talk about such things officially, because people would think one to be crazy, but he even found that yes, AC cables quality does effect.
He said that he had been thinking of such as esotheric nonesense himself and that he had been surprised to find out things like that during diverse installations.
According to that widening of the path even after the bottlenecks before the wall socket can indeed improve things to a certain degree, though not ideal yet.

Anyway, the alarming point to my ears was that current in general effects the audio more than obviously considered within the audio community ( except naturally major studios who order audiophile electricians to layout the supply for their studios.)

The man said that you might get yourself the best devices and yet never achieve the expected lushness / boldness simply if the current specs ain´t up to task.

Ideal would be total crazyness like getting yourself heavy current to your house and start from there, with special transformation and separate circuits, separate potential for the analog gear blablablabla.

A thing most of us can´t afford, but it could be worth to work things out at least up from the fuse box. And if positioned in the ground floor of the building maybe take the opportunity and arrange a separate grounding etc.

What I want to pass on here is the advice to ask ( other ) pro studios if they can recommend a specialized electrician for your studio jobs.
Because for the average electrician without audio experience this would all only be ... esotherics, right.

Ruphus