Quality vs. Quantity

Posted by Quiet Earth on February 14, 2006 at 14:28:38

In Reply to: Balanced AC Distribution Advice Sought posted by RF Guy on February 14, 2006 at 09:09:29:

I realize that the intention of multiple xformers is to share the load and also to save money by using what parts you have on hand. But you know what's going to happen once you get a taste of this. You're going to go for another round at it. Why not just get a really nice Xformer that can handle the load? I guess your biggest challenge is the monoblocks and their power consumption. What is their AC power consumption anyway? 500 watts at idle? It would be helpful to know. Here's where I'm going with this.

I think that it's best to have one balanced transformer for everything and short power cords feeding all of the components. But my experience applies to low power amplifiers that only consume 100 AC watts each. (And a low budget home recording studio with low wattage gear hooked into an AC Xformer.) I have tried the multiple transformer thing before, one for the sources, one for the amps. (One for the instruments, one for the A/D converter and recorder). I prefer it all hooked up to one. Again, with short power cords coming out of the transformer.

If it were me I would persue a higher quality transformer verses a bunch of lesser quality ones distributed to share the load. That's probably where you'll end up anyway.

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Topic - Balanced AC Distribution Advice Sought - RF Guy 09:09:29 02/14/06 (16)

Quality vs. Quantity - Quiet Earth 14:28:38 02/14/06 (3)

Re: Quality vs. Quantity - pkell44 08:29:59 02/15/06 (1)

Thanks for that. - Quiet Earth 12:06:22 02/15/06 (0)

Re: Quality vs. Quantity - RF Guy 19:41:04 02/14/06 (0)

DANGER DANGER DANGER!!!! - Tweekeng 12:42:59 02/14/06 (7)

Re: DANGER DANGER DANGER!!!! - RF Guy 19:24:46 02/14/06 (6)

Re: DANGER DANGER DANGER!!!! - Soundripples 08:30:08 02/17/06 (1)

Re: DANGER DANGER DANGER!!!! - RF Guy 11:07:58 02/20/06 (0)

Good to hear you know what you are doing. - Tweekeng 20:54:59 02/14/06 (3)

Re: Good to hear you know what you are doing. - RF Guy 06:50:48 02/15/06 (2)

Testing AC polarity... - jea48 15:26:54 02/15/06 (1)

Re: Testing AC polarity... - RF Guy 07:30:32 02/16/06 (0)

Re: Balanced AC Distribution Advice Sought - pkell44 10:29:53 02/14/06 (3)

Re: Balanced AC Distribution Advice Sought - RF Guy 10:39:56 02/14/06 (2)

Balanced Power at Jon Risch's Website - pmkap 17:18:20 02/14/06 (0)

Re: Balanced AC Distribution Advice Sought - pkell44 15:43:38 02/14/06 (0)

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Quality vs. Quantity - Quiet Earth 14:28:38 02/14/06 (3)

Re: Quality vs. Quantity - pkell44 08:29:59 02/15/06 (1)

Thanks for that. - Quiet Earth 12:06:22 02/15/06 (0)

Re: Quality vs. Quantity - RF Guy 19:41:04 02/14/06 (0)

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