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Dedicated AC Line Concern

Posted by 1973shovel (A) on June 11, 2007 at 00:24:42

I had an electrician install a dedicated AC line to my listening room last week, after reading about the benefits on this forum.

He used 12 ga. armored cable, run outside the garage wall, which backs up to my room. It's only a short run from the breaker to my listening room, perhaps ten feet. Here is my concern. Instead of using one continueous run of wire, he made two splices inside junction boxes he added. He said this was to follow code.

Being the good anal audiophile that I am, after he left I shut off the new breaker, removed the wire nuts on the splices, Wonder soldered the connections, and re-installed the wire nuts.

I'm still not comfortable though, still feeling that one continueous run would have been better than one with junctions.

Is worrying about this a waste of time? As it was the electrician thought I was nuts. While he had the main power off I went in and cleaned the hot tab where the new breaker was going with Caig de-ox, then alcohol. He said he'd never seen anything like that in twenty years of stringing wire. Welcome to audio-land, Mr. Electrician!

So, should I redo the line with one continuous set of wires or leave it alone?

Thanks for any input.

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