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RE: What do you consider an isolated power setup?

In my case, the full audio system feeds off isolated power conditioning units. Nothing fancy though, largely OneAC medical grade stuff. When I go on "best listening mode", even the ethernet hookups are taken off (I don't do wireless either).

The power isolation helped achieve a significant SQ/imaging jump long ago. Not as obvious with the present Maggies, which are not as tweaked as my previous ones, but resulting in often solid 3D imaging within a (walls-erasing) huge soundstage. To be sure, not everyone can perceive this. However, those who can, will notice that something is amiss if power isolation is off when they return at another time. If playing something they know well, some of them even point to the space where things were expected to be, and no longer are.

That said, there no such thing as full isolation, which I am sure you know. Thus, one fights the macro noise sources and also tends to the less obvious ones. When I do even a little more, the ears usually confirm the fruits of labor.

Along with many other inmates, Dawnrazor and I have tried some radical ideas over the years. Some work and others don't but the average still favors having tried. Which is why the "Salt" deserves to be tried, me thinks. :)

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