Putting this system together over the past several years has been a labor of love. I’ve learned a lot, forgotten most of it, and tried to bs my way through the rest of it.  However, we do truly feel Blessed that we are fortunate enough to own such great equipment (we being my wife and myself… yes, she’s in love with all this too. I think I’ll keep her!) Even when I’m frustrated, trying to track down a ground loop gremlin (we’ve all been there), I remind myself… If this is the “issue” in my life right now; how good do I have it! 

If you are interested in the logistics of how I ran everything, please read on, and I  will attempt to walk you through my current system from beginning to end… If that sort of thing doesn’t interest you, please go strait to looking at the pictures. 

Either way, I hope you enjoy what I’ve put together. 

Thank you for checking it out!

 

It all starts with two 20 amp dedicated circuits coming from the panel, on 10 gage wire to a 30 amp 4 pole outlet. (Like what’s going to your clothes dryer) From there the power travels down a 10 gage cord into the base of our custom built shelving unit. I decided to install the outlets into the base of the unit, rather than in the wall. This is an attempt to clean up some of the “spaghetti” behind the equipment. One circuit runs the power conditioner, and one takes care of the amps. Putting the outlets in the base of the stand also allows me to use .5 meter power cords to the amps/conditioner. Including the sub amp, which Is also built into the shelving unit instead of the sub enclosure. The hope was to eliminate vibration to the circuit board that would have occurred if it was mounted within the sub box. (That’s my concept at least)

A friend of mine had some extra, really nice power cord wire (from Germany) So I purchased some good quality ends, and made my own cords. Again, to clean up the mess, and keep wires as short as possible. I have used Tara Labs interconnects for years, but decided to switch to Inakustic for this iteration of the system. 

(More to come… I have to quit playing on Audiogon, and get to work 😢)