Dedicated 20 amp circuit - Electrician laughed!


I brought my electrician out to my house today to show him where I would like to install a dedicated 20a circuit for my system.  He laughed and said that's the stupidest thing he's heard and laughs when people talk about it.  It said, if you're going to do it, you have to have it separately grounded (shoving a new 8 foot rod into the ground) but even then, he sees no way there can be an audible improvement.

Now, he's not just an electrician though. He rebuilds tube amps on the side and tears apart amps and such all the time so he's quite well versed in audio electronics and how they operate.

He basically said anyone who thinks they hear a difference is fooling themselves.  

Personally, I'm still not sure, I'm no engineer, my room's not perfect, and I can't spend hours on end critical listening...  But, he does kinda pull me farther to the "snake oil" side and the "suggestive hearing" side (aka, you hear an improvement because you want to hear it).

I'm not taking a side here but I thought it was interesting how definitive he was that this not only WILL not make a difference but ALMOST CANNOT make a difference. 
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I actually have experience with this! Had a very nice large A.B.B. control system installed at a storm water station and any little thing would send it into alarm. What we did not know was if you have anything on the circuit with capacitors or high on off frequency you will get ringing in the circuit and cause frequency distortion. Turns out hospitals, inspection terminals and microwaves will do this. So, with all that said the electrician is wrong and their is a gain to having a clean, dedicated circuit for you system. 
I have I dedicated line for each of my Pass Labs mono blocks and a third for my digital kit.  Also a dedicated earth rod direct into my garden.   I heard the difference.   If I move house I will definitely do this for my Hifi .    And cheap compared to the price of my components.  
Let's face it, there are people who can't hear as well as others can. And there's a fair amount of training of the ears as far as the audiophile journey goes. I'd compare it to the way an artist experiences the art of others as opposed to some poor slob looking at a pretty picture.

Those people laugh and even ridicule sometimes. Who cares! Sometimes I don't know whether to feel sorry for them or envy them. But I like this hobby, and listening to and enjoying my system and my attempts to improve it make me happy.

I'm in the process of putting in an independent ground to my system. I can't tell you how much improvement it will make as yet, but I'm looking forward to finding out. (Putting in a dedicated circuit isn't an option at this point.)

Good luck.
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I’ve done isolated/home-run dedicated circuits for high power pro installs.

Makes all the sense in the world, when the peak draw might and does easily hit/peak at 2500-4000 watts per run line. (eg, double 18" JBL bins per bridged amp, etc). Keeps noise down, and keeps the transients clean.

A house system that really cooks... and is set up so the bands passing though get the best acoustics and the best electrics they’ve ever dealt with.

Gotta keep the beer fridges, lighting, etc, on separate lines.... and a on a separate panel, if at all possible.

And always advised show runners to have an electrician come in and check the connectivity quality of all the lines to be used in all the rooms that are slated to have gear demo’d in them. Reset all breakers, re-set all screw connections for the given power for each line, grounds re-seated as well. Some of those lines/grounds have not been serviced in a decade or more. (depending on the given hotel)

This make a huge difference, overall, for the given audio show. People notice noise, but they don’t notice the absence of noise, so it’s difficult to quantify, for the average Joe. Except to note that the given audio show seems to have gone well.

and bring incandescent bulbs to the show and replace the led and ccfl bulbs in the given room you demo in.

the resistive filaments in the incandescent bulbs will lower/dissipate peak HF line noise and help stabilize the specific line in use. a great secret weapon, that most won’t even ’get’. Eyeballs/brains/minds are also a lot happier (unconsciously so) with incandescent bulbs in play.

This is quality audio created by the cumulative inch, where it adds up to feet of quality increase, when you do it right.