Distortion on the Power Line


I have a couple of PS Audio Power Plants.
The distortion off the wall has typically been 3.5 to  4.0.  For the last week it has been over 7%.  I checked around the house and can see no changes.  Anyone have any ideas what it is?  Have Russian Hackers moved in next door?  People huddling at home on their computers?

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Showing 1 response by clearthink

heaudio123"Turn off all the breakers in your house except the one to your PS unit(s), and turn off the equipment connected to the PS. If the distortion is still high, then it’s a local line issue not your feed. You could alternately just turn off all the loads in your house but the breakers are probably fastest. Without any loads, any corrosion, etc. will not impact THD."

This is completely false, erroneous, and even "Dunning Kruger" in nature regarding it’s ignorance and abject failure to understand even the most basic element of the problem described hear. The PS Audio device itself presents a load to the circuit so any defect in that circuit wiring as has been described as a potential by other contributors to this thread such as bad connections could produce the result described by the OP. Dunning Kruger sails again.