Which gear to ground?


How important is it to electrically ground all the gears in an audio system? Some amps (e.g. Audiolabs) do not require grounding while most CD players come with an ungrounded power cord. Does it mean that the CD players do not need to be grounded?
I am in the process of making DIY power cords for my second system and your inputs will help.
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Showing 1 response by stehno

From a safety perspective, it's important to ground your components.

With that said, you should notice significant improvements by floating/disconnecting the ground from every component.

Grounding has a way of introducing much noise into the AC.

Not sure why, because the typical ground wire is usually connected directly to the neutral bus at the service panel. Since the neutral wire is already connected to your component (opposite the hot wire), as a non-electrical engineer I am perplexed that the ground wire would introduce any ADDITIONAL noise over and above what noise the neutral wire may already contain.

-IME