limited outlets in wall and need for electricity


Hi,

I was hoping to get advice on what to do when your amp, preamp, and cd player's owner's manual all say to plug their equipment directly into the outlet and you only have room for two of them. Is there a product that is recommended? Do you just use one of those extra outlet strips?

Michael
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I second Viggen on VenHaus's Power Box. This weekend Lak brought his Flavor 4 power cord (VH uses it in the Power Box) and it outperformed everything else I've had in my system. It is extremely quiet, detailed, with tight, clear, deep bass, clean wide soundstage and no audible bandwith limiting. With the parallel filtration option, VenHaus' box should be something really special...

I've tried the BMI Whale and Shark cords and found them to be easily bested by the Absolute Power Cord ($40). The BMI's are colored, bandwith limiting and bloat the bass. My reference cord has been a Jena Labs cryo'ed Tice PC3 with a Highwire Wirewrap tuning device attached.
"I've tried the BMI Whale and Shark cords and found them to be easily bested by the Absolute Power Cord ($40)."

In my opinion they were bested by an Absolute *cryo'd* power cord, using a power delivery system that is very well isolated and superior at Psychicanimal's townhouse.

The VH Flavor 4 power cord is excellent and can compete with the big boys at a fraction of their cost.
Remember gents....power cabling and line conditioning products are *very* system and component dependent. What may work incredibly well with some gear may not do so well with others. There are material interactions and power supply interactions going on here, with no set guidelines or carved-in-stone formulas. As always, try before you buy.
It would probably be cheaper to call an electrician and have more outlets installed than buying a box full of outlets.......Use some decent outlets and 10ga solid core Romex .........Have another circuit pulled off the same phase as the current one in the room and use it for digital and use the first one for analog............
If you don't want to run dedicated lines (or it's impractical) you can gang together multiple outlets and have a nice clean install with minimal fuss and very low cost. I had the same challenge as you're facing, I added three more outlets. Having room to plug in eight components behind your rack is handy and requires very little in the way of electrical knowledge. Is it as good as running multiple dedicated lines? I'm sure it's not but ripping up a bunch of walls to run new lines wasn't practical, this is a good compromise. Good luck, Jeff