I would offer - if going to the trouble of upgrading the in-wall path to the audio room, why not cleanup/upgrade your electrical grid for the entire house. My panels were 20+ yrs old and the cheapest contractor grade material, the wall outlets the same. The grounding was a very poor short spike. Having two dedicated lines to the room put in was great - but cleaning up the entire path was money well spent. The last two pages of Vince's paper sums it up well; in the paper, he also covers the in-wall path well. A worthy read.....
Designer in wall wiring - worth it?
I have two dedicated outlets for my system using standard 12 gauge with short runs of about 15' to the breaker box. I used 12 gauge in this case due to the very short runs. I have recently experienced some very positive results with Audience speaker and ethernet cables, and it got me thinking it would not be crazy money to try the Audience in-wall shielded 10 gauge cable. Has anyone tried the Audience cable or other "designer" AC cabling? Did you find it to be a significant upgrade?
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@zlone here’s an idea…run 2 dedicated lines. One with hidden treasure one with romex. Terminate both with same outlets. Compare and let us know. I have 2 dedicated lines using romex copper 12awg. Each terminated with Furutech GTX-D Rhodium and Shunyata. I’ll add that I do not like every Audience cable and the only ones that stood the test of time are the FrontRow speaker cables and the Hidden Treasure Ethernet cable. I got rid od Audience power cords and I absolutely didn’t like the interconnects (au24sx and frontrow). Personally, I would not limit myself with a dedicated line that uses audiophile cables. I would run romex as well. Just in case. |
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