Electrical fields


I am thinking of moving my equipment rack to a different side of my listening room (which is in my basement). Just when I find the perfect spot, I realize it is only a couple feet from my house electrical breaker box (150amp service-power company meter in the basement next to the box). How far would I need to be, or what could I use to shield the box, to prevent any electrical field from it affecting my component rack/cable runs?

Thanks.
Art
aveloguy
You should be good to go at 2', particularly if the cabinent of your breaker box is made from steel. If you want more shielding, any steel that a magnet sticks to will work.
With industrial equipment, you sometimes see conductors or busswork carrying hundreds or thousands of amps located within your 2' of computer equipment and/or very sensitive low level input signal terminations. Stay away from running stereo cables in parallel with current carrying conductors & you should be fine.
The impact of electrical field is halved every time the space or distance is doubled. I would not get anywhere near 2' from the box. I'm about 25' from the box and that's plenty close enough!

Get as far away as is reasonably possible.
Hmm, it seems there are varying opinions. This should be a simple matter for a someone with a EE or physics degree. Neither of which I have. I guess once test is to move the stuff and then listen!