#Analog leadertask generator#
#Analog leadertask series#

#Analog leadertask generator#

While the two collaborated on my project and may occasionally work together again ('sort of like Mick and Keith,' DeVito joked), they later told me that they've started operating independently see footnote 2 for their contact information.īy the time Hungerford and DeVito emailed, I'd already arranged with my auxiliary generator contractor to bypass the transfer switch with a direct line from the meter box to a new, dedicated subpanel in the utility room adjacent to my listening space. Both are obsessed with electrical infrastructure quality, and they're eager to spread the electrical-upgrade gospel.

#Analog leadertask series#

DeVito owns commercial fishery businesses in Alaska and Maine and is also a high-performance audio dealer, specializing in power-related products including his own Audio-Ultra Performance Series Power Distribution box. Hungerford is a master electrician, licensed in Washington state. They offered to fly in from their Seattle-area home base to investigate. Last winter, Hungerford and DeVito emailed me, having read about my electricity issues in those previous columns. But the regenerators merely masked the problem I needed a 'ground up' solution, no pun intended. Two PS Audio Power Plant AC regenerators got me through, a P15 and a P20many thanks to PS Audio for the loan. It was, as Powell described it, the 'straw that broke the camel's back.' The transfer switch inserted in the line damaged the sound to the point where reviewing audio equipment would have been impossible. But I had put the problem on hold until, for reasons unrelated to audio performance, I installed a backup generator (footnote 1). I had tried many times to troubleshoot and fix my ground-loop problem once, I even sought help from a highly regarded New York City studio-tech wizard. You'd think the ground potential would be almost nothing between two sets of adjacent AC jacks on the same circuit, but the ground potential between the jacks remained unusually high, and the hum wasn't gone. Bradley is a local electrician and audio enthusiast who has done electrical work for me in the past, including replacing dedicated linesone for the low-power signal components and another for the amplifierswith a single line, hoping that might solve years of annoying ground hum and other noise issues. Garth Powell, a name familiar to many Stereophile readers, is AudioQuest's electricity guru and designer of the Niagara series of power conditioners he is also responsible for the company's line of AC and signal cables. Rex Hungerford, Edward DeVito, and Craig Bradley rode into town last week and, together with Audioquest's Garth Powell, solved all the electrical problems that have plagued my audio system for years.

A 50-year-old corroded meter box with aluminum wire.