encouragement for dedicated spur installation in switzerland
Posted by: rocketeer on 23 February 2004
hello everybody
recently, i called up the nearest electrician and asked him about a single spur installation. to my surprise, he told me that he had done this before for "audiophile" customers, and instantly agreed to pass by for checking the situation in my rental flat. this afternoon, the installation was done (in the limits of law).
a new fuse socket was installed within the existing consumer unit. the new spur had to be routed through the existing duct in the walls. additionally, wires which lead through the same duct as the new spur had to be rewired to another existing fuse socket. only a standard thickness of wire could be routed through the relatively narrow duct, certainly not as thick as described by others here on the forum. finally, the electrician told me that the dedicated spur HAS to comprise a separate live, neutral AND earth lead (you can imagine that i was totally happy about this ;-)). my system now is connected to a music line power bar, which is pluged into a single wall outlet, which again is wired to the spur ( i hope that my english terminology regarding the "spur" topic is not confusing). the installation costed exactly 500 swiss francs, which is about 300 euros, which is about 200 GBP. suprisingly, most of the work was connecting the wires in the consumer unit rather than routing them through the wall.
earlier, i was quite sceptical about such installations, based on my own experimental experience. so, i was very curious to listen to my system after the expert's installation. the system was down for about 5 hours and then powered up for 2 hours before i pressed the play button. what then came to my ears was quite a step beyond my expectations! needless to describe the improvement after about one hour of listening (and after collecting the pieces of my jaw from the floor!), since it was described here in many other spur topics, but i just want to tell everybody again: you cannot imagine how worth it is, till you do such an installation. i can tell for sure that there is no box upgrade in terms of VFM that comes even close to a dedicated spur! i hope that after this post at least people in switzerland are encouraged to call their electricians, since the installation, as done in my flat, does not violate any law and is done within a few hours. the best spent 500 swiss francs in my whole upgrading career!
regards
dimitri
recently, i called up the nearest electrician and asked him about a single spur installation. to my surprise, he told me that he had done this before for "audiophile" customers, and instantly agreed to pass by for checking the situation in my rental flat. this afternoon, the installation was done (in the limits of law).
a new fuse socket was installed within the existing consumer unit. the new spur had to be routed through the existing duct in the walls. additionally, wires which lead through the same duct as the new spur had to be rewired to another existing fuse socket. only a standard thickness of wire could be routed through the relatively narrow duct, certainly not as thick as described by others here on the forum. finally, the electrician told me that the dedicated spur HAS to comprise a separate live, neutral AND earth lead (you can imagine that i was totally happy about this ;-)). my system now is connected to a music line power bar, which is pluged into a single wall outlet, which again is wired to the spur ( i hope that my english terminology regarding the "spur" topic is not confusing). the installation costed exactly 500 swiss francs, which is about 300 euros, which is about 200 GBP. suprisingly, most of the work was connecting the wires in the consumer unit rather than routing them through the wall.
earlier, i was quite sceptical about such installations, based on my own experimental experience. so, i was very curious to listen to my system after the expert's installation. the system was down for about 5 hours and then powered up for 2 hours before i pressed the play button. what then came to my ears was quite a step beyond my expectations! needless to describe the improvement after about one hour of listening (and after collecting the pieces of my jaw from the floor!), since it was described here in many other spur topics, but i just want to tell everybody again: you cannot imagine how worth it is, till you do such an installation. i can tell for sure that there is no box upgrade in terms of VFM that comes even close to a dedicated spur! i hope that after this post at least people in switzerland are encouraged to call their electricians, since the installation, as done in my flat, does not violate any law and is done within a few hours. the best spent 500 swiss francs in my whole upgrading career!
regards
dimitri
Thanks for the details Dimitri!
Some time ago, they opened up the road to fix the water and gas pipes and we had announced interruptions. As they also announced an interrupion in electricity I was not very amused. So I shut down my hifi and plugged it out of the wall in the morning. As I came back in the evening I powered everything back on and was prepared for worse sound (as usual when gone cold). But it was better than before!
The next day I made a fatal error: I asked the electrician out in the building site if they had replaced the mains wires for new ones. He said yes, and I smiled. He was surprised by my reaction and I explained him, that my hifi sounded better now. He didn't look at me like I was from the moon, but at least from neptun!!
I found the website of this german naim dealer as I looked for a Hutter dealer around here (as there is still no distributor in switzerland!). Probably I do a trip to Konstanz in spring.
happy listening
Adrian
Some time ago, they opened up the road to fix the water and gas pipes and we had announced interruptions. As they also announced an interrupion in electricity I was not very amused. So I shut down my hifi and plugged it out of the wall in the morning. As I came back in the evening I powered everything back on and was prepared for worse sound (as usual when gone cold). But it was better than before!
The next day I made a fatal error: I asked the electrician out in the building site if they had replaced the mains wires for new ones. He said yes, and I smiled. He was surprised by my reaction and I explained him, that my hifi sounded better now. He didn't look at me like I was from the moon, but at least from neptun!!
I found the website of this german naim dealer as I looked for a Hutter dealer around here (as there is still no distributor in switzerland!). Probably I do a trip to Konstanz in spring.
happy listening
Adrian