Spur not Ring

I refer to the following post which was made on another thread :

Spur not Ring

- A spur is very different to a normal ring main: you have a much heavier-duty supply, hence more transient power capability (a 32A ring is only 2.5mm2 whereas a 32A spur is 6mm2 - Naim poweramps are greedy for those extra amps...).
- Other equipment will cause a far more significant voltage drop on a small mm2 supply (i.e. ordinary ring) than they can on the main supply you have coming into the consumer unit

- Also you don't have nasty loops, particularly with the earth, which can generate nasty constant humming.

- Whilst noise can travel via the consumer unit, it is far less significant than if the noisy unit is on the same supply. This is easily demonstrated by plugging something noisy (such as a freezer or hairdryer) and listening for clicks. This is, however, only the most obvious aspect of noise - switched-mode powersupplies (e.g. computers) kick out all sorts of high-frequency rubbish that the traditional Naim powersupply design just lets straight through, causing lots of unnecessary and thus audibily damaging work to be done by the pre-amp and amps. Again, a seperate spur reduces this, as the noise spends most of its time running around its own little ring (electrons like to take the simplest route, but lets not get into quantum mechanics...)

- Yes there is lots of Voodoo in HiFi, but this is one of those things that in 99% of houses will make a significant difference in overall cleanliness and clarity.


Anyway, without trying to be rude or patronising, a domestic electrician is trained to a basic level, with a strong emphasis on following detailed guidelines and straightforward practical techniques - their theoretical grounding is little more than ohms law : to take a similar example, Newtonian Physics is fine for throwing a ball, but you wouldn't want to go to the moon without adding Einstinian Relativity...

I have worked with many electricians who have been working for 20-40 years and never had to deal with 3-phase beyond the incomer board, and that's far more fundamental than what we're discussing! (they are quite happy to let worry about the maths of layout and load-balancing, and I wouldn't dream of telling them how to run a cable or wire a plug!)

End of quote.

Now I am having an electrician install two seperate spurs (rings ?) in my living room for the system. Does that mean that for best results I should ask him to install what he was planning to, only with thicker cable, and if yes, how thick, or is there more to this that I didn't get ?

I am totally useless with this kind of issue, and I don't even really know what many terms refer to, so please keep this in mind when answering ! El layman here !

Thanks,

Edouard S.