Infrastructure Improvements

Posted by: Keleigh on 23 December 2007

Hi, my plan for 2008 is to continue with infrastructure improvements to my kit. Now it can all sit on my Hutter stand i am planning a dedicated mains spur. I am still intrigued to know if a seperate spur terminated in several wall plug sockets will be better than a spur with one wall socket and a three-way Grahams Hydra? Surely the Hydra cannot better the three seperate Naim power leads as at present?

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by Adam Meredith

This has been discussed - have a search.

Try "separate hydra" as a starting point.

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by Keleigh

Thank you Adam (out of interest can i just ask what the difference is between your role ansd that of the moderators?)

To refine, I realise that people think the Hydra to be (with apologies to James May) a 'good thing'. However i am still uncertain as to why one, splitting power lead should provide a purer quality mains than dedicated power leads to each piece of equipment??

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by hungryhalibut

There are probably as many different opinions on this as there are people with mains spurs. All I can say is that my single 10mm spur, with its own consumer unit, and a five-way hydra works very well.

Nigel

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by FangfossFlyer

And for me a separate spurs for my NAC, NAP and Lingo2 with their own consumer unit sounds the best.

Richard

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by andy c

.and IMHO seperate spurs sounds better than single spur into a hydra - and yes i have tried the diff options...

Posted on: 23 December 2007 by Stephen Tate

Surley we mean dedicated radial mains feeds here.
A spur is something that spurs off a ringmain feed isn't it?

sorry to be pedantic.

Greetings, Steve