Any Home Made Line Conditioners?

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hitchcaster
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Re: Any Home Made Line Conditioners?

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leaveitalone84 wrote:
Analog Assassin wrote:
Tubetwang wrote:you may want to try the old "plug-a-5-henry-choke-in the-adjacent-inlet-trick" :roll:
Like an amp choke?
Yup. A Hammond 193L Filter Choke. Thats the one most audiophiles use and is closest to the product that the previous Patents Inventor/Distributor uses in his stupid expensive power conditioners.

Just wire it to a 3 prong plug with the ground going to the chokes mounting holes or the chasis it is mounted in. Plug it into the adjacent wall outlet or powerstrip of the equipment you want. You can even wire some outlets after the choke in parallel. Implementing MOV's or other X and Y Caps if you'd like as well.

yeah, i did the hammond choke thing.... easy and not too expensive to try... you have to experiment with this stuff though. one choke sounded best to me and made my guitar amp sound a little better...

then i went big with a balanced transformer and that sounded much better then the choke... choke and balanced sounded worse.... added .47 caps to the balanced and that was the best formula ive heard, but its more expensive and not portable. i bring the hammond choke to some gigs and plug it into my furmen pf pro. btw the choke just plugged into the wall isn't considered "safe" if it shorts for some reason
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