In my opinion, the gauge of the cable is far less important than the design.
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That’s where I landed too.
When you have a ground loop, you’ll change your mind. Ground loops are pure DCR, not the design which is usually centered on the ingress / ergess mitigation techniques.
Best,
Galen
?? So if I have a ground loop issue (I never have), I can solve the problem with a larger gauge power cord?
Ron,
In a short answer, no, if it is an AC system ground and not within your system. Seldom is a power cable the cause in the signal portion. This is one reason balanced system are good, they use a FLOATING signal ground that is separate from the power supply side earth ground.
A power line ground loop is usually a bad system ground in your house wiring. A low DCR power cord is a fractional help in keeping the lifted ground to a minimum, it can only mitigate the “added” ground imbalance from the wall. If you use 10 AWG now and have issues, it is DEFINITELY in your wall or a really bad AC splitter panel.
We tend to ignore the reality of the house ground. Some are far better than others. A power cable does ZERO to fix what is there, it just doesn’t make it worse. A power cord can only add less to the ground differential voltage potential until we have a “negative” resistance cable (ha!). The noise stuff is off to the side of the grounding.
There is very good reason that TIA/EIA and ANSI specs exist for grounding. You can’t fix it downstream of the problem very easily in complex circuits. Sure, a simple system might use an isolation transformer to create a new “ground” but it is just hiding from the problem that is always watching for the one misplaced wire.
The ground voltage offset will always find the path of LEAST resistance back to earth. EVERY system has some ground imbalance because we use WIRE with DCR values to connect everything up.
Best,
Galen
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After many years, Iconoclast decided to join the “social media.” Starting today, we now have a Facebook presence thanks to the efforts of Jeff. I would have done it myself but spent so much time in “Facebook Jail” that I finally closed my account a couple of years ago. Instagram comes to mind for the next step.
Everyone is invited to stop by and say hello. You are encouraged to make suggestions as to what, when and where you think we might benefit the hobby and industry within the social media boundaries.
This site and our hosts at PS Audio have been so kind and gracious to allow us to be here. PS Audio has for the most part been our only home. Look at the years and look at the posts. Lots and lots of discussion. And of course we are going nowhere from our home on PS Audio. Thank you Elk!!
You have all single handedly been our growth and helped to build a name in the industry. We are so very grateful! It does of course, help, to have the best cable designer on the planet, the best manufacturing partner on the planet and in the USA, Belden, and the best techs (Andrew and Jeff.)
Please keep up the great conversation and participation!
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Congrats to you and the team Bob!
I’ll just add that I appreciate you maintaining your presence here, as I’m not a FB user. (I have an account. Haven’t logged in for years…)
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What is this thing Facebook?
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Thank you Mike! Hope you and family are doing well.
LOL! My kind of answer!
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If anyone has written a review here and can repost it on the Facebook page I would be very grateful. There is a section for ‘business reviews’ that allows you to rate the business and leave a review- this is separate from a direct post or comment. Still learning how all this works, I’m a ‘working with my hands’ kind of guy so internet jargon is a little intimidating.
I was going to review here, but did on the new facebook group instead. Thanks!
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Would you mind posting it here as well? Some of us don’t Facebook.
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Ditto
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Amen!
This site is the only Social Media I indulge in because, well, it has somehow remained “sociable.”
But, Bob, feel free to copy the review I did on the latest speaker cables to FB
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No Facebook / Bragbook / Bitchbook for me either.
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I might be interested in Bitchbook.
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Not that kind of Bitche 
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…or Tikpage, or Mygram or…
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