I was told by an electrician that my wall outlet was star wired and wireworld matrix2 power strip is also known to be star wired. However, I found a picture of inner part of wwm2 online, and it doesnât seem to be properly star wired. Would you please take a look at the picture that I post and let me know if it is adequate?
Also, I would like your opinions on the wireworld matrix2 power strip. Could this be the bottleneck of my system? The only other power strip Iâve tried on my system was isotekâs evo5 polaris, and it felt like it was taking away top and bottom part of dynamic range. Do you have any power distribution that you recommend? I am wondering if I need to invest much money in power distribution since only naim box plugged into is napsc.
WWMatrix2 is a potential bottleneck, the photo shows its cheaply made.
You donât mention what part of the world you are, UK, EU, USA/Can Aus/NZ
As for what is better, thats a long list of brand/models with a wide budget range.
Iâve tried a few and frankly was not impressed, with one or two exceptions.
Lots of posts advise and opinions if you search the forum.
I am an avid home build fan but not a fan of over priced exotica in plugs sockets and cables.
My 8 way distribution board is made with normal commercial grade sockets from MK, power to the board starts with a Furutech FI-1363 13A plug, H07RN-F 4mm/2 cable, a purpose made junction box from which the L, N & E are wired in radial (star).
The Naim and other boxes are also supplied with my own built cables.
I am in South Korea, we use schuko plugs here.
I have searched the forum, but ones with positive feedback seem to be expensive. I am not sure I need to invest much in power distribution because all my naim boxes except napsc are plugged into walls. Dealers here donât have many power strips or blocks for loan. I invested quite a lot in power cables because they were available for loan for home demo, and I was surprised with uplift they brought to my system.
Oh my goodness that is rubbish made I wouldnât have it plugged into my house.
Bloody twist connectors Nasty.
Your money your house they probably meter ok like most rubbish does .
I solved all of my disappointment about cheap fudges by making my own from the regulation recommended components that fit in the UK wall to start with.
There are many posts and threads about it in the search function.
Or Browse my previous posts.
Building on Skepikalâs advice, I have just re built the power leads to my SN3, HiCap & CD5Si. They were far too long for my set up. I have kept the original cables and the moulded plug so I can reverse out if ever needed.
So, bought the Martin Kaiser IEC connectors that Skeptical recommended and some decent 1.75mm diameter cable. Wired up to the existing Naim Powerline Lite plugs and kept the leads to 0.75 M.
Observations
1 The Powerline lite plugs are well engineered and easy to connect
2 The original Naim leads and moulded IECs donât look much better than a standard kettle lead
3 0.75 M leads are easy to dress and avoid contact with other components
4 Not sure if itâs the thicker cable or the better IECs but the outcome is a significant step up in clarity and soundstage for an outlay of ÂŁ30.00 and an afternoon fiddling with cables and connectors . Improved for vinyl, CD and streaming
5 The Martin Kaiser IEC plugs are a bargain and very well engineered
Seriously? Youâre using power cables that amount to very many thousands of pounds in the UK (ÂŁ5-7kâish) with an entry level power block that sells for ÂŁ150?
If youâre using Schuko then take a look at something from Shunyata; V16 perhaps?
I couldnât agree with you more. I picked up a decent power block today, SoTM mt-1000, which was recommended by another member here. Very satisfied so far. I use their LAN isolators, a network switch, and DC power supplies. All great stuff.
WOW !!! thats a rats nest to be sure.
Have you not thought about tidying it up?
You spend a lot of money on possible minor improvemnts from power cables but it looks like youâre not concerned by the very real issue of signal path interference from cables running all over.
It looks pretty bad in the picture, but none of the cables are touching each other and burndy and snaics are hanging freely at least. I am concerned that some of cables are touching the floor, but no idea how to avoid when so many cables present in limited space. Any suggestion?
My way is not to use ready made cables.
I select only the better specâd signal, speaker and power cables and add good quality plug/socket parts and make my own. My only exception is ethernet (for good reason)
Naim design the equipment to maximise the distance internally between power and signal. This distance is carried through to the power inlet and the signal DINâs and RCAâs, this helps all users at least get started right.
I take it further by making the cables the right length to connect to each component, thus avoiding touching each other or floors and walls.
Some prefer to keep cable the âcorrectâ length (as supplied) but I have done a lot of experimentation with signal cable lengths and I did not find any SQ variations to support this.
Whatever, I do it my way and thatâs the way itâll be for me.
(I will attach a picture when I return home on Wednesday)
The Ethernet Ferrite was an experiment & is no longer installed.
I have been incredibly happy with a couple of these for about 20 years.
Theyâre very nicely made, they are I believe star earthed and very sensibly priced.
I have also used a Grahamâs Hydra for just the Naim part of my system, it too is excellent.
My experience with stupidly expensive mains cabling is that much of it is smoke and mirrors and sensible good quality engineering is all that is required.
They are star (correctly called radial wired) on all, Live, Neutral & Earth.
I found the Hydra concept didnât suit my setup
I agree nicely made with sensible engineering and +1 the other bit about smoke & mirrors.
I am interested in getting these. I would like to know if leaving unused sockets would have any performance degredation or safety concern considering these are unswitched sockets?
Also would it be ok to plug non naim equipment into these as they do not recommend it with the hydra?
These are clearly made from regular off-the-shelf mains sockets, but the âmetalcladâ versions which are intended for use where extra durability is required. How Grahams have wired them I wouldnât know.
Switches on sockets are more for convenience that safety, and are not a safety requirement as such. Plenty of regular mains extension blocks are unswitched.
