Soft pop from speaker when not in use - should I be concerned

[ChrisSU]

Personally I would do the dedicated mains properly with a single 10mm cable to one socket, and use a mains block from there. A second socket means daisy chaining the cable from one to the other, so one of the sockets has to take two sets of cable which is an extremely tight fit and outside the design spec of any regular mains socket, albeit not totally impossible.

[CatalystV12V]

Thanks Chris.. that’s kinda where my head was going too.

I found this thread where several people suggested plugging power amp into the wall and other equipment into the mains block..

MusicWorks ReFlex Ultra G3 Distribution Box

thanks. My concern with all mains blocks is that the power goes through 2 fuses instead of one. The fuse in the power cable cable to the mains block, and the one from the cable plugged into the mains block to the component. that is why power amps may sound better when plugged direct into the wall? it’s a 1000 GBP for a mains block, and the Chord Mscaler for my Dave is 3500 GBP… I would still say the mains is extremely important as it the modulated mains that we end up listening to… can som…

[Martinzero]

Exactly why i mention location when questions are asked, I deal with medical devices all over the world and the regulation are crazy varied. What we do in Spain isn’t allowed in the USA for example

Martin

[ChrisSU]

One double socket would allow you to connect a mains block and use the other for a power amp if you wanted to try that arrangement.

[Innocent_Bystander]

@MusicWorks ReFlex Ultra G3 Distribution Box

as it the modulated mains that we end up listening to

Although it seems to be a popular concept with some people, that is a very distorted, and I believe wholly erroneous way of looking at hi-fi! Before anything else happens, the mains is transformed to whatever working voltage is desired, then it is rectified and smoothed, to create as pure DC as possible, as far as is achievable as different from the mains as it can get! Arguably it could be said that you are then modulating that DC, but it is absolutely not the mains that you are modulating. Any noise getting through the rectification and smoothing process modulates the DC and thus also the hi-fi output in some way, an undesirable effect, but that is fundamentally opposite from the music signal modulating tge nains!