Just a comment. Not a challenge - Mains

[Minicoupeman]

My dealer lent me several ISOL 8 bits of kit because I have/ had a ‘flutter’ on my phono input. I liked the Mains conditioner. It improved SQ. Not cheap but hey, yes. I would have brought it. Not impressed with a mains gang that accompanied it. Feedback to dealer. He delivers a better mains block to try but says ‘I thought you ought to try this’. This, being a ISOL-8 Sub station which cost A LOT MORE THAN I WAS PREPARED TO PAY!!
Short story. I am now heavily in debt. I can’t remember any upgrade that delivered what this does.

 

[audio_PHIL_e]

tried looking for the isol8 website. found www.isol8.com. it broke my browser and I had to power cycle the computer.

 

[JANDL100]

It probably depends on the quality of your mains, but I find a mains improvement doodad to be a good sound quality investment.

 

[bigfool1956]

tried looking for the isol8 website. found www.isol8.com. it broke my browser and I had to power cycle the computer.

They are at this address

I've had great results with the Audiolab DC blocker, and the Puritan mains unit that @Jessica_k brings to Lurch's bake-offs is very impressive.

 

[audio_PHIL_e]

They are at this address

Thanks. I thought I recognised the name ... Nic Poulson designed stuff for Trilogy - I have a VTi (sounds excellent, but it has a problem that I have not yet got around to fixing) - he knows what he is doing.

 

[2010*zuma]

A well designed power supply on the amplifier does away with these notions.

 

[Windy Miller]

My dealer lent me several ISOL 8 bits of kit because I have/ had a ‘flutter’ on my phono input. I liked the Mains conditioner. It improved SQ. Not cheap but hey, yes. I would have brought it. Not impressed with a mains gang that accompanied it. Feedback to dealer. He delivers a better mains block to try but says ‘I thought you ought to try this’. This, being a ISOL-8 Sub station which cost A LOT MORE THAN I WAS PREPARED TO PAY!!
Short story. I am now heavily in debt. I can’t remember any upgrade that delivered what this does.

i had the local dealer suggesting I tried an Isol8 Substation. May I ask which one of them you have now? My electrics are fairly poor and I had a moderately priced main block on loan which improved the sound quite a bit. I’ll give the Substation a go - it sounds like a good piece of equipment to try.

 

[MotherSky]

i had the local dealer suggesting I tried an Isol8 Substation. May I ask which one of them you have now? My electrics are fairly poor and I had a moderately priced main block on loan which improved the sound quite a bit. I’ll give the Substation a go - it sounds like a good piece of equipment to try.

I would strongly recommend looking at the Puritan mains units - far more realistic pricing than the Isol-8 kit, and astonishingly effective - I acquired a PSM156 on spec, hoping it might help with an issue I have, occasionally picking up a radioham who lives a few houses away - whilst it did not get rid of him (it has subsequently emerged that he also has a VHF license, so I think I have an uphill battle ahead...) I was amazed by the level of collateral benefit - unintentionally amongst my most significant recent upgrades to my system - MH

 

[Strider]

With flutter I'd be looking much closer to the turntable drive than rather mains conditioning for the phono stage. TBH its not the mains coming in but what the motor in the TT that causes flutter, I'd check that the drive is accurate - a resistor failing? A regulator going south and not nailing down the frequency that the TT platter revolves even if your mins is 50 Hz or 60 Hz the TT PSU will still bang out the correct RPM to the motor.
A mains filter is just a mains filter but flutter is down to turntable speed instability - check the belt, check the direct drive quartz speed thingy if you have one, sorry bud IMHO you're putting the cart(ridge) before the horse.

 

[Minicoupeman]

Thanks Strider. While greatly reduced I still have flutter. My T/T power is a 2 year old DC supply from Mitchell. Should I send it back? There is of course a separate motor.

 

[Windy Miller]

I would strongly recommend looking at the Puritan mains units - far more realistic pricing than the Isol-8 kit, and astonishingly effective - I acquired a PSM156 on spec, hoping it might help with an issue I have, occasionally picking up a radioham who lives a few houses away - whilst it did not get rid of him (it has subsequently emerged that he also has a VHF license, so I think I have an uphill battle ahead...) I was amazed by the level of collateral benefit - unintentionally amongst my most significant recent upgrades to my system - MH

Thanks ever so much - I’ll look into them.
Cheers, Windy.

 

[Cable Monkey]

Do you have Ethernet distributed over mains in your home?

 

[Minicoupeman]

No Ethernet. Tried it AWFUL!!!!