Well, I have ald intend to acquire a lot of high-end audio equipment in my house, but my house has really, really, (I can't emphasize this enough) really crappy power. I don't actually know when the wiring was installed, but the house itself is 113 years old.

I once connected my laptop charger, my maxxed headroom desktop, and my desk lamp to the same outlet, and the headroom was cutting out. I had to find another outlet for the lamp. So, the conditioner would probably need to have a built-in battery to assist it. I'll be powering a class A power amp that could draw as much as much as 260W, depending on how I bias it, a DAC, a large and powerful desktop computer with a big monitor, a laptop, and a piano keyboard, conceivably all at once, so this thing can't be wimpy, It also needs to supply very, very clean power.

Are there any designs out there that would fit the bill? If not I could probably design one myself, but I'm pretty new to this stuff and don't have a ton of time on my hands. I'd prefer to copy an existing design. I can't afford a commercial product.

Thanks guys!

maybe rewiring your house, or at least the section you intend to use for this with a dedicated line?

For something really extreme, you could considering going to balanced power with a nice 800VA 2x 56V transformer, a couple of chokes and a line filter.

Or you can skip the balanced power and just add the line filter, will probably clean up most noise you have.

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Jim Hagerman of Hagtech has provided one on his site somewhere, let me find the link.

Here it is: http://www.hagtech.com/pdf/conditioner.pdf

I would rewire the line to the Hifi room at a minimum. If you use a big transformer power conditioner or not, you will need to rewire. It sounds like you don't have enough current getting to your room.

Here is a link to Batman's balanced power supply/conditioner..dB

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Interesting site, thanks.

Yeah sounds like too much impedance in the supply to me... You could potentially fix it with $10 worth of cable, anything else is a long road round!

Thanks for all the info, guys! I've been meaning to talk to my landlord about having our house rewired. I'll do that, but I still want to build this power conditioner. I'll be doing some research and then ordering parts soon.

the wiring is posibly a fire hazzered if it's that bad. I would get it replaced. Esp. if it's the stuff with rubber or cloth outer cover which will burn if the wire gets hot (wheras the moden stuff melts and gets quite hot before doing so).

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You can pretty much forget all the previous posts and should pay attention to the above one. If you have problems with the landlord a 'courtesy inspection' from the fire department will solve that. In the meantime a small investment in smoke detectors may be advised. 'Dead' Silence may result.otherwise.