Answers to your questions...
With the Nano fluid the major junctions - signals for electronics and loudspeakers. For the salt packets - about half of the upstairs switches and sockets. The downstairs is on the other phase so I wonder if it will matter that much but I will eventually do this for every one.
* Furutech Nano Liquid:
For optimal system performance gain using Furutech Nano Liquid, "treat all mechanical connections". You know what the Nano Liquid did for the system improvements you have heard so far, treating just a few places. Imagine if you treated the entire system? What the Nano Liquid is doing is minimizing micro arcing of the electrical signal when passing and bouncing back and forth between connections. This micro arcing I have seen magnified in a lab many years ago. What this micro arcing does is generate a high frequency noise, which masks data from your system that is on the original signal/recording. Mechanical connections, which are two mating pieces of plated or non-plated metal are never perfectly flat. These inconsistencies of the metal mating surfaces leave micro gaps that the electrical signal (line level, AC and DC power) will bounce back and forth at very high speeds. What we are trying to do is minimize this micro arcing using Nano Liquid.
* Regarding the AC line treatment with Rochelle salt:
For optimal system performance gain with this tweak, "treat all junctions on all circuits". You can hear when junctions treated are on circuits other than on the one the system is hooked up to. This is assuming the junctions being treated originate from the same breaker box. My theory is that all of the AC wiring throughout the home is acting like an antenna picking up different frequency bands of high frequency noise. Seems that at the breaker any noise on one circuit will bleed and transfer or be picked up by the other circuits terminated at the breaker box. This will become obvious when you treat other circuits and can hear it effect the system.
I used the fluid on my AC plug and it arcs/flashes when I insert the plug - everything is attached to the same plug. The only thing that is ON when the plug is inserted is a line stage and two RYTHMIK subwoofers all of which require minimal power. I rarely unplug this but I had to yesterday and it flashed just like it did after applying the liquid. I had thought, maybe, the liquid having been recently applied may have caused the arcing but this time was a week later. Have you experienced anything like this?
Nope, never experienced this. But I always turn off power to whatever I am treating, before reinserting into the system. Because you have a power draw, is likely why you are experiencing the arcing during plugging and unplugging the AC plug.
have an area of confusion with the ground boxes - are you using a 14 gauge wire connected to the ground pin of an RCA or XLR connector - that seems like lots of wire for an interconnect cable to contend with.
Are you using an unused socket with just the ground connected or is this part of the cable? I guess for those without additional jacks on their gear there is no choice what to do. I am using a DAC that has both XLR and RCA and their grounds are shared so I will use the extra jack. Still want to be sure I have this correct: 14 gauge wire from the box to component (DAC) ground?
Believe me when comes to performance of ground boxes,
"everything matters". This includes the ground cable. Trust me on this. Or better yet, test this yourself, will be obvious right away. Proper gauge wire to use for ground cable if following my recipe is:
* 14ga. when modding an interconnect or digital coax cable such as a coax SPDIF cable. So from signal or AC power cable to ground box.
* 11ga. (dual twisted 14ga.) as the main cable from ground box to component using an RCA plug, Banana plug or spade. Also for modded AC power cable, by installing to ground of the AC plug or IEC connector.
The 14ga wire (ground cable) when installed as part of mod to say interconnects as in the included pics, is not part of signal transmission of the system. The ground cable in this application is used solely for filtering of the cable and that section of the component (like output stage of a DAC). The key is to make sure the ground signal wire of the interconnect is in direct contact with the metal of the RCA connector. Obviously both the 14ga. wire and signal wire will be in direct contact with the ground signal wire, which is what you want. I highly recommend using solderless connectors when building ground cables or modding them. Again the sonic difference is obvious.
Thanks for your work. I think this will eventually be considered as something that is done for a good music system by people who have no idea who you are and where this was born. That is the highest compliment someone's work can receive. I suspect there will be many out there who will claim to have "discovered" your discovery and this is considered flattery but it is of the lowest order.
My pleasure. I am not looking for credit or financial compensation. Just sharing with other audiophiles, music lovers and people that want to truly improve their system's performance. On the cheap also compared to what it would take at the retail level. Like I mentioned before, the plan you have is good. Even without some of the other tweak gems in this thread. Each part of your plan (Nano Liquid, AC home wiring and ground boxes) is addressing different noise that is polluting your system. Each of the different high frequency noise pollution hinders your system's potential. You will be shocked at what your system is capable of. Will be a fun ride, you will get to experience your system transform into a different system altogether.
