MikeW
Headphoneus Supremus
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Heh, I have a Belkin power strip that has minor power filtering on it, and I have been using it for a week with no problems, 2 days ago I grounded my outlet though (the hard way lol, stuck an 8 foot copper pole in the ground and drilled a ground line thru wall) and my amp dident sound right since, I wasent sure it was worse but it just dident sound right. Well apparantly the "power filtering" features of my strip where not doing anything on an ungrounded outlet, as soon as it became grounded the strip choked the heck outta my sound. I just plugged it straight into the wall a few minutes ago and was like Ah-ha! it sounded almost compressed or veiled. I was getting worried that it was damaged or somthing when I couldent figure out What was going on hehe. I actually bought a Monster Power HTS800 yesterday and was using that for a day and it did not have that crappy compressed veiled sound to it, I took it back to radio shack though when I found a much better one for 20 bucks less online.. (PC1000). That's when I came back home and plugged it back into the strip, took me forever to figure it out cause I had been using the strip for a week with no probs. Only after the strip was grounded did it muck up the sound. So it's true what they say about cheapo power strips they can screw up your sound, im starting to beleive in this power and cable business. I wonder if I should get an upgraded cable for my Desktop Power Supply, I think it uses a regular 3 pin plug that you find on many electronics and computer power supplies, hey someone point me in the direction of aftermarket ones like that.