I’ll take a couple of pictures this evening Mike.

Hi Mike,

The thought behind putting the filter in the consumer unit was to introduce the filter at the first point of the ringmain in hope of removing noise at the source.
I then have the Fidelity audio filter plugged in beside the right speaker, which is the other side of the ringmain, so hopefully that does its job there.

I'm going to try the ifi filter into the back of the Regenerator and elsewhere in the house.

I only had a listen to a few tracks last night with the SNS in place, but it seems to make things a bit calmer, quieter and less bright, allowing more inner detail through and slightly better bass.
I also noticed the SNS doesn't generate heat, whereas the ifi gets quite warm.

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I have the big Silent Point grounding box attached to the grounding connection of the mini consumer unit providing my 60A dedicated power to the system.

I don't think there's room for a socket, but I've thought for a long time about replacing the circuit breaker with a cryo treated one.

It’s fairly easy to do, but if you intend to incorporate the DIN rail socket into a ringmain, one leg of the ringmain cables at the consumer unit needs to be long enough to reach your new DIN rail mounted socket, wherever that ends up in the consumer unit. The other leg goes into the circuit breaker(as before)and then a piece of cable from the circuit breaker to the DIN rail socket to complete the ring.
You’d then do the same for the neutrals, but they will come from the neutral bar, rather than the circuit breaker, unless it’s a double pole(RCBO) circuit breaker. The socket just clips onto the DIN rail and some have push in connections, others have screw terminals.

Just a bit of an update on the Kemp SNS.
It is definitely the real deal and superior to the ifi filter.
I got that hairs on the back of the neck standing up feeling for the first time in ages.

Everything is much quieter. Noise I didn’t know was there has gone and everything is calmer allowing individual sounds and rhythms to be followed more easily. Percussion is more lifelike and bass has more solidity, punch and pace.

Friday night's experiment was to make a new Dc cable for my ZeroZone Lps.

I've wanted to upgrade the supplied cable for a while, but have been unsure if I'd gain much or if it was worth spending much money on one of these cables as it only feeds my Router.

I had bought a few long Evidence Audio Lyric HG xlr cables in the past and cut them and re-terminated them into pairs, so i had a couple of lengths left that just happened to be 1.2 meters long like the supplied Zerozone Dc cable. This is the perfect length for the job.

The Lyric HG cable consists of 2 solid core copper conductors and a copper screen. One length of this cable would have been perfect for the new Dc cable, but i decided to use the two lengths, combining the conductors, so one length became the Positive and one the Negative.
This made constructing the cable quite difficult, particularly because I couldn't find my little soldering stand that has crocodile clips to hold the parts in place.

The cable turned out ok, if a little agricultural looking. I applied some of the RFI tape at the ends to shield parts no longer protected by the screen after terminating the cable.
The cable has been plugged in overnight into the Zerozone, powering the router and I've just been listening to a few tracks. Initial impressions are positive. Quieter background, better imaging and more detail. As far as I remember, these off cuts of cable were never used, so I'm hoping for even more after some time.


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Thanks Damien,

I must look again for the soldering stand, but have a feeling the kids found it, so who knows where it ended up.

Or 'soddering' if you're doing something dodgy sounding in the US.

Excellent Matt... Looking forward to your updates already...

Are u using anyone's recipe for the ground box?