AUDIO GROUNDING !! Whats the DEAL ??

[@michaelcampbell9459]

Great vid, maybe you have already done so but can you possibly make a comprehensive vid showcasing all the Puritan Audio products and how to best utilize them? Not just the two products on 11stereo but the full line including the little City Groundmaster for those of us who maybe can't put in a grounding rod outside. If you have already made a Puritan Audio vid can you put the link to it in the description here? Also, how can we tell that our home grounding is even hooked up to a rod and working, what kind of tool to check that? Asking as I don't see a connected grounding rod anywhere around my house; there is what appears to be a square grounding rod at the furthest point of house away from the electric panel but no copper wire connected to it (unless it's underground). Thanks

[@labalo5]

I love the donation especially for the cause Mikey!

[@johnh539]

Thanks!!! I have been trying to find out about secondary grounding for ever it feels. Having noticed "grounding" point of the back of some equipment I wandered if it was something one should replicate and if so how. 1) can you use the outer ring of a spare rca input ,or the output for a tape recorder (My ges as the best choice)? 2)Given that as you said mains lines can be noisy and that I instinctively prefer not to attach grounds to them (other than the built in third pin of course) can one use a screw into a breeze block wall or to a metal leg of a chest of draws or something like that? At one point I had a bad ground loop problem witch caused a lot of noise and a tripling of my electricity consumption over about 3 days until that and the noise 'suddenly' helped me diagnose the problem. I reorganised my plug in sockets for all my electronics and I am happy with my sett up but still wander about the last bit of my hifi puzzle- "signal ground.

[@nothingelse1520]

I got an amplifier from the EU that didn't have a setting for US current. I got a step-up transformer, I was getting all kind of weird noises and interference. I didn't realize the "universal plugs" on the step-up didn't actually ground with EU plugs. I got some UK plugs and those ground.

[@shingdaz]

another concept of grounding importance is that zero also means horizon. the soundstage itself sits along a horizon. all frequencies need to emerge from that point distinctly. since the track is a voltage signal coupled to a ground the soundstage is better contained when it can reference that point. cables and limiters are similar in their qualities, where both acheive a function of containing the voltage and better structuring the signal as to keep the soundtage structured etc. too much limiter and it can crush the soundstage if not congest t( original signal.

[@BoredSilly666]

I recently had this problem connecting a Naim amp to a Denon AVR via the HT Bypass. I made my own ground cable and only wired up the ground wire of a uk plug. Connected the cable to signal ground on the Denon then plugged that to an empty socket and my sound improved and lost the ground noise I was picking up.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Sweet !

[@TombstoneTube]

Great explanation. I just bought a Puritan Audio Groundmaster City to use with the PSM156

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

There you go !

[@twochaudiomg2578]

Now I got that short little thing. What are you referring too ?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Forgot

[@mr.dynamite2543]

Hey Mikey, what’s the name of those brass points you mentioned in an earlier video?

[@bkshoemaker70]

Merry Christmas everyone!!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Happy Holidays !!

[@geevee1045]

And in addition, we used to reverse our stereo equipment's 2 prong AC plugs back and forth in order to obtain the lowest chassis voltage readings, in an effort to get these magnetic fields? away from our circuitry. A fairly simple tweak from years gone by.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I remember... crazy....

[@CarlVanDoren61]

Path Audio Resistors have ground lead on casing. Connect onto negative speaker terminal

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Got a box of them..

[@derreckgilmore3360]

Lookin' good, Mikey!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks Derreck!

[@TheCharlesAtoz]

The Morning Show with Mikey! We want OUR OCD! Like we use to get our MTV.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Rock on Chaz !@

[@glenncurry3041]

You did it! For cancer donation! Thank you!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

You bet buddy !

[@artyfhartie2269]

Sticking an audio ground wire from an audio component into the wall outlet ground socket sounds sketchy. What I do is connect thin ground wires to a chassis screw of components without a signal ground connection to one that has one.

[@shaynerism]

Nothing sketchy about it unless your house is wired incorrectly. Then you could die.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Shayne knows... there's no harm at all. Of course it's hard to do, but would be as safe as anything.

[@carlosoliveira-rc2xt]

@@OCDHIFiGuy Take an interconnect wire attached only to the ground barrel and the other end to a power plug only attached to ground prong and plug it into the wall and an unused INPUT on the gear. Simple!

[@PP-nh1lv]

Mikey you are just so darn “Grounded” man!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Shiiiiiii

[@spandel100]

👊👍

[@damirhlobik6488]

and that's what an "expert" who swears by "grounding box" says, I won't insult you because you yourself know what you are like

[@bdmcn]

My Leben has the signal ground screw on the back. I send a wire to my outlet center screw. Easy.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Totally. There it is !

[@damirhlobik6488]

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[@jasoncool3815]

Nice Doo Mikey

[@hintoninstruments2369]

What a terrible, confused and incorrect explanation! It is not surprising that people get misled about this. For a proper explanation look up videos by Bill Whitlock. Signal Common or 0V should not be called "Ground", it should be connected to Protective Earth, but at ONE PLACE ONLY in any one piece of equipment. That is the one vital piece of information that makes sense of all this. For recommended practice see the AES48 standard.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Yeah good luck with your book and electrical code in high end audio.. you can throw it out the window... lol. Thanks for trying to help though