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All my mains leads are bog standard as all my kit is NVA!
I do use a regenerator as my mains is all over the place and a NVA BMU.
The regenerator makes little or no difference to sound quality but does stop all the transformers buzzing.

I often wonder what solar or wind power would sound like . Or build your own mini power station - doc could power his by burning lp12's . Lots of farms around here have wind turbines or solar panels (not the water filled ones) and a few have bio digesters. Cow poo powered hifi (cow pat audio) may become a reality. watch this space.

zebbo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 5:40 pm All my mains leads are bog standard as all my kit is NVA!
I do use a regenerator as my mains is all over the place and a NVA BMU.
The regenerator makes little or no difference to sound quality but does stop all the transformers buzzing.

Do you daisy chain or separate lines for BMU and your regenerator ?

Nothing to do with the mains but have a watch of this. Came across it whilst searching google for cowpat audio. Now this is the sort of thing that farmers get up to

[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZI1eeV88lQ[/BBvideo]

Lupus-Dei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:27 pm

zebbo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 5:40 pm All my mains leads are bog standard as all my kit is NVA!
I do use a regenerator as my mains is all over the place and a NVA BMU.
The regenerator makes little or no difference to sound quality but does stop all the transformers buzzing.

Do you daisy chain or separate lines for BMU and your regenerator ?

The BMU runs off the regenerator then everything plugs into that.

zebbo wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 12:46 am

Lupus-Dei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:27 pm

zebbo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 5:40 pm All my mains leads are bog standard as all my kit is NVA!
I do use a regenerator as my mains is all over the place and a NVA BMU.
The regenerator makes little or no difference to sound quality but does stop all the transformers buzzing.

Do you daisy chain or separate lines for BMU and your regenerator ?

The BMU runs off the regenerator then everything plugs into that.

Be careful zebbo, I got myself Barked at for something similar Viz Isotek Titan II

Is the Isotek a regenerator or a filter?

If it's the latter then it's pointless running it with a BMU.

Why would that be?
All I'm doing is feeding the BMU a clean, steady supply of electricity. As I say, I can't hear any difference with the regenerator in place or not but ALL my equipment will buzz/hum quite badly at different times of the day without it. I've tried swapping the BMU in/out with both the regenerator and without and it's effects are constant.
The only concern that plays on my mind a little is whether the system is getting the full amps, or whatever, it needs when it's wound up a bit but it sounds ok so I guess it is.

A regenerator takes the AC and creates some new AC from it.Regenerates. Renews
A filter does not regenerate but strains the AC through something to smooth or remove something. Takes away something maybe.

Alfer beat me to it.

I thought you were running a regenerator rather than a filter, Zebbo?

I get DC on the mains here which causes the BMU to buzz occasionally, but the amps themselves don't buzz.