Shane_B.

None of what I'm using on this circuit is grounded except for my DAW. My audio interface doesn't have a ground, none of the decoration lights do either, nor the monitor. I'm currently only using headphones so no powered monitors with grounded plugs and I don't have my rack mount hardware hooked up either. Ground and Neutral are bonded at the panel. That's why it's bad to have a high voltage when you check the outlet. It means there is an EMF leak or other type of leak. I don't know what it is now but here in the US the acceptable reading between N and G used to be .3 VAC or less with nothing plugged in to the outlet/no load. The problem with isolation transformers and AC filters with audio and video is, they chop the wave. The audio purist guys avoid those like the plague. This is the only way to really solve the problem. It's only $10,000 USD so maybe pick up two. Hah. I had to switch to all balanced cables when connecting the audio path while using my monitors and rack gear. I was getting a bad buzzing sound, but the ground voltage tested ok. When I do hook all that up I have it all in a single power strip now. I have tried it both ways with everything plugged in separately. I had plans to build a small dedicated room in my basement to set up all my gear but never finished it. I wired a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 8 outlets to cover all the devices. It didn't make a difference. Got the same results with the properly grounded dedicated circuit as I did with just running everything off a single power strip with various things plugged in around the room. That said, the only problem was audible noise when using all that hardware. What's happening here is a performance issue. I'm not one to buy in to all that EMF and Smart Meter and 5G 'EMF pollution' stuff, but who knows. That stuff reaches you far less below ground surrounded by concrete walls in a basement.

Well, maybe this has a tiny bit to do with it. LOL! I put up a train layout in my dining room for Christmas this year and this is 1 of 3 power strips. Hey, In my own defense, I converted all the C7 lamps to LED's. I have one of those AC line splitters for hooking an amp meter on for corded plugs. I threw my meter on the main plug and I'm drawing 351 Watts and it's 100% LED. That's without the train running. Plus I have a full sized tree with 300 incandescent lights. All on the same circuit. That said, I've seen no performance decrease with or without all of that, but I absolutely without doubt see a performance increase when I take my DAW downstairs. At some point water dripped in to my main box in the basement. You can see corrosion on the lines coming in and nobody ever used conductive grease when they installed it. I wish I had a whole house shutoff to address that. My only option is to get the power company involved and I don't want to do that. I've seen video's on youtube of high end audio guys who had that same problem fixed and they added long grounding lines with many grounding rods way out away from their house just so they could get good grounds. It is extremely important to have a good clean ground. It was the first thing I checked on every copier and fax service call and I've solved many problems by dumping bad ground problems back on the customer to have them get an electrician to fix it. I've checked mine here and I'm getting almost nothing so even with the corrosion at the panel it's still pretty good. Back when I serviced office equipment the standard was less than .3 VAC between N and G with no load on the circuit. That's what I have here. That said, I recently added 4 USB charging port outlets to the bedroom remodel I did. I ran all new wire and checked before I added outlets and N to G was good. I put those USB charging outlets in and it jumped up to 3VAC. It's all lights and 1 TV on the circuit and it hasn't caused any problems with the TV so far, but that bothered me to see that much of a leak. It must mean that there is a constant load because of the built in charge ports.

It's just not the same since they introduced Ethanol out here in the Midwest. And don't even get me started about Bio-Willie-Diesel! Pa-tooey! The aftertaste is dreadful. I don't know what I'm going to do when we go 100% electric in 2050. If we make it that long after Windows 10 expires. ?

Neither do all the pokes and boosters every single person here including the children got. But here we are. I just can't wait until I can get back to licking gas pump handles like the good il' days.

There's an old Benny Hill sketch about One Eye the cat. I probably shouldn't post a pic. It was a view of the cat walking away. ? @craigb, you seem to be in to kitty cat meme's. Care to take a chance? ?

I thought this was a joke but it's real! Here's a link to it on Amazon. I had my DAW set up in my dining room. LSS ... 18 of her people will be here in 20 minutes for a Christmas gathering, so I'm down in the basement hiding now. LOL! I set up my DAW down in the basement and the first thing I noticed is it's faster, and everything seems to work a bit smoother. Even the mouse lag on my TV/Monitor is noticeably less. I remember this has happened to me before and I asked about it a very long time ago when I lived up in Iowa, on the old forum. Moved DAW in the basement temporarily, and it worked and sounded better. I was at a loss. I got to thinking maybe it has something to do with being surrounded upstairs in the walls with the AC wires and they are creating EMF's and maybe that's effecting my PC. I don't have any of that in the basement. So I just did a quick search for EMF protection for PC cases and this USB Grounding Cable came up. There ain't no way in h e double hockey sticks I am ever plugging that thing in to a USB port. First of all ... what if some idiot accidentally wired the outlet wrong and reversed the neutral and ground wires or you have a voltage leak between neutral and ground. You'd find out real quick when you plugged this bad boy in. Holy smokes!

I wonder if Bob is related to the OEOHFPPE ...

Dark Reader works with Amazon, eBay, and the Presonus Forum too. Oh happy days. Edit: Google Drive and Photo's too.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There we go. Thanks for the Dark Reader advice. Thankfully it works in Brave. I guess I can die, within the 3 years that Windows 10 will still be supported, a happy many now.

All I can think of when I see Bapu's image is Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun 1. Oh Jennifer. ?

I chose the dark background in Windows 10, I can't on the forum. ? "Microsoft will end Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025.". I sure hope we have a tiny big more time than that.

That's funny! I have my desktop and Studio One and CbB all set to black. Well, Tungsten as CbB calls it. It truly blows switching from anything I'm doing to checking the forums. I immediately get a searing headache and sharp pains in my eyeballs. LOL. I needed a break and I've been buried in my DAW for 10 days now, 16 hour + days. The contrast is starting to get to me. And then I get a message this morning saying, "No joy for you!". LOL. I tell ya, I can't win for losin'. ???

See notice at bottom of screenshot. I'm running an Intel i6700K w/16GB RAM and 2 250GB SSD's and it doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for my upcoming forced update to Windows 11. What a C.O.S..

You get 2 gold stars for creativity on this one @Bapu. ?

I figured it's about all we could hope for. I got my 50" 4K TV working as a monitor really well but man, reading the forum actually gives me a headache. It's brutal on the eyes even with the blue blocker thingy turned on. BTW ... My old Geforce card was dying and I didn't know it until it finally gave up the ghost completely. It's specs are rated less than the CPU/GPU on my i6700K. That's sad. It's a 9500 IIRC. I had the GPU disabled on the 6700K to free up resources and I had one hell of a time going in to bios and enabling it with a video card that kept blacking out every 5 seconds. LOL. The TV is working like a charm now for DAW work. I imagine gaming wouldn't work, although it says it will. Afraid to go down that rabbit hole. TV says you can game, Shane buys video card, TV lied, Wife mad over $$$, Shane on self-cancellation watch. You know the story. I can't believe my DAW is 6 years old already. I've barely had a chance to use it until the last couple of weeks. It's like brand new. Getting sick of Ozone taking 25 seconds to load so I looked in to updating my CPU. I have the fastest one my Mobo will support so if I want to upgrade I have to replace the Mobo, RAM, and CPU. It never ends. Thinking of keeping this for the NAS server I want to build, 20 years from now, and upgrading to something new.

Please. For the love of God. All we want for Christmas this year is an option to make the forum page black instead of white. Our retina's are sizzling. Thank you.

Pretend it's my J/P bass and call it good. ?

Exactly. I've seen some house flipping shows based in Cali. Believe me, a beautiful recording studio in your back yard won't be a problem. LOL

Careful if you put any treatment on the ceiling. You wouldn't want to pull any wool over your eyes. Sorry, I'll go to bed now. It's late and I haven't had any beer.

I baked this today and was thinking of you paulo. Weird to know a 50 year old man wearing an apron was baking in his kitchen half way around the world thinking of you isn't it. I'm just kidding. I'm not quite half way around the world. Anyhoo ... here is a museum quality slice of Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie. I baked it myself. The secret is the cast iron. Perfect crispy flaky crust. Slightly gooey in the corners and a thin gooey layer on the bottom, perfectly baked in the middle, and crumble on top. Mmm.

Wow. That looks just like CJ's studio!

Craig, kiss my grits! So there's no misunderstanding, kiss my grits was Flo's catch phrase.

My pot smoking, long haired, non-bathing, Harley riding, 74 year old wanna be hippie father in law was recently complaining that they don't make lava lamps like they used to. Something about they don't flow like the 'good ol' days'. Of course, he says the same things about Harley's, weed, women etc. etc. ...