Alan Maher designs CBF

[RodWelst]

Originally Posted by MC352

I have been installing these Alan Maher devices with great success as well, but I wonder about attaching one to the ground. I'm not sure, when I think of the use of a Ground conductor in an 120 VAC house circuit, if that makes sense to me. No current is flowing through that connection unless there is an issue, and then the circuit breaker would trip.

If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose to put one on the ground connection?

The Earth Ground is normally a bare copper wire from the circuit breaker panel that leads outside to a copper-clad steel rod in the earth.
Here is a photo of my 6 foot ground rod.


Here is a post from Alan Maher on his Facebook site.
He talks about the "Earth Ground wire" and other topics.

Posted on February 11 at 3:15am.

" Too much bullshit floating around these days about ground isolation and alternate ground planes. Theoretically the earth ground is dead for all intensive purposes, but does offer a benefit when it comes to A/V components. The earth grounds purpose is to provide a small magnetic field to the A/V chassis as a form of stabilizing or reducing the ... See Moreringing in the component circuit design (never float a component designed to be grounded). The problem is copper oxidizes over time and experiences a reduction in its magnetic properties do to that oxidation.

With that said, the magnetic property of the earth ground creates micro-vibration harmonics which modulate into system as distortion (one form of odd harmonics). The other problem is the magnetic strength of the ground is lessened by the many things we have plugged into the home and the aging oxidation (more age = more severe harmonic distortion). Our approach to addressing ground problems is different from the other manufactures; we take an active approach using a multi prong method. As of now the market place has offered nothing but copper strips and iron ore products, both have a limited bandwidth and are a total waste of money. A few months back we introduced the Reference III, the Ref III is an active ground filter….what does that mean you may ask? I am a firm believer in parallel filtering; the Ref III converts our Ref II circuit into a tri-filter. A tri-filter works in 3 planes, across the load, load to earth, and neutral to earth in order to reduce RF noise but to also neutralize the harmonic ringing of the in-wall wiring. Our second approach to ground filtering is our famous Infinity CBF or Signature CBF. When strapped to the bare earth wire, the CBF design controls micro-vibration ringing and intensifies the magnetic property of the ground. Unlike the standard magnetic property of the earth ground, our method alters the frequency of the ground to mirror the natural frequency of the earth. Placing a CBF/Signature on the ground wire where it enters the home can offer stunning results, especially in homes 10 years or older. One thing is for certain, the more you address the harmonics of the earth ground the more you’re A/V system will reap the benefits."

[MC352]

I think I am going to remain a skeptic on the benefits of attaching these to your earth ground.

I read all that, but still to me ground is ground, and I can't understand how that can stop the introduction of what he calls, Micro Vibration harmonics getting into your system, because it is the very ground that should stop that in the first place in my mind.

I am totally bought into attaching them to the AC feeds, and have done that, but this application, I just can't get my head around.

I will wait for you other more adventurous guys to try it and tell us what your hearing.

[jdandy]

Note to self......Take a deep breath, leave checkbook in briefcase.

[MC352]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Note to self......Take a deep breath, leave checkbook in briefcase.

Dan, I have to tell you that the money I spent on these tweaks, definitely made a difference in the sound. I think for the money the changes I got were quite great.

I am just not buying the use of them on the earth ground in your house wiring.
Everything else I have tested so far has made a difference.

[Masterlu]

Yes, I did buy a few; alright alot of them today...

[jdandy]

I don't know, maybe I'm just overlooking something.

[MC352]

Dan, yeee of little faith

Come on, you know your curiosity is begging you to try it

I took a sip of the kool-aid. came back for more. and so far I feel pretty good.

[klipschfan]

Dan....You just need to try an in-system demo-the true test of any product.

Go ahead and order some and if you don't like them, I will buy them from you.

Everyone that I know who has tried them in their system-not only kept them in their system...they ordered MORE...

[Masterlu]

And if Brian doesn't take them, I will...

Seriously, they work very well.

[jdandy]

Ok gentlemen, on your recommendation I will order two Infinity CBF's, one for my main panel, and one for the studio sub-panel. You guys got me......hook, line, and sinker.