The Torus has great surge protection, but a direct lightning strike will wipe out just about everything .Wiring an auxillary ground to the water pipe won't make things any worse.
I worry more about a strike from North Korea.
I still contend that you folks need to take a minute from your busy schedules and take a look at how the Torus RM 20 Balanced works.
I don't see where my post #18 is a problem, unless you mean that my statement that the sound was improved started your juices flowing.
I was an early adoptee of upgraded fuses and got the same reaction when I said they improved my sound.
I used the old run of #10 romex that was one of my dedicated lines,that I was no longer using.I said that I went to one dedicated line.This was surplus wire.Did you think it was still connected somewhere?
So I am supposed to take heed from experts who don't know much about balanced power?
I do try to make a joke now and then, because there is some humour in all of this,re-read the line above.
I respect the advice of my electrician audio bud and that of Ross at Torus who was professional in his quick response to my e-mail inquiry about running a ground from the Torus to the water pipe.
Sorry to admit that I don't have that response in writing, just computer .
More humour when some expert mentioned that perhaps I was talking to someone of no importance who would say anything just to make a sale.
I don't like to get involved in forums anymore just because they always end up in one persons experience being rebuked by another who ,case in point really has no idea of what they are talking about.
They just like to throw their expert advice out there,mostly just to keep up appearances.
"Let's see what &&&& has to say about this!"
I have no affiliation with Torus,I just bought my unit in Dec /17 from a dealer not from them.
I am not promoting balanced power as the holy grail of power conditioning.
I was only responding to a thread about dedicated lines and my hands on experience with going down that road as opposed to speculating the pros and cons from the sidelines. I stated that one dedicated line was better than using three in my experience.And stated how I came to that conclusion.
I like to get involved in this hobby,get my hands dirty from time to time and experiment for myself before I accept that something just can't make a difference.
I at no time stated that everyone should go out and run live wires from their stereo to the water pipe to get better sound.
If those who raised red flags would have taken the time to check out what I said they would have know that the Torus was wired at the panel they way they specify in their install instructions.
Which means there is a ground wire at the panel that is from the dedicated power line to the Torus.
It was never defeated, or bypassed.
The breaker was functional,double pole 2 x 20 amp -- neutral wire to one half of breaker, hot wire to other half of breaker and ground wire to the panels ground buss bar. A 240 to the Torus -so the Torus is grounded at the panel.
But I told you that.
Why the rant?
Because if you don't know what you are talking about and have no experience with then why comment at all?