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Originally Posted by JohnThomas
If you have an Everest and all your equipment is plugged into it then you are already grounded. Correct?
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Okay, some clarification here. If you have your equipment plugged into an Everest power distributor (PD) with standard IEC-type 3-prong plugs, as Ivan as correctly pointed out, your components have a "safety" connection to "earth ground".
This safety ground connection, however, does not remove ground-plane noise from the components in the system. This what the GP-NR terminals on Shunyata power distributors do and to a significantly greater extent, what the Altaira Ground Hubs do.
So...if you have a chassis ground (sometimes referred to as "earth ground") terminal on your component, as many Asian components do, e.g. those from Aurender, Lumin, etc., you can connect a Shunyata chassis ground cable from that component's chassis ground terminal to one of the GP-NR terminals of your Everest, etc., and obtain a significant audible improvement in form of a lower noise floor, and less "hash and grain" from the Shunyata's GP-NR (ground-plane noise reduction) system.
A dedicated chassis ground terminal on a Lumin U2 Mini...why don't all American and European companies do this anymore?
Alternatively, by running the
appropriate test using an ohm meter, you
may also be able to use an external chassis fastener to make a connection to chassis ground if the component does not have a "dedicated" chassis ground terminal. The caveat here is that for safety reasons you
must run a test with an ohm meter and obtain a reading of <1 ohm to be able to safely and properly use that chassis fastener as a chassis ground connection point to a GP-NR terminal on Shunyata PD. This is because some chassis have painted or powder-coated chassis, and that fastener may not make a connection to chassis ground ground because of the coating. This is why running the test with the ohm meter is 'mission-critical".
Here's a photo showing connecting an Alpha ground cable connected to the chassis ground terminal of my EtherREGEN. By connecting this ground cable from EtherREGEN to one of the GP-NR terminals on an Everest, Denali, Sigma, Alpha, Delta, and Venom PDs, etc., you'll hear a
notable improvement. You can thank John Swenson of UpTone for being an excellent and disciplined engineer and putting a proper chassis ground terminal on EtherREGEN
See those black binding posts on the back of Everest? Those are the GP-NR ground posts. They're there for a reason. Use 'em!
What the Altaira Ground Hubs do when added to a system is extend and enhance the magnitude and quality of ground-plane noise reduction (GP-NR) functionality of an Everest, and other Shunyata PDs for even more of an audible improvement.