"Signal" wrote in message
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"Robert Morein" emitted :

Ungrounded equipment can
kill, period.


At the moment my system is "ungrounded". My listening room, which is in
the waay back, far away from any grounded outlets, and all the stuff
(well
three) with the three connections on the equipment side are just plugged
in to those normal outlets that accept grunded plugs also. Perhaps this
is
the reason why the preamp and the Linn cd get the rfi, but more
importantly, does this *really* present a danger? I have a three year
old
toddler and all...

Not at all.

Sure, if you exclude the risks (however slim) of the toddler being
electrocuted and Fella serving time for manslaughter... no danger at
all if you exclude these possibilities.

It's negligible. I've posted several challenges for evidence that anyone was
ever harmed by use of a cheater plug to solve a hum problem in a high
quality audio system, and there are no affirmative responses. Zero = Zero =
Zero chance of the toddler getting hurt.


The following would have to happen simultaneously:

1. Flaw in the equipment.
2. Victim touches good ground. In your living room, there are probably no
grounds at all, other than the outlets themselves.

Light fittings, radiators and pipework?

Here in the U.S., table and floor lamps do not have grounded metalwork,
which incidentally, shows the arbitrariness of the regs, since they are as
or more likely to develop shorts to frame as a high quality transformer.

Radiators are a consideration. Locate the system so it is distant from them.