Ferrite Chokes on ALL pwer cables-bad?

Yes they can 'muffle' the sound. The more stuff you use to 'purify' or 'clean' the power, the more likely you are to also cause problems from to much. usually ONE type of cleaner, or purifying per. adding stuff up on the same equipment is generally difficult. Even some special cords added to purifiers can be too much.
"In all things moderation".
It may be just a few of the chokes are causing a probelm... time to fool around with them

Rpg, do you have dedicated lines for your audio gear? If not, this is highly recommended, with dedicated lines and quality outlets you should not need ferrite chokes and the noise floor should not be an issue.

Cheers,
John

I have a dedicated line for my system, high quality Hospital grade isolated ground outlet. I'm thinking, as I have a power conditioner that all my gear plugs into, to start over and observe one at a time as I add chokes which ones help vs which ones don't. Thanks!
Rpg

Keep in mind that if your equipment is connected via single-ended (rca) interconnects, the most significant contributor to system noise (assuming your individual components have good noise performance) may not be the incoming power at all.

See the following paper, which explains that since the shields of unbalanced interconnects carry both signal return currents and extraneous ac-related interchassis noise currents, those shields are commonly where noise is introduced. Which can be improved by shortening the interconnects, using interconnects with lower shield resistance, using audio (not power) isolation transformers, sometimes by re-routing cables, and sometimes by the arguably unsafe practice of lifting ac safety grounds.

http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/an004.pdf

Regards,
-- Al

MY IC's, with the exception of my Digital IC are all unshielded; Kimber KS1021 and Silver streak.

I removed all of the chokes and the sound improved a great deal, I'm not sure why I installed them in the first place.

Thank you to everyone :)
Rpg