To Plug Power Amps Direct in to Wall or Not ??

This is simple:

If you have a decent amp, you will always plug you amp directly into the Wall.

If you want it to sound better get an electrician in and get a dedicated line.

If you want it to sound even better, have the electrician run an Isolated ground, that consists of a dedicated Ground wire not connected to your water pipe, or your fuse pannel, but have it run outside to a copper rod, that is burried in the ground.

Industry experts have long been proponents of this type of setup, because of the isolation from other appliances that generate noise.

Enjoy!

My whole house surge protector is not sensitive enough to cover small "issues". Regardless of sound quality, I'm using a surge before my amp. I can get used to a miniscule amount of sound problems vs buying a new amp.

And, YES I have had lighting strike the house more than once. Last time if fried my whole niles system!

"I can get used to a miniscule amount of sound problems vs buying a new amp."

On the other hand, what better excuse could there possibly be to upgrade????? You could say: "Honey, the urge struck me like a bolt out of the blue; now I'm thundering mad and going to storm off and buy a new amp."
OK, maybe not.....

>>"If you want it to sound even better, have the electrician run an Isolated ground, that consists of a dedicated Ground wire not connected to your water pipe, or your fuse pannel, but have it run outside to a copper rod, that is burried in the ground."<<
[Perfect_sound]
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Thats a no no and dangerous to boot....A good way to fry his equipment in a lightning storm.

And what if for some reason a piece of his equipment were to have a leak or short to the case. One of the main reasons for an equipment ground is to carry any fault current back to the source and if the current flowing in the equipment grounding conductor is large enough it will cause the overcurrent device, breaker or fuse, to open. By running the equipment grounds to a separate outside ground rod and not connecting this isolated grounding system back to the main electrical grounding system, any fault current will have to flow through the earth and reinter either his house's grounding electrode system or the house next door's grounding electrical system to return to the source, the utility transformer. By the way the current flow will take the least resistive path back to the source. The earth is never to be used as a fault current carring path back to the source. Depending on soil moisture the current will be limited returning back to the source, resistance. If the resistance is large enough the current flow may not be large enough to open the overcurrent device.....

That is also how to electrocute an animal or person who may be walking outside on wet grass near the ground rod if there is a fault.

I would never do this but along with Perfect Sound comments.
I have read (I think it was in Bound for Sound) that along with putting a dedicated ground rod outside, you should also keep the ground around the rod wattered. Preferably with Salt Water !!!
Yikes !!!