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The house was built in 1929. The existing wiring has been inspected. A lot of it has been replaced but not all by any stretch. 12 years ago when we did the renovation the inspector commented that there had been no problems with the wiring for 80 years and likely never would be. Most of the houses on my street are older than mine and most have older wiring than mine. No fires in the last 60+ years that I am aware of. On the other hand, the wiring in the 1970s home I grew up in was aluminum and we had multiple scorched outlets before it was all replaced.

Thanks guys. There is a Shunyata Venom Defender power conditioner in an outlet on the same line as the amp. The amp is plugged into a Furman Power Station power bar/ conditioner. So that side of things is covered. I also noticed that today the amp blinked off for a second when a light in the room was turned _off_. I have noticed no warm or hot outlets. I have not followed this entire circuit from the room to the panel box but I can do that. I am pretty sure that there is some original wiring and outlets, which are 95 years old, in the circuit. I've done home wiring before, but it was in a log cabin that we built so it was all new install and I was pretty much just doing what someone who knew what they were doing was telling me to do. So even though running a dedicated line would be fairly simple I will probably have an electrician do it. If and when I do so I will make everything more robust as others have mentioned above. Thanks again.

I have an older amp and I live in an old house. Some of the electrical system in the house is original. The amp is a Proceed Madrigal HPA2, essentially a Mark Levinson, 250 amps into 8 ohm, approx 500 into my 4 ohm Aerial Acoustics 7B towers. From time to time the amp will 'stop' briefly in response to turning on a light or other appliance in the room on the same circuit. It starts playing again almost immediately. I don't know if this is protection mode or simply the power dropping below a certain level. But, it is certainly aggravating. I'll preface this question by saying I know very little about electricity. What I'm wondering is, would running a dedicated line back to the breaker box (which is modern and has a few open breakers available) help with this problem? If so, what amp breaker? I will also say that this is not intended as a sound quality upgrade of some sort. I just want the amp to stop cutting out. Thanks, George