NC is subject to severe thunderstorms in the late summer, and especially in the spring. What do you do to protect against lightning, voltage surges. Does the constant lightning storms irritate you, or you just don't care?
I personally hate having to shut off the music and unplug all my gear when I hear a distant thunder clap. Especially when it is 3AM and I'm half asleep! Seems like 5PM is time for a storm, just when I turn on the stereo for the evening, sitting down with first bottle of wine for some nice tunes. Then BAM! scramble to unplug.
First thing I do is disconnect the roof mounted Yagi antenna. I have a Jensen coax Iso-Maxx in line with the antenna feed, so I unscrew one end of that to disconnect. Even my kids know how to do it, since i call them on the phone to shut off the stereo and disconnect the antenna more than once. I have 6 plugs to pull and a power strip to shut off. Plugging back in I have to wait for Sonos to boot before I can listen again. Boohoo, I know, life is tough.
I was thinking about going to all battery system, but I'd need four 12V batteries and 4 chargers to make the +/-24V rails I need for my Mod86 chip amps. But that's a big investment and my wife says, "Just unplug it you lazy @#$%^&*" But with batteries I could listen to music while the lightning strikes all around me, like Tesla in his giant lab cage in Colorado Springs. Then I could laugh my ass off, but that would be tempting fate and I don't do that with lightning, so I would just smirk and hope nobody sees it.
Sure I could spendspendspend and solve it with a pile of money, hire a lightning assistant to unplug my stereo and wax my Rolls. But is the problem really worth $1000 or $5000, I don't think so. I want to know what you think. All AC members opinions welcome. Thanks