@carlsbad2 how are you measuring distortion of your electricity??
AB testing of power regenerators?? Ever do it?
Ever since the first grade I've been fascinated by clean power and how it impacts my audio system. During recess I would escape to a nearby audio shop to see the latest Power conditioners and regenerators.
PS Audio seems to be the dominant player in power regeneration with their mystery box for thousands of dollars.
I don't have a power regenerator (I do use a power conditioner), and sometimes the sound coming through my system is alot nicer and I wonder if it's related to electrons flowing out of the wall, and would it be better to rejuvenate via regenerater all those electrons?
With that being said has anyone done AB testing of a power regenerator which is extremely easy to do to see the difference? And what are your findings?
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I would like to think that regenerator improves a system but in all fairness most people have electricity sources that do not require it. And therefore it appears to be in most cases a gimmick. Don’t see Power regenerators at audio shows very often, which is where it clearly should be if there was value in the device with all the Power activity going on with all the related to audio systems. Do see a lot of power conditioners obviously. And based upon response to this thread it would seem many do not know what the before and after impact is. If it does have a meaningful impact on the system I would be interested but there’s limited support to justify getting one. |
@emergingsoul the PP10 has a built in oscilloscope. |
I'll add that since I have a scope to measure the quality of the incoming power, I check it occasionally, and it doesn't vary much. Rignt now it is 3.0% distortion (that is a measure of the departure of the incoming sine wave to a perfect 60 Hz sine wave). It may vary as low as 2 and as high as 4. but those are all more than an order of magnitude greater than the .1% output. This holds true late at night, weekends, and holidays. It isn't better late at night. It isn't better on sunday morning. So those who think their rig sounds better late at night because power is better need to find another theory (alcohol?). A regenerator is built around the inverter. It is very easy to rectify the incoming. all the cost of a regenerator is in the audio quality inverter to get the .1% distortion. I challenge people who think going to costco (or Tesla) and getting a battery system will give them cleaner power when they have no specs on the inverter. most equipment around the house could care less what the sine wave looks like. Even consumer electronics don't care. So there is no real reason to put an expensive inverter in these things. I remember then my dad bought an inverter that ran off the truck battery to provide 110 to run saws and equipment on the farm. It literally put out a square wave. Jerry |
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