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Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio?

Is the PS audio regenerator a good choice or are there others?

 

 

jumia
tablejockey
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PP's are something to put on the list after you're convinced you did all the baseline essentials to dialing in SQ.

Dedicated line/decent receptacle before considering all the other madness.

Your alternative choice is "power conditioning" or whatever you want to call it, is another polarizing subject.

Audioquest Niagra and the like has their devotees.

bvdiman
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Oh I am also still using my 17yo PSA PPP (out of regular ac line) in bed room to plug my big Sony Oled plus Marshall blutooth speaker into—even my 10yo nephew could appreciate the picture and sound quality improvements. My old P10 fared even better there but couldn’t fit into the cabinet.

jumia OP
528 posts
 

The P 15 at about 80 pounds is a beast. Add it to mono blocks, it's just too much real estate inside the room.  So I will revisit putting in a dedicated circuit.

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rooze
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I really like my PS10. I live in the boondocks, no neighbors, a transformer stuck on a pole outside my house - nice clean electrical supply, etc, but the PS10 still manages to make my system sound better.

 

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atmasphere
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you know I gotta believe all the wonderful power supplies that already exist inside a higher level component no doubt do a lot of what the PS audio regenerator does. So at the end of it all what is the point of this PS audio regenerator? Are all these separate power supplies now pretty much irrelevant.

And these power regenerators apparently have amplifiers that act as amplifiers to amplifiers. Don’t existing amplifiers already have the capacity to deal with changes in audio dynamics, which I thought is a very important aspect of amplifier design.

@jumia  The power regenerator is a form of power conditioning. In this case its the best one offered to high end audio. your last paragraph above has nothing to do with what the power regenerator does or offers.

Dirty power can affect the sound of a lot of components. It can affect the noise floor and can mess with distortion. Cleaning up the AC power allows the power supplies in your equipment to work more efficiently and so produce less noise.

This statement:

Additionally to improve the flow of electricity via a regenerator to a quality amplifier in periods where there is a huge swing in electricity needs is ridiculous. Amps maintain Storage reserves just for this purpose.

Is false. If the amp has a regulated power supply it might be able to deal with voltage swings (which can last far longer than the storage in an amplifier's power supply could ever deal with). Amps maintain storage to have an energy store from which to draw power for sure, but if the voltage has sagged on a hot day when everyone is running air conditioning the amp will suffer.

Wouldn’t installing a simple Greenwave filter solve a lot of the issues??

Was thinking about buying a Greenwave EMI meter which might be interesting.

If I can achieve a very very low reading than why bother getting a PS 15.

The reason is more than just high frequency hash! The 5th harmonic on the AC  Line is one of the more pesky issues you can run into from a power supply point of view and a hash filter will do nothing to stop it. The PS Audio regenerators can block the 5th harmonic entirely - and are are one of the very few high end conditioners that can do so.

The 5th harmonic (300Hz in the US) can cause power transformers to rattle and run warm; power rectifiers to become noisy and AC motors to possibly run backwards.

 

 

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