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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@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:
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.
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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Atmaspere, Thanks for all your great comments Relating to power storage within an amp if you’re voltage coming out of the outlet remain stable, even on very hot days, then I think the only concern is spikes in Power needs to handle Sonic changes therefore it would seem the capacitors within a well designed lamp can more than handle Power needs. Therefore it would seem the needed power storage reserves of a power regenerator are unnecessary given a stable voltage supply. I have trouble typing so I dictate and some of the letters may be a little bit off above
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This statement is false. A power conditioner is not an additional source of power reserve nor is that what they are for. Spikes are a minor thing that are easily dealt with- you con't need a conditioner for that. Things like sagging voltage and the 5th harmonic are not! You need active circuitry to perform this task properly. Elgar made a power conditioner decades ago that was capable of this (and also regulated line voltage without limiting current) but it was marketed to industrial and commercial applications, not high end audio. The PSAudio conditioner is capable of eliminating a 5th harmonic and to my knowledge is the only high end audio conditioner with this ability. So you have two choices if you want to do conditioning properly: find an old Elgar and have it refurbished (FWIW if something like that were made today by a high end audio company it would easily be the same pricing as the PSAudio stuff) or get a PSAudio. |
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