My PS300 is a very good power generator, but it’s old and still running, Finally I have to give it rest, and I also want to save electricity, I decided to buy Wisdom power ES, did not expect anything, To my surprise it surpass my PS300. It’s so quiet and very natural sounding.Its excellent. You can call Jim the owner , he can give you more info, he knows what he is doing.
Power Conditioning on the Cheap
This is my first post here after a bit of lurking, so please be gentle. I realize this subject must come up a fair amount and I've read erik_squires blog posts on the subject, but I was hoping to get the community's opinion on the relative merits of a few relatively basic power conditioners. I've narrowed my list down to a few options at a range of (fairly modest) price points. From low to high they are:
Furman PST-8D
ifi Power Station
Furman Elite-15 PF I
Shunyata PS10 w/ Venom Defender
Audioquest Niagara 1200
In a perfect world where I didn't have a limited budget I would probably buy something higher up the line from Shunyata, but since we live in a decidedly imperfect world, these are my options, although I would welcome other suggestions that fit within this price range.
I should also probably mention that while I value subjective reports on the sound quality of various products, generally speaking I give more weight to objective measurements or at least arguments based in sound science. More embarrassingly, I also place a certain amount of value on aesthetics. Aesthetic taste being inherently subjective, (a debatable point, but for the sake of argument lets just assume that it's true) lets just say that when I lust after completely unobtainable equipment it tends to be from companies like Soulution or Pilium rather than Dan D'Agostino or darTZeel.
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@jayctoy The wisdom power ES seems as close to plugging directly into the wall as you can get. It is wired almost exactly like I wired my my wall boxes (except I consider cryo as snakeoil). It doesn’t surprise me that it sounds better than the old PS300 because many power conditioners do more harm than good. --Jerry |
You cannot improve a lack of a problem, and most people, myself included, do not have a problem. Thus it's about confidence.dedicated circuit is good, isolate refrigerator, ac compressors, anything else I bought a Furman P-1800, here's an open box listing
It's the capacitors that are sending the juice, and you don't need to over-do it, only part of your system is on at any one time. you could theoretically fill the capacitors with filthy power, they send the same out. your quality equipment has transformers, capacitors, ... take a look at the diameter of the wire in the fuse before you buy power cords larger than garden hoses. the furman monitors/shows incoming voltage, if you had a real problem, temp or permanent, it would be easily revealed. I use it as a power center, 1 switch for all equipment, the preamp and amp power switch's will stay in on position. walk away for 20 minutes. then turn on selected source equipment via it's switch. they still get powered via the Furman. |
@elliottbnewcombjr Are you saying you can identify a problem by looking at voltage? If so, please explain how.
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