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Don’t over power condition!

Recently I bought the Aurender W20SE. Sounded incredible first day, just everything you’d expect from a 22k streamer, jaw dropping. But then I started getting dropping and smearing, sounded like CD skipping. Frustrated I lost the original bliss of the finest sound I’ve ever heard, I began having regrets of dropping the cash on the piece. I worked with the excellent Aurender customer service through their great app, they wanted to download some new software into the W20SE after sending them an audio clip of the dropping and smears that were irregular, maybe one every other song.

 

But do you know what the actual problem was? Over power conditioning! I had the Puritan PSM 156 hooked into the Audiowise RF Stop, and as soon as I got rid of the RF Stop and plugged it in directly into the Puritan problem solved. One of the wildest lessons I’ve learned thus far in my young HiFi journey, over power conditioning can destroy your sound.

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jerryg123
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What if the over conditioning is causing a voltage or the amperage to drop in the system. 2 conditioners run is sequence and the device (streamer) is making a power demand that the conditioners cannot provide. Kind of like a voltage drop on a fuel pump this cause the motor to over heat and fail.

Voltage drop testing compares the battery or charging voltage to the voltage at the component. The voltage drop occurs because of resistance in the circuit that supplies the pump. The resistance could be in the connectors, grounds or harness.

TESTING VOLTAGE DROPS
A voltage drop test is the only effective way to find excessive resistance in high-amperage fuel pump circuits. With the right leads and back-probes, it’s possible to do the test (if you have access to the top of the tank) without any disassembly. The results are immediate as to whether you’ve got a good connection or a bad one.

alexberger
935 posts
 

Here is the interesting info about DIY AC filters:

http://www.lampizator.eu/AC%20FILTER/SILK/FILTER.HTML

alexberger
935 posts
 

I built the similar filter myself.

I haven’t tried it yet.

 

pinball101
63 posts
 

Did you remove the Puritan from the power chain and test with just the RF-Stop to validate if there is indeed an issue with the RF-Stop to validate your claim of over over conditioning?  Seems to me it would be a simple test.

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audioman58
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I don’t spend a lot on line conditioners ,  I have a AQ 5000 and it is excellent in my system the biggest improvement by far is the dedicated 20 amp line I have using 4 wire Dual ground ,one insulate, one isolated ground on a separate buzzbar 

and awg10 Ofc copper wire! And Every connection in my system as well as IEC,and outlets are WBT, or Furutech which btw most people have gold over Brass 

the copper has 3 x better conductivity ,which also =S 3 x less resistance or noise 

it took me the better part of the year to do this but well worth the effort.

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