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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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audioman58
4,205 posts
 

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.

asctim
502 posts
 

My opinion: The Aurender unit should have adequate power conditioning built in to it to deal with any typical home AC power noise. If it needs an external power conditioner it should come with it or at least specify what is required. 

bigkidz
3,404 posts
 

Upgrade the parts in your components power supply before trying to filter your system.  Simple AC chokes will most likely do more to improve the sound that a conditioner and a lot less costly.

 

Happy Listening.

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