A $250 Power Conditioner?


Howard reviews the Puron, which is a small AC power conditioner ($250 USD) "plug" that is distributed by Vera-Fi Audio. It’s said to cleanse the electronic circuit that feeds and audio system. Many tweaks cost a pretty penny for little or no performance increase. Is that the case here?

 

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Ozzy agreed. Love the trolls come out every time, never tried it and don’t have $250 to try it so it has to be BS. 
 

If you have never tried this device, just shut your pie hole. 

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I have tried many parallel filters and sometimes feel they can rob a bit of dynamics and naturalness despite the filter not being in series.

But this ParaSnub sounds interesting. It only targets the SMPS noise?

@tablejockey the QRT does work. My neighbor has 4 in his system. They work quite well, have you ever tried them? Read any of the reviews and tests? 

@lpretiring  there are countless posts on various forums about 'power line conditioners', 'power line filtering' devices, to include the one I mentioned.  They all perform the same function, and they all make the same claims, and they all make same/similar demonstrations with same/similar "reduction" in AC power "noise".  These devices have been around for decades, and they all perform the same function to varying degrees of efficiency and varying degree of effect.  So, you can spend $200, or even $2000 and likely higher on a gadget that does the same function of a $35 gadget.  Maybe the materials are much higher quality....maybe that in fact makes a larger "impact", or efficiency, or SAFETY.......maybe that "impact" is audible....maybe that is worth the cost of the device. 

For me, I would try something cheaper first to try out, listen to hear if there are improvements and get some scope tests done to see if at least it is "cleaning" the power coming from the wall, before I would drop $200.