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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@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. 

Brightness city wow

 

its like taking an equalizer and going +9 db to the treble

i can understand why you guys like this, but it does NOT mix well with silver speaker cables

i had it plugged into wall next to Galileo sx power cord. At first i liked it, and immediately thought it was a positive improvement

I’ve spent the past week trying to figure out what’s wrong with my system and what was causing the unbearable brightness. I tried everything, finally i removed the puron and immediately my ears stop ringing. I now realize the puron has simply just broken in. The first day or two i was just getting a little bit of the puron and it was good. Now thats its broken, its just too much

 

i decided it give it another shot, this time in my power conditioner instead of wall outlet…

its the same thing.

maybe if i had copper speaker cables or a much less resolving system i could see the benefits

 

I have a Puron in my main system (detailed in virtual system page) . Speaker cables are Clear Day silver the Puron works just fine with the cables and system as a whole , it doesn't cause brightness or any other deleterious impacts.

questforhifi,

I owned the SR Galilo SX power cord for a while, and I thought it was too aggressive in the high mid/treble region. 

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