Power filtering – Furutech or Puritan Audio?


The Puritan Audio PSM 156 is getting a lot of love lately, but what about old stalwarts such as the beautifully constructed Furutech e-TP80S NCF AC power filter & distributor for 2 channel audio?

toronto416

@wig well that is what I was wondering- it didn’t sound any better, noticeably, right after hooking it up, but it may have been 2 days later, and I was quite taken back by how good the system sounded.

A few days later and I get around to A/B’ing it, but once I unplug do you think, or have your read, that that "undoes" what was a decent "settled" ground to earth? I would think, you know the speed of electricity being what it is, once it is plugged in it would instantly ground.

I know Puritan does state that a wet soil will ground better, and more rods would only improve it, but of course it is hard to know whether one has an excellent ground or not, and how this varies day to day.

once I unplug do you think, or have your read, that that "undoes" what was a decent "settled" ground to earth? I would think, you know the speed of electricity being what it is, once it is plugged in it would instantly ground.

Wow I’m deeply impressed with your knowledge and wisdom. BTW sorry i intervened in your team play.

not classi- crock - fan

You really think people want to read your useless posts? Please do us all a favour and go away for good. 

Though the ASR review includes a myriad of measurements, it fails to mention how the PSM 156 impacted the sound of music in an audio system.

Surely any assessment of audio equipment should include listening to complex musical passages - actually auditioning the equipment, not just measuring it.

To conclude that "there is no indication or logic that would tell us that it can make an audible improvement" is baffling without actually listening to music on an audio system with and without the unit in the chain.

Being seemingly objective without any subjective assessment is missing the point:  how does it affect the sound of music in an audio system?.