Power Sensitive Components

Hi OP:

No affect on the sound?

Quite the opposite, in several apartment moves the Furman always made my system sound more relaxed and open. Until 2021 I lived in rather dense housing and even in a high rise with a nearby elevator motor. The system then always sounded better with the Furman in place. In one apartment PG&E had a load balancing issue and I was getting 130V at my outlet. Still technically within spec but it made me nervous so I added a separate Furman AR unit in front of the Furman Elite 15i.

Now I live in a detached home in a lightning prone environment so I am neurotic about surge protection. I still see the AR unit functioning during the day, but the output voltage is constant, until there’s a real brown out.

To be clear, a direct connection to the wall is not nearly as good as having a solid voltage, and the Furman AR unit gives me that. An amp suffering from voltage sags is a sad amp indeed.

As I mentioned, I have 2 units, first the voltage regulator, second the Furman Elite 15i, but you can get the benefits of both with the P-1800AR.  You lose outlets and filter banks and power factor correction but if you have a simple system it's the best price/performance option if you truly have sagging voltages.

Try putting some high quality power cords on it like $1k and up

the Puritan line conditioner may help your problem 

The regenerator May or maynot work ,there was a topic on this not too long ago

email Paul at pS audio , do youhave a good dedicated circuit ?

I use a 4 wire awg 10:with dual ground ,a common and insulated isolated ground

on its own  buz Barr and ground , go to VH Audio check out his surge protection

and power correction ,under $1k , never use crappy stock power cord .

my brother has a 4000 Accuphase on Audition ,the AQ Tornado HQ,and  sourse 

made a dramatic difference on amplifier and digital . Also change yourAC wall outlet to a gold copper , the $99 Pangea Copper gold is very good and night and day better then junk that’s built with the house 5x better conductivity which lowers noise,Remove all bottle necks , also on dedicated 20 amp breakers Change every 4-5 years Why becaus3 Copper oxides and corrodes. I bought silver plated Siemens from Germany, before covid and by far the best and Donot corrode, at $45 each ,but now I cannot get them.  If you are serious every -4-5 years put in a new Copper 20 amp breaker .wire should be at minimum awg12.

I’ve decided to try the Powerplant 3 for my source components. Will probably order one tomorrow. I don’t think I can solve this with cables. That’s just a bandaid and the summer is not getting any cooler. 

Just curious, why do you think the power is an issue. Are your lights flickering and dim? Maybe your local news is pointing out issues?

This is an interesting discussion. Near Boston where I live and during the heat wave last week , I noticed two things; a duller less articulate sound and the voltage/bias meters on my 300B mono locks had gone from the constant a reliable reading of +/- 92 volts to the high 80’s. My electrician who is a bit of an audiophile himself said not to worry. He explained that when the whole Northeast is experiencing 100 degree weather the demand it puts on the grid can easily affect the voltage at the receptacle. Sure enough once outdoor temperatures were 15 degrees cooler my amps were back to showing 91+ voltage at each tube and the sound was once again back to normal.