Seeking advice re: complex power conditioning

The PS Audio unit, as stated above, is a vastly superior solution to any other type of power conditioner. I will throw in another solution equally as expensive and even more demanding of space, but better than all of them put together: A motor-generator, aka a big electric motor hooked straight to a big electric generator, available from several industrial motor and phase converter manufacturers. They run in the multi-K range and need to be isolation-mounted somewhere far from your listening room (garage for example, or a separate shed), but will provide an absolutely perfect waveform with tremendous current capacity, and 100% total line-to-load isolation, meaning that ANYTHING coming down the line WILL NOT make it into your system. Plus they're very power-efficient, usually around 90%, rather than the 25% or so (just a guess) that the PS Audio will run. Just something to think about....

Re; PCTower's comments, I was considering the PS Audio P300 then decided to get the Virtual Dynamics power cords instead. Enough said.

SoundApplication works well for me creats no heat uses no power.

Karls, maybe I am stupid, but why do you need a motor- generator and a electric-generator. Wouldn't be a motor- generator, say 5KW, be enough?I probably do not get it, and since I played with this generator idea myself, would you mind explaining the set-up in detail?

I've had a fair amount of experience with motor generators in research science and computers. As Karls states they can't be beat for high demand current at the top of the ac wave form (especially if the setup has a fly wheel). The practical efficiency will be below 90% because the demand will not be constant unless you run monster class A amps, however 75% plus sounds about right. But there are a few caveats.

Most are VERY noisy and will need special sound muffling installation. Outside, I have a 5 KW motor driving a hydraulic motor for a counter current exercise pool. It’s designed to be quiet, on a separate concrete foundation and it is in a noise reducing enclosure. It is still pretty noisy in operation. It is much noisier than the 1 HP pool filter motor. There is no way you would be able to eliminate the vibrations if the motor generator was installed on the same concrete foundation as your house, so that eliminates the basement and the garage for installation locations.

I would also look at the spec's to make sure that the combo is designed to run electronic/hospital instruments. The industrial phase converters aren't elegant when it comes to not generating some hash (noise). My 5KW motor does.

Since the motor generator will be fairly far away from the listening room you will need to be careful with your cable run so that you don’t pick up noise or cause a current drop.

Then there is that great question of for safety against lightning since the motor generator ground will be some distance from the service ground. If the city requires that the motor generator’s output be tied to ground at the service entrance you are connected back to a noise source.

If you are in a city, the city will probably require a licensed engineer to do the design including redoing the ground for your AC service. If you have a contractor do all this expect around $ 8 - $15 K based on my hydraulic motor experience.

However, done right, nothing can beat a motor generator for clean, efficient, high current power delivery.