Thanks for the response Grant. Having said what you did though, you never provided any type of rebuttal pertaining to the facts that the outlets are all wired in daisy-chain fashion with the resultant potential for heavy current draw to modulate the AC voltage & current available to other devices or that there isn't the potential for crosstalk / cross-contamination from outlet to outlet.
Parallel filters are just that i.e. parallel to the existing path. That doesn't mean that these filters absolutely will absorb all of the incoming or outgoing noise, just that there is a parallel path to the filter for the noise to take outside of heading into the next component or back into the main AC feed.
Having said that, I would be curious as to what level of "isolation" is provided from one outlet to the other outlet within the duplex and how much isolation there is from one duplex to the next. Obviously, this would be somewhat frequency dependent, but if Shunyata has conducted the exhaustive type of R&D that you claim that they have in designing this series of products, all of this data should be readily available. For that matter, the amount of voltage / current that can be pulled from one outlet without creating sag in any other outlet within a Hydra should also be a matter of recorded data that i and many others would be interested in. I say that because others have questioned the use of a Hydra for both their amplifier(s) and line level components simultaneously.
As far as having an agenda, i'm not involved in the audio industry in any way, shape or form. I'm simply sharing my own technical observations and analysis based on the descriptive information as provided by your website and other sources that supposedly received their information directly from Shunyata. Feel free to confirm or deny any of it at your leisure, but please be at least somewhat specific in your response. Saying that something doesn't happen or isn't possible when logic dictates that such things do occur and / or are possible isn't much of a reply from a company that makes high profile, high cost products of a technical nature. Sean
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Parallel filters are just that i.e. parallel to the existing path. That doesn't mean that these filters absolutely will absorb all of the incoming or outgoing noise, just that there is a parallel path to the filter for the noise to take outside of heading into the next component or back into the main AC feed.
Having said that, I would be curious as to what level of "isolation" is provided from one outlet to the other outlet within the duplex and how much isolation there is from one duplex to the next. Obviously, this would be somewhat frequency dependent, but if Shunyata has conducted the exhaustive type of R&D that you claim that they have in designing this series of products, all of this data should be readily available. For that matter, the amount of voltage / current that can be pulled from one outlet without creating sag in any other outlet within a Hydra should also be a matter of recorded data that i and many others would be interested in. I say that because others have questioned the use of a Hydra for both their amplifier(s) and line level components simultaneously.
As far as having an agenda, i'm not involved in the audio industry in any way, shape or form. I'm simply sharing my own technical observations and analysis based on the descriptive information as provided by your website and other sources that supposedly received their information directly from Shunyata. Feel free to confirm or deny any of it at your leisure, but please be at least somewhat specific in your response. Saying that something doesn't happen or isn't possible when logic dictates that such things do occur and / or are possible isn't much of a reply from a company that makes high profile, high cost products of a technical nature. Sean
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