Anyone else regenerating A/C?

A more recent technology comparison would be the New PS Audio Power Plant Premier vs. the New Shunyata Hydra V-Ray. These are both new and updated technologies which should bring power conditioning to a new level. I also heard Furman has recently released some really good conditioners as well. I’m interested to hear anyone’s experiences with any of these fine products.

Ubglub: Neither the P3 nor the EP15A use iso-trannies for outlet/component isolation. The P3 has more (and, it would appear, more extensively) isolated outlets than does the 15A when used by itself, but both units use filters for that purpose, not iso-trannies. The Shunyatas, in common with most PLCs, are passive units that aren't transformer-based, so they can't regulate voltage or provide balanced AC (of course Shunyata would argue for the superiority of their approach based on other reasons).

The API Power Wedge Ultra 116 I use after my EP15A has six individual iso-trannies for source components and preamp, each individually selectable for balanced, floating, or regular operation. In my system balanced is almost always best sonically (but never worse) for each attached device as compared with the other settings, so I believe I can vouch for the general efficacy of balanced AC (which the P3 provides by itself). But there's no meaningful way I can make a comparison of whether the individualized level of inter-component isolation I'm getting is more beneficial than a lesser degree of isolation would be, without also introducing uncontrolled variables which would invalidate the test, though one assumes it couldn't hurt as such -- the possible exception being if the iso-trannies were in and of themselves inferior-sounding to another, filter-based approach (something I can't answer, other than to say that using the PWU results in better sound than just plugging my sources straight into the EP along with my power amp, *even if* balanced AC isn't selected on the PWU).

Hi I m currently using a EP15A. Anybody change to stock power cord? if yes, what do u like abt the changes brought abt by the new PC? Happy listening

Blazer, I have some excellent PC's but the best ones are my two Purist Dominus (Domini ?) anyway, I definitely use one on my amp (into my EP15) and I was going to use the other on my Wadia 27 DAC (a popular app for a big cord) but I called Jim Aud at Purist and asked him. He said if I only had two, to put one on the amp and the other on the EP. Of course I asked 'why?' and he said, "Energy transfer" (Jim's a man of few words ;--) But I pressed on and he explained that you want to have the biggest (AWG) and best PC's where you need the best energy transfer (ie where you are pulling the most power.) So (especially) if you have an amp plugged into you EP as I do, you need to feed the EP with a cord at least as big and high quality as the one on the amp.
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