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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #259: Pure Power by anafield on 2009-02-18 
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With interest I read the posts about the mains / power and the effect on hifi gear. The conclusion why and how electricity thus have an impact and the overall sound of our system is influenced by it is actually quite simple. Generally the mains is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #282: Good power equals good sound by beachbum on 2009-02-20 
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By far the addition of this device has made serious improvement to what my ears are hearing. I know there a lot of technical reasons for good or bad power values in the area of power line gear for our stereo systems. In my case i'm letting my ears de...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #372: A new ‘strange’ power conditioner: Dmitri from Running Springs Audio by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-13 
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This weekend I was told that there is a new power conditioner out there: Dmitri from Running Springs Audio. I never heard the company and have no idea that they are, what they do and what the stand for. A quick search lead me to number of posi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #194: Bass behaviour of power amps by el`Ol on 2009-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Recently a German hifi magazine started measuring bass responses of power amps under load. Unfortunately I only had a short glance into the article at a railway station book store, so I don´t remember what exactly they did, but the winner in the 5K i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #409: Regenerating Power options.... by gravetones on 2009-10-21 
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Hi, Have been going through this thread with great interest. Am also in the market for a good regenerator and have been doing some reading up on the online converting UPS. would anyone have any experiences with any of the commercial online UPS...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #445: The perfect electricity to power a… garbage disposal. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-01 
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Thanks, Ric. I do not know what they do with power generation but I guess in the end they will have some kind of inverter that would convert their low voltage DC making Energy Servers posses into AC. In the light of my forthcoming move I deal nowaday...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Power Conditioning not the way to go by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]One of the greatest area where a lot of done but with zero success is the power treatment – the electricity still is the main bitch of audio in my world. Well, I should not say that what among what is done everything has ze...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #475: A person who has god sounding power lines? by clarkjohnsen on 2010-03-15 
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Never met one such!I can't help but think, however, that turntables should employ batteries....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #126: Power & ULF channels by jessie.dazzle on 2010-05-12 
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You might find that you don't need that much power.When I first built the ULF channels I assumed they would require loads of power, so I bought a single, mono, 1KW class D amp to use in testing. Then I tried driving them with a pair of M1.1s that I h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #591: New smart layout of the power cables by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-23 
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I think it needed to be expended what I mean by “new smart layout of the power cables”. What you run a large system than you have many circumstances when power cables cross signal cables. Not only that. The PDO cables are liquid filled and they do no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #614: Bass deficienies on power lines by Jorge on 2010-12-05 
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Well,  thanks for the heads up, I was planning on giving myself a PP2000 for Xmas, now I have to re think this.I used to have a 10Kva Isolation transformer and a DIY sort of Line conditioning system with a bunch of nice 4.7 mfd caps between Positive ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #949: Dimmers and bad power by Canuck on 2011-12-21 
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  From what I understand, if you have dimmer switches they will present a "noise" problem for anything on the same panel.  One thing that could help and possibly significantly would be to do a pony box off the panel and hopefully as far away as possi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #868: PurePower drives switching power supplies. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-30 
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[quote user="thrang"] the capability of a PurePower 2000 for the components I have? I'm thinking of purchasing one...  Given the peak output performance of the 2000, I'm thinking I can connected all of the following  2 - JL Audio F113 sub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: SH50 power by decoud on 2011-09-06 
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For what it is worth, unless you are irradiating a concert hall, the SH50 is perfectly adequately driven by a 15W single 845-based SET, and I will shortly find out what it sounds like with a full range Melq. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #747: Power by unicon on 2011-01-29 
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JoacoThanks for sharing But Can you mention the name of the product too ?The manufacturer Site is in Spanish and I could not find out which one is it.Another question is do you reckon that they will ship single unit outside usa too ?Thanks.  unicon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #843: Spectral analyzing the power lines? by N-set on 2011-04-14 
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Sorry for being naive, but may gathering spectral fingerprints of the electricityduring bad and good days give something? Perhaps after N samples some pattern might emerge, although I guess nobody knows what to look for. Also, is that certain that th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #639: Solar power by Jorge on 2010-12-11 
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I talked for a couple of hours today with a local Solar Power technician,  I sort of told him all the gear I have that would need to run on batteries and we got a shaky number; from that number he started calculating a bunch of panels and batteries a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #658: Pure Power 2000: trying to think logically. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-13 
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OK, here are my thoughts for today. Below is a very simplified schematic of Pure Power 2000 regenerator.  I do not know if it is, but I think that it is how it works. I do not think that it is different from any other on-line generator. At the li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #669: Issues with the Power Plants ? by Meiko41 on 2010-12-19 
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Dear Romy,You said that PS Audio never acknowledged any sound problem with old PP. Did you ever identify something "technically wrong" in the sinewave that a PPP outputs that peoples from PS could work on ?May be I miss your report on that point but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #695: Pure power- no problems by Bill on 2011-01-05 
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Either my ears have gone bad or I must be the luckiest user of pure power regenerators. Have been using three for four months now and am still bowled over the improvement in my system. No matter what time of day I listen it sounds superb, but I do no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Free power by Michaelz on 2007-06-08 
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Does this mean one may one day get free power from the neighbors?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Networks as power sinks and source-able LF by Paul S on 2008-04-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
Believe, me, I agree wholeheartedly that  running the DX4 down to 150 Hz is sub-optimal.  In my case it is a compromise that has more to do with working efficiency vs. aural continuity than SPLs.  I have also though of adding...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #137: Power supply by peter foster on 2008-08-04 
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Dear Romy, your adventures with PurePower appear to be frustrating.  As an alternative, have you considered contacting the equipment maintenance department of a local hospital to discuss equipment that they use to ensure pure power to instrument...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #175: SET usable power and making the most of it by floobydust on 2009-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
 Well... tis for all reading/following this thread. As Romy pointed out, having high gain is not the same as power. And as Adrian hinted at... the overall system paradigm is important. If you're only barely cracking the volume control on yo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: The APS PurePower: the basic misunderstanding by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-27 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... I will showily dump in this thread some observations of mine about APS PurePower regenerator... [/quote]If you, I, they, we, whoever… consider APS PurePower as just a power treating or regenerating devise then I feel th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #448: AC motor Generator by Amir on 2010-03-02 
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AC power generation with gas seems to be a good idea, my friend had a idea about using AC motor coupled to AC generator for generating AC power.he told me we can use 50hz (in iran AC frequency is 50hz) AC motor (connected to home AC power) for genera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #776: Not so similar at all! by oxric on 2011-03-08 
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Hi Jaoco:It's actually rather reassuring that you have 230v in Chile so that if you report positively on an Equi-Tech unit, I will not have to worry that something could be lost in translation as one goes from a 110V unit to their 230v european count...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Power Conditioning not the way to go by Vasyachkin on 2010-03-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]One of the greatest area where a lot of done but with zero success is the power treatment – the electricity still is the main bitch of audio in my world. Well, I should not say that what among what is done everything has ze...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1508: Is it not mad that we convert AC to DC then back to AC to finally get ... by rowuk on 2016-01-25 
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I have often thought that the necessity of a UPS comes from inadequate power supply design. Sure it is easy to buy a product to insert between the audio system and power line but at the end of the day, are we simply giving our power supplies an easie...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1824: Just 2 cents. by xandcg on 2022-07-31 
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[quote user="Amir"] ---------------------------------------------------   common internet information : it seems UPS/inverters/ACRegenarators react different to different loads .PSU design affect on load characteristics and not ...
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