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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: Wrong questions lead to wrong answersPosted by rowuk on: 2/12/2023
We have no proof what a UPS does. Intellectually, we are attracted to the separation of wall AC and our hifi. Unfortunately, that is obviously NOT the problem as too many real time UPS still sound "bad".
The next intellectual assumption is that our HiFi needs sine waves and this also has NEVER been able to have been proven.
Then we have battery driven stereo - again with the same myths and problems!
Now we have an assumption that AC supply impedance is the issue - Do we want to bet that we still have the same problems?
My opinion is that if a device sounds bad on bad electricity days, that device is bad - not the AC supply. The best that we can hope for is to change our listening times where the AC supply is supposedly not as corrupted (also an assumption).
We need to demand that our amps and preamps as well as sources are properly built for the environments where they are typically used. I find threads like these are totally useless as we have no process for defining better - rather only the typical "high end" BS terminology. Do I care if Amir suffers? No. In my opinion, he needs a better process, not more gear.
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