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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 positive comments about Dmitri on line and the Robert Harley’s review the “The Absolute Sound” this year.

http://www.avguide.com/review/tested-running-springs-audio-dmitri-ac-power-conditioner

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?raccs&1245823401&read

It does not look that any of the people who say anything about Dmitri mention the theory of the operation. The Running Springs Audio’s site also does not give a clear idea what they do:

http://www.runningspringsaudio.com/technology.htm

http://www.runningspringsaudio.com/philosophy.htm

http://www.runningspringsaudio.com/techinfo.htm

It is not mandatory and I might accept the concept of “black box” – after all it is only Sound the matters. The experience with my Avicenna Regenerator that out a prefer power from all perspective but has no impact to sound did threw me off…

I read the Robert Harley review and after I did it as realized how desperately I miss my “beloved” Srajan Ebaen. Srajan makes good pictures, tell stories how wonderful the company’s secretary dog is, then discuss briefly the problem of poodle breeding in Nicaragua and the “review” is done. With all Moronity of this approach Srajan made a very smart move do not even write about sound or about the things that are matter. This is VERY smart as he is killing two birds with one stone:  he does not expose to readers that he is a fucking Moron who has not idea about Sound but the  manufactures feel that they were reviewed, hence leaving for Srajan the opportunity to extort his typical fees-benefits. With all idiocy of this Srajan’s reviewing I kind of turn to like and I take Srajan’s articles as not more than new snippets.

Robert Harley wants to write an “analyses review”, putting himself in some kind authoritarian position to judge the Dmitri’s sonic benefit. The fact that Mr. Harley year after year just xeroxing the same audiophile brain structured, high-impact intended colloquialism is irrelevant. The absolute same semantics he used about a few power devises he “revered” in past: Equitech, Monster, Shunyata, Adept and a few others. Those devised sounded like shit but the goal was accomplished and many brown tracks went to delivery – the well-oiled mechanism of audio reviewing-distribution acted flawlessly. Still, if the cheerleader Robert Harley raises her cheerleader skirt too high and you are unwillingly see under the skirt the dirty underwear and ugly harry legs then it is not necessary mean that the game will be bad… so, who knows…

The comments of the people who said about the Dmitri’s power conditioner are interesting, primary about bass. What is necessary is to learn what they mean by bass. Robert uses Wilson Alexandria and Spectral DMA-360 amps. Wilson is 4th order band-pass, has very good mid bass but very questionable lower bass.  Spectral 360 has very low but very mechanical bass. So, it might be interning what is Robert’s definition of good bass and how Dmitri’s might interact with this Robert’s bass. The Audiogon guy runs Magnepan with Martin Logan Subwoofers powered by Pass and he listening jazz. Yep, the view of this guy about bass is something that I value as much as I value the views of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about history…

With all that said it looks everyone notices that Dmitri’s power conditioner improves dymick, at least it is what people say. That is very good sign if it so. My concern is not about the improving dymick but about preservation of a proper length of harmonic decay. Many power devises create a feeling of dymick increase but they do it by transacting the harmonic tails – that is not good. Mr. Harley’s comments: “Dmitri made the system sound lighter” make me wonder: doe this lightness comes from striping harmonics of from something else. Robert said nothing about harmonic (not power harmonic but sound harmonic) but this is in fact the key in reference to which all improvements must be projected. One of the greatest accomplishments of PP200 (and it is the only power devises among those that I witness doing it so far) is that doing all its improvements it looks like it does not screw up harmonic pattern of Sound. I am not saying that Dmitri’s power conditioner might behave differently – I just do not know. It is might wish that you – the industry reviewing Morons who read this posts – include the observation about harmonics in your furfures reviews of the Running Springs Audio Dmitri. Also, I would like people with SET amplification use Dmitri and I would like to hear their comments about a relationship between loading and use of Dmitri power conditioner.

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