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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: If Only...Posted by Paul S on: 12/27/2009
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Hard to say for sure where all the trouble reported with regenerators comes from, but I absolutely agree that the opportunity is still there to make a simple and straight-forward success of a model (not just one example...) that actually consistently passes critical audio muster.  Just because plenty of people buy and use all kinds of worthless crap does not mean at all that there is no pent-up demand for something that really works.  And besides, the herd effect always applies.  Once word of a good one gets around, they'd sell a boatload.

Back to APS troubles, I can't help but think that some plain, old-fashioned, forthright honesty would go a long way.  I recently read some posts from an APS wonk claiming outright to an HT group that there is absolutely no difference in sound from the Pure Power whether the thing is going only from battery or it is running from wall power.  In fact, he cited this as absolute proof that the thing "works", as advertised.  Too bad it is more important to justify than it is to just keep listening and trying to get it right.

Would an honest company with balls have ever gotten so far into it like this?  I don't know.  But I wonder. 

I'm thinking the technical part is probably more do-able than some people make it out to be.  But it sure seems like engineers rarely make good audio evaluators.  Certainly, marketing people do not.  I think what's usually missing during development is ongoing, significant go/no-go evaluations based on sonic results and reliability in use, rather than cost analyses, marketing strategies and production timelines.

Good on anyone who seriously takes this up.  By the way, I'll be OK with a Beta, as long as everyone acknowledges in front and thereafter that it's a Beta...

Since APS is currently all but invisible,  maybe giving it another try for real (or spinning it off...) would actually help them out.

Paul S

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