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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: Some observations .Posted by joaco on: 2/1/2011

As im using the regenarator as described and found it well suited for my needs I will keep on posting my personal findings and thoughts . Yesterday I went to a local friends house to try it . This person has a dedicated line inside his house ... but let me tell you first that here in Chile I have found houses with 208V all the way through 230V , they say the "official voltage is 220V" . First measure we got was 218V , but very instable , going all the way down to 206V , please note the dedicated line of this guy was doing nothing about this because we measure the same voltage with his house line , the problem of this guy is that he use a very high current 811 monoblocks and sure they needs 230V for proper filament operation , giving only 24 watts his speakers does not meet the specs for sensitivity , unless that is what I feel . He has around 91dB , so the bass has always been a problem for him , not controlled , superficial , a total disaster . Only one of those pigs load a 30% on the regenerator . We end up with a 70% load .... Anyway the bass was controlled inmediately , goes deeper , and the focus was much better , I told this guy that I will not comment anything for him about my experience because I did not want to wash his brain . He end up tellling me the same changes I found in my system , but in a lesser way . Now I think changes with regenerators can show or not in different degrees depending of proper/improper chain , beyond that the improper matched amp/speakers showed up in voices , because of the clean change we were able to listen clearly the distortion coming from the mid driver when voices ten to be a little high . We did feel this almost always but now it is evident ... so with this experience the bypass that romy likes will depend on each individual home and its own voltage problems . i.e using the bypass showed 206V at the output , but we did not make any comparison , I have talked to this guy again and he confirmed that listening without the regenerator was painfully , now he want the same one . Im not sure if I would recomend this for him or anyone as the first thing he need do is a proper match for his amps/speakers ... the ghost of harsh harmonics during the morning has not come back . (until now?)

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