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

Post Subject: A little observation and a questionPosted by joaco on: 2/6/2011

.... last week I opened my ups/regenerator and found some things that deslike me , I know that not always better componenets make a device sound better ,but I do not want anything that goes against my princples , this is very personal . Tha capacitors look like very generic ones , the same the manofacturing of the PCB , I called the guys and they told me "Taiwan" makes this device so I went back trip to talk about this issue ... They showed me a unit form a French manofacturer , somebody know it ?? "socomec" I told them to open it because I will not accept bad quality stuff again . For my surprise this time the PCB was excellent quality , very good traces and surface mounting device (smd) everywhere , so the semiconductors were totally different , electrolitics ara from Nichicon and fans are more quiet that the other unit . I now have this new unit and again , yesterday at night electricity was very good I connected everything direct to the wall and thought that the regenerator would not be able to do anything , for my surprise again , the cleaner sounds were present , first connected only the amp , then the dac , in both the same changes and one step forward in each one to a clearer sound . Any way ... this makes me wonder if electrolitic capacitors or any other highend component (resistors) can do a change in the way we listen to this devices and can lower the distortion or what is the component that can lower the distorion , can it be just the design , the hardware or both ?? what electrolitics is using pp ?? not to have them but to know if they design it with "high end components" in mind .

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