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steverino wrote:

Why do you think the improved sonics were related to the residual noise or more precisely the hypothetical delta of noise components from one day to the next? You were very non specific about what was better and to what degree. If you are perceiving better sonics because of less noise from the equipment when not playing musics or greater perceived "blackness" between notes that might have some relationship. I would also suspect noise if I heard better treble without hearing as much relative improvement in the bass. However, other kinds of changes to sonics like dynamic headroom probably have little to do with minor changes in low level whistling noise levels…

Steverino, in my view very correctly pointed out that I did not name the specifics of what constitute better from my moment above. Definitely there are zillions different aspects of being better or worse, how from all that multitude of differences I recognize better electricity day and worse electricity day?

The people who have interest to monitor this thread do feel that it has the flowing sequence:

1)    Expressing frustration about sound of electricity
2)    Looking for a solution
3)    Discovering PurePower regenerator
4)    Experimenting and testing PurePower
5)    Dealing with PurePower’s idiosyncrasy
6)    Expressing a sentiment that “something” still gets path thought the PurePower
7)    Attribution of that “something” as something that is not directly related to electricity.

My primary objective of this post is to talk a bit about that “something” and how I see difference between the sound of that “something” and the sound of bad electricity. So, in my new definition the “bad electricity day” might not necessarily to be the bad day die to the electricity. Do not get me wrong. Electricity might be bad for Sound, might be horrible for sound but the point is that the bad electricity days sound different then bad days because of that “something”.  Below I will describe how the bad electricity days are different from the “because of something” days.

Frankly the subject of electricity does not bother me too much. Since the incident exactly a year back my PP2000 works flawlessly and it looks like address all the electricity problems. Yes, I do admit that sometimes, very seldom sound do turn bad and in distinctive electricity-cause fashion but at this point I am not convinced that it is become the PP2000 still passing somethubg. Regardless what it is the PP2000 not only deal with eclectic problem but make my playback to sound in the way how I like. So, is because it’s cure of electricity of because any other reasons but it turns out the PP2000 is unavoidable for me. Furthermore I got recently PP3000, will get it next week, so the PurePower here to stay and here to deal with electricity If that  “something else” does have affect on electricity then it looks like PP2000 has nothing to do with it as that something else does not come from the wall’s power outlet.

I do understand that I am in unique position to observe that “something else” as I do have fine performing playback, I do have good means to cure and to monitor electricity (do not forget that I always can run PP2000 from buttery and to be completely disconnected from grid), I have attention, interest and attentiveness  to observe the difference of my playback performance  at any given time and I have ability to discriminate results. So, without further sucking my own dick let me to outline the difference between the bad electricity days and the days when that “something else” screw up my Sound.

The sound during bad electricity days is all about noise, all imaginable noise; it is like fog, dull everything into some kind of universal grayness. The colors are dirty, the upper mid and HF are literary dirty, the HF are very resonant with very grainy texture. The bass might be anything electricity want. Sound has very high compression and all sounds come as one flat hit of brick wall in a face. Colors are not there and instead of colors we have injection of gray pallet into all colors. I can in many words describe the sound of bad electricity. I do not think I will be original – anyone who has not good electricity and do not use PP2000 have it and know this sound.

However, what happened when electricity is fine but sound still is screwed by “something else”? Let me to explain.

The main distinction that I make is noise. During the time when sound is ruined by “something else” there is no noise and there are no all above-mentioned and another typical for bad-electricity days problems. Instead of noise sound during this period what I call “dry and sticky”. I know dry and sticky do not work out together, trust me, they do. The sound that I am after and the sound that I am getting in my room is wet and distinctive. The distinctiveness of the notes, colors, textures, expressions, dynamic nuances presented atop of a large and wet canvas of music  what I like and what I always am aiming for. Generally audio people do not get it and hardly understand it, not to mention witnessed it but those who do I hope get the point. When everything is fine then my notes compete with each other for expressiveness. When the sound turn “dry and sticky” then this large wonderful wet  canvass of sound, sort of pedal-point of presentation is not there but instead  there is field of dry desert with extraneous  and not-irrelevant to music (or perception) dehydrated pressure.  The room feels like it is untreated acoustically, there is no echo or noise but there is a sense of dry emptiness and parched meaninglessness. Then there are sounds. The sounds are the same as they have to be but there are come all together as one clammy substance. Let me to give you an association. After your woman washed her hair she is fluffy and beautiful. Each of her hair sticks out independently and distinctively. She has a pile of hair on her head but with close examination your see million of individual hairs living their own lives, sticking out of head in own unique ways and leading own intricate direction among others. In our age of a women is not painted then each her hair has one colorations and discolorations, some turn whiter, some sorter, some god know what. In other words her head is a playground for Gaussian-distributed hairs. Now, pretend that she did not wash her dead for a day than what you see? The same hairs but they lost the fluffiness and individual hair lost individuality. Individual sounds during the ruined by “something else” period behave in the very same ways how hair appears in the head of an unwashed woman. So, during that time sounds are very sticky to each other and they are presented atop of very dry surface. Pretend that you cut your unwashed woman’s hair and while they are still moisture glued them to a newspaper in the middle of Sahara? Got the feeling?

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