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

Post Subject: Doing the bourbakiPosted by steverino on: 11/5/2011

Romy says

"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."

If I may summarize extended metaphor, I think the issue can be summarized as " one fault or blessing hides something else." We have all had the experience I think as we moved from lofi to something higher of fixing one problem and then finding another. LoFiers often like a full heavy bass because of the harsh midrange and treble they endure. The bass tends to fill and mask the bad midrange. If they somehow get a system with a better midrange /treble then they notice the bass more because it starts to get in the way of the nice midrange. Or to continue with your female examples, a woman might use heavy makeup to hide pimples but if her face clears up the makeup begins to feel objectionable. On the blessing side if a person loves small scale music for example, they will find a system that excels on midrange a wonderful blessing. They are able to ignore the flaws elsewhere until perhaps they hear someone with a good full range system.and hear things they didn't know were there.

It's only recently that the problem of powerline garbage on sonics has been addressed in a widespread way. Intellectually people knew it was an issue since industries had had to deal with those problems in certain applications for many years or people in countries with lousy powergrids. Now that the powerline issue is on its way to being solved any problems masked by it suddenly can be heard more clearly. For myself, I found one other slightly related problem in static electricity and in magnetization of the signal path. On cold winter days when the humidity is very low I tend to hear slightly worse sonics. I also have found that using a surface demagnetizer* on lps and using pink noise cds to "flush" the signal path for an hour or so removes a haze similar if milder than powergrid garbage.

* i mean a garden variety cheap surface demagnetizer not the hideously overpriced audiofool models.

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