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

Post Subject: Did you pray to your power outlet yet?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/26/2012

Canuck wrote:
Romy Do you plan on trying the new PurePower Plus and if so when? Maybe they should send you a loaner to try for a decade or so.

Canuck, I do not know. I am for sure would like to try it and I most probably will. I have seen that some people have mention on-line that the have, or expect to get it any day, it means that PurePower have shipped them. The new unit will have voice-activated bypass but I am afraid that it will not recognize my British accent. To be more serious – I would like the new PurePower Plus units to get more maturity on the field. Some functionally are very promising. The separation of battery and regenerator is very cool but the question is where they located the charger circuit? If it is on battery side then it is wonderful as the noise of the charger PS will not affect the regenerator anymore – this is HUGE. The tighten stabilization of voltage is also very good and might be a sign of better new design. The increase of power handling is also huge. The move from PP2000 to PP3000 was superbly positive (am am not kindling) for my playback and if the new PP3000 will have even mode power then it will be only beneficial even more.

My main concern is the lower distortion that they claim and elimination the “fuzziness”. This is very good sign but the question is the sign of what might it be. They might eventually have addressed whatever problem created the “fuzziness”. That would be very welcoming news. They might just defeat the “fuzziness” by adding more capacitors after the output stage. It will make the “fuzziness” gone but it will kill sound along the way. I do not know what they did and I do not think they will tell but the result whatever they did has to be well auditable. I do know that I will keep my wonderful working PP3000 with death grip and when I get the PP3000 then will compete with my PP3000.

There is another “ugly” subject. The new PP3000+ might have the “fuzziness” fixed in the right way and to be a wonderful unit but it might not sound as good as old PP3000 juts because it has no “fuzziness”. It is possible that the “fuzziness” in fact create some kind of virtual dither that makes the line noise less auditable. Sine I have no idea why the PurePower sound so good I do keep all options on the table. I am sure that in one way or another I will try it but I do not know when and I am not in harry to do it as my current unit works fine. There was a few weeks back some not as good “electricity sound” but that period has gone, knock on wood. I have sacrificed a chicken and donated a dozen of bagels to a local synagogue. I hope God will recognize my deeds and so not send the electricity plague to my town anymore… A friend of mine advised me that the yoga position in which you plug your power cord is very critical to sound. So, I bought a fresh copy of Kamasutra and study all different positions to deal with power cables. I can already plug the power cords with my left paw…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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