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

Post Subject: Bypass modePosted by Romy the Cat on: 6/13/2013

My own playback is not operational from PurePower for now but last night I visited a local audio guy who run him playback from two new PurePower+ units (right and left channels) and one old PurePower (LF section). It was very fine sound, probably the best sound I hear in his room. For sure I would not attribute the result explicitly to PurePower - he has A LOT in that room. Still, it was very interesting as his units have now a bypass switch that did work perfectly fine. I was surprised as during the Bypass operation the system did not sound as bad as I expected. We do have good electricity in New England nowadays, not as great as we had last week but still not bad.

You can say whatever you want but switching his playback back and forth to bypass it was very self-evident that I did not want to hear that playback in bypass mode. BTW, the PurePower+ in bypass mode is not a true bypass – some sort of filtration still is in the power path. Still, the result was very demonstrable. I wish the Pure Power made this Bypass feature remote controllable and I wish they specify what is in left in “signal” in Bypass mode. I wonder also if they shut down the whole regeneration during the Bypass mode or they just rout the power across the regenerator. It would be nice if they do shut down the whole re-generation as it would make the whole unit to be “non-radioactive” when it in Bypass mode.

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