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

Post Subject: Principles or PurepowerPosted by miab on: 2/7/2014

Eli,

I was in the same place at one time and accepted my listening as it was in relation to electricity. You say

"When [electricity] is good great and when is ok I live with it and when is terrible I just walk away".

This is fine to say and is your right but I will tell you that once a PurePower (or whatever other proper solution you find) unit is in your system you will no longer schedule your listening around the power company or whatever else is the culprit. We have a finite number of days here and why not enjoy them all. There are some excesses in life that should be culled but music listening is not one of them. You are angry, understood, and I had many delays with Purepower that made me think of giving up but they are merely an instrument to a goal. If there was another solution available then I am with you but I have not found one and neither anyone I know. I had a dac that took 10 months, a turntable bearing a year and two compression drivers that took almost three years to arrive. All of them had me wanting to give up on them but persevered for the goal. I have spoken to Damien and Richard many times and they have always been courteous and polite although not always timely. I never felt they were taking me for a ride but that they were perhaps technically in their heads and not so much sales pushers. Eli, I think it is easy for you to follow your principals because you have not heard yet what your missing. Pick the very best day/night of electricity you have ever heard (perhaps only a couple days a year) and then imagine being 99% of that all the time. It will allow you to mature sonically towards all of the other components in your system. It allows you to find the real limits of upstream components and makes for a nice to tool form your sound.

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