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

Post Subject: That all about the residual difference.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/22/2014

Lx_, it is so and not. I never made a secret that PP has some sensitivity to line before it but for the people who do not use it the degree of the comment would not be possible to understand. Even for PP the relative degree of the comments like my comment above would be not always clear.
A PP unit, if it works properly, for sure does superbly positive impact to sound but there is a twist in this statement, I have written about it in past.

You see, we plug PP that presumably "cleans" electricity and we feel that the improvement that we get come because the electricity was made better, It very much might be so but it also possible that improving of electricity was only a contributive factor. PP might precondition PS of electronics with own "switching power" that make electronics to sound better regardless of quality of electricity. For sure it does impacts the quality electricity but I have hard time to say what percentage of PP beauty is responsible for it.

I think what would be very interesting to experiment is to feed PP with some kind of other power devise. I did experimented with 3-5kW isolation transformers and it was not good - the all kill lower octave - ironically the fact of killing LF did go over the PP. I was trying the capacitor-base noise suppresser before PP and it also did not work well - Sound become to remind me a wet dog. I did not try some of those super expensive caps that reportedly could work on AC without damaging sound but I am not ready to pay $5K juts for an experiment.

I think as people use PP the concept of "open source" would pay off soon or later somebody find some kind of PP preconditioned that would even further stabilize the power lines. For sure PP is a "giant leap of mankind" into the word of power treatment of playback but now we the PP users need to learn how to ride the lunar rower on the moon's dust...

BTW, I very much disagree with you about your ideas of several additional batteries and running PP away from mains. That is conceptually a white flag not to mention the low practicality of the ideas. If you insist to use batteries then you do not need any PP, the step down transformers in your electronics, the rectification, filtration and many other things. Run you army of batteries directly to your operating voltages and you would be all set. Again, I do not think that people who are in that camp should even consider to use AC treatment devises like PP.

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