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

Post Subject: Disagree. PP is not UPS unit.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/1/2015

steverino wrote:
Well I meant that in cases where the AC power wasn't simply larded with grunge but was irregular with outages you didn't need to be an audiophile to appreciate the product. Of course audiophiles find all kinds of things essential as connoisseurs customarily do. I guess we do have some disagreement as audiophiles on the relative Degree of significance for this component compared with alternatives. It may well be due to differences in audio systems and physical location/local AC. I am Not saying it has no benefit.

Well, I truly consider PP as a product that meant to resolve the problem with power interruptions. For sure it cable to do it and might be market in this way but I think that PP is out of depth in this direction. Ended if somebody lives in a part of a country where irregular electric supply means not irregularity of quality but actual outages then they for sure might appreciate the fact the PP would deal with it. however, the PP would be hardly a solution. The uninterruptible power supplies are not to meant to deal with power outages but meant to maintain power for a very short period of time until a standby generators kick in. So, if I need PP juts for that very utilitarian purpose - to care uninterruptible power for a few minutes until my natural gas generator start then I would hardly need the PP but I would use 4-5 times less expensive solution. There is an army of commercial UPS devises that use in datacenters, they are spectacular and super reliable. My servers are running protested by a few 1.5kW APC units, can't say better words about them. Sonically however the commercial UPS devises are not good, with external power supply or not. So, in my view the benefits and the main reason of PP is not serving as uninterruptible devise but rather to serve as "good sounding device". One might ask a question differently: does PP sound good because it "fix" (let say partially fix) the incoming power or because it just itself sound good and overrides many of electricity problem. I do not have an answer to this question.

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