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Post Subject: PS Audio new re-generator P20.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/24/2018
It looks like PS Audio release their new most powerful
regenerator P20. It is 2KW, $10K and they sell it honestly: free in-home trial.
As readers of my site know I am not a proponent of type regeneration that PS
Audio does. The Class AB regeneration loos a lot in dynamic in transformer,
filtration and a few other things. I do not know is it belong the Class AB
regeneration topologically of it is specific to the PS Audio implementation. I
had 5 Power plants and they worked questionably. It turned out the I am in Class
D regeneration camp. Again, I do not know if it is topological or it is because
the PP3000 specific implementation. Anyhow.
It will be very interesting to compare the PP3000 vs
the new P20.I am not the one who has interest to do it but I am the one who
would like to hear about the result. Theoretically more powerful unit of Class
AB regeneration should have advantage compare to less powerful Class AB
regeneration unit. Still, I do not know if it will be enough to overcome the Class
AB regeneration dynamic restriction compare to Class D regeneration.
Anyhow, I would like to pass a few comments about the new P20
that I am sure will be missed from “reviews” that will be coming over the next
few years. The new P20 has a sexy display, on-board distortion analyzer and on-board
oscilloscope. Unquestionably they are great future and something the I was
advocating in past. Well, get it from the person who know a lot about usability
of power regenerators and who spend many years to deal with sonic effect of bad
electricity: these axillary futures are not necessary if the unit produce good
sound. If you have a good regenerator that make comfortable to you sound then
you plug it in and forget about it for years. All these sexy meters and distortion
analyzers you need ONLY if the unit does not sound good. The only features the
you need, and I can’t convince people to understand it, is a remote control
that flip a regenerator in and out od bypass mode. The regenerators consume a
lot of own power. The PS Audio are probably 50% efficient, the APS probably 80%.
If you are not listening your playback and like most of audio people power some
components all time then there is no need for you run your regenerator in regeneration
mode, the bypass is totally sufficient. As you sit to least your system you punch
a button, sending your regenerators in regeneration mode and it is all that a sensible
regenerator should have. If you feel a need to look at big colorful display and
to read the power distortion numbers then you do something wrong and you need
to change ether regenerator or you hobby.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site