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Well,

The most miserable things about electricity that you never know what to do. I had in past different filters and mny imaginable power gismos, a number of isolated transformers, balanced transformers, regenerators…

For a couple years I was running five PS Audio P300 Power Plants: 4 P300 drove the 4 Lamm’s ML2.0 and one P300 drove the front end.  The Power Plants did OK job but when the electricity was good then the bare mains “sounded” better then the Power Plants. Also, the problems with electricity problems are not constant and sometime the mains begin to pump that “white noise”… This “white noise”… makes anything transparent to it and goes through anything, including the Power Plants. Eventually I stopped to use Power Plants somewhere in the beginning of 2002 as I recognized that Power Plants has own sound: upper mid range become slippery and too artificial and the entire harmonic effect of symmetric power did not make me too happy.

I have some guys that I know who build quite serious dedicated studios and home installations. They are radical enough and their solutions for powering home-level installation are starting from $50K-$60K. So, they suggested me that “nothing works” besides a complete physical decoupling from the power grid (they use own diesel-generators and it is what I would do if I did not live in city). I have 2 other solutions of good decoupling (with no butteries) and perhaps I will try them in future but they are hassles…

Frankly, I have no answer and no good recipe for power solution for myself as now. I ordered a CleanPower unit to try. It has some interesting futures (bypass, no balance operation, less magnetics) but I have no idea at this point how it sounds and if will not dive into “steps” at heavy load…

In your case Jessie, I do not think that 50Hz make a bid difference vs. the US 60. With P300 I use to run everything at 90Hz but it was not really a big deal. However during my experiments with European electronic I did fund that my 120V/200V ADDITIONAL TRANSFORMER did crap sound. I had a few transformers – all of then sound differently and all of them sound worth then what I did no use them. In US we have 110V but our power lines to our buildings are 220V, as least to my building. I use to have 220V feed and it was quite good. I do not know if it is so but I presume that European distributor transformer might have two secondaryes of 110V connected in series. If so then you might use one of your dedicated feed from juts a half of the secondary… BTW, if you go to this direction then be advised about that very ridicule phenomena that I have experienced…

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