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Are we all in agreement that up to now "the best power" in terms of sound has been the best wall power?

Maybe this has something to do with the fact that on a good day there is a LOT of current pushing the "best" wall power into a system that was literally designed for it.

I have also noticed that on the best power days the system is much quieter, which I have attributed to quiet ground as much as "correct", quiet "power".

Could any of Avicenna's problems be ground related?  It seems like every component and every combination of components has it's own best ground solution.  Why would a conditioner or regenerator be any different?

I also wonder if system backwash and/or inter-component crosstalk are factors.

At this point I am inclined to think that if the conditioners and regenerators do not sound good, then they are "doing something wrong" to the power vis-a-vis the load/system, "perfect sinusoid" notwithstanding; we just don't know exactly what they are doing wrong yet, or why, whether it's fixable, or how to fix it.

Curve balls?  Some conditioners hate inductors; some hate big capacitors; some hate both.

But the simple balanced "test" load is an abstraction, basically irrelevant for predicting sound via music.

Romy's tests are the only ones I have seen to date that show actual traces of the output of a system-loaded regenerator.

No wonder we are still trying to figure this out; no one who builds and markets these things actually bothers to test them using relevant criteria; all they ship are Betas.

If "perfect sinusoids" don't sound right, then I think there is either more to it than that or we should be looking elsewhere for symbolic cues that actually signify good-sounding power.

Best regards,
Paul S

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