Bill wrote:

I compared the sound of the new units in bypass compared to the old units running normally and they were very close with the new ones having slightly tighter bass and less noise. In full mode there's no comparison. Thus, as far as the bypass problem, it really isn't one for 99.9% of buyers as only reviewers need to throw the bypass switch more than once or twice a day, if at all as one would be crazy to listen to the units in bypass except for elevator music time, or to keep source equipment warmed up.

Bill wrote:

I don't know how much current his amps pull on turn on but I was running just two of the 1500's with 20 channels of amplification including two large subwoofer amps and 4 Class A SET's and sundry source components turning on all at once and didn't have any problems with them going into bypass. Also, they were both running normally at 75% power, and on peaks I noticed that the 1500's were running at beyond 100% with no problem. I have since put the subs and rear channel amps on an old pp 2000, so the 1500's are now running at a steady 50% as all amps connected now to them are Class A. The 3000+ units are supposed to be able to sustain 200% peaks for 10 seconds, or about 6000 v-a, so Romy's must be sucking more than that on turn-on of his amps, so this could be alleviated by plugging in the amps separately.

Romy the Cat wrote:

I would rather feel that somehow PP precondition power to make our audio electronics to sound better. I think that PP still subjected to fluctuation of electricity quality... What it has to do with electricity? Hmmm, I do not know, perhaps it has very little to do with electricity….

I read it twice and I still do not get what it is.

http://www.isoteksystems.com/cgi-bin/products.pl?id=29

http://www.theaudiobeat.com/equipment/isotek_evo3_super_titan.htm

Enjoy the Music just published Bill Gaw’s write up about the new PP+:

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/viewpoint/0813/aa_chapter_165.htm

There is not a lot of information in there about PP’s sound, more logistics about PP company and products.

Romy the Cat wrote:

I made the 543rd remodeling on the Opera room and move the video playback equipment to the new, I hope the last location. As I connected everything into PP2000 as it use to be (not PP2000+) but older not “Plus” version than I have some light MF buzzing from loudspeakers. There is nothing wrong with the PP2000 as I use it for my main system for long time with absolutely silent operation. Now with only DVD player, Dish receiver, preamp and power amp I have noise.  All grounds are lifted and I wonder where the loop is coming from.  I will look into it further but it is kind of strange.

I spent good hour trying to configure and re-configure the system in order to get rid the loop noise. Ironically nothing worked still. I have no noise if I run CD played directly to poser amp, with all of them directly plugged to PP2000 and all grounds on PP2000 outs are lifted. However, when I plug a preamp, with is not connected to anything else besides the CD player then I get the noise. This is very very interesting and I do not have a solution yet. I did not have time last night to look further into it as Amy was watching in the Opera room the “Master and Margarita” on our new big screen:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Margarita-ENGLISH-SUBTITLES/dp/B000EANSXM

Neither I nor she was happy with English subtitles and I explained to her that it was because that horrible PP2000 regenerator delays the subtitle on the screen. She told me that I need to get rid of PP2000 and instead to buy or write a book “Audio Neuroticism for dummies”…