Years ago I bought an Audience AR-6 power conditioner. I lived in a big city, the house was built in the early fifties and it really made a difference in in the sound quality. A few years later, I moved to the country in a new house that was built on what was a cow pasture. When I set up my hifi, I didn’t put the AR-6 in and I really didn’t hear anything bad. After a week-ten days, I reintroduced the AR-6 and heard NO difference, but I I kept it in for the magnetic breaker in it. Six years ago, I moved back to the big city, into a home built in 1962 and had to but the AR-6 In pretty quick.
So I guess what I’m saying is can depend on where you’re living, how your house is wired, how your subdivision is wired and how many people you’re in your immediate area you are sharing with and for me now, I have a six story office building less than a thousand feet from me.
Does a good power conditioner reduce need for power supply upgrade?
Would like to hear Agoner’s opinion on this topic. It appears to me that power conditioning as a part of power distribution role for your whole system, and high end external power supplies designed to either replace and beef up internal linear supplies (e.g. Naim approach) or to replace cheap switching wall warts or internal supplies supporting a single piece of equipment have a similar function, that being to reduce noise without restricting current.
Interested in what you think.
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