Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice
If one goes the regenerator route, do they also need a conditioner?No, you don't need both. A regenerator takes imperfect AC from the mains and generates the signal into a new clean sine-wave without noise and distortion. It's creating a new AC signal. Conditioners usually apply filtering to the incoming AC to remove noise and grunge. It then passes this signal through to it's output. |
I also have a whole house surge protector. It’s purpose is to protect all electrical devices in the house from spikes, fluctuation in the incoming power, and lightning strikes. It doesn’t clean the dirty power coming into the house from the grid. I live in a city where power is dirty and has distortion that can be heard through my speakers as noise. That’s why I use a power conditioner. It lowers the noise floor, it’s providing higher S/N. The best advise given was to look thru the archives and read the threads relating to "dedicated line." |
Declare looks like a very good power conditioner. They explain exactly how it works using filtering. PS Audio is a power regenerator. I think you should go to their website or a review to understand how it works. I use balanced power. The unit separates the hot and neutral from ground and filters the noise from the mains and other components, then outputs a much cleaner AC signal to be used by the audio system. A new signal isn't regenerated, a much cleaner signal is the result. The Decware looks like it uses a similar process. |
hilde45, my comment about learning how the PS Audio works was not directed at you. Clearly, there is no need to double up with a power conditioner plus regenerator. I use a Core Power Equi=Core 1800 which is a balanced power unit. After reading the Decware website, their conditioner works on a similar principle but is not fully-balanced. The Decware is a standalone device as is the EquiCore as is a PS Audio reconditioner. The PSA does everything a conditioner does plus more; it generates a new sinusoidal AC signal, rather than outputting a cleaned version of the original. |
Thanks to the late great Almarg. I can't find a review of the Decware. Here is a review explaining how balanced power conditioning works. https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/core-power-technologies-equicore-1800-mk2/ |
@jdoris I'm sure everybody appreciates those lovely heartfelt words. I'll pause the thread a moment for you... https://forum.audiogon.com/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Almarg |
