I believe the Furman unit mentioned (and I also hear it is a great unit but somewhat pricy at retail)is also a regenerator and that in and of itself explains a lot. You are receiving a much lower distortion AC from it...whether from a dedicated line or not.
I have a PS Audio PPP and wish it was a 20 amp unit so I could use it with everything I have. It only puts out 1500 watts continous though so I run my main 600 watt/channel amp through a Hydra. I run all my source equipment, HT amp and TV through the PPP and it does indeed make a sonic difference.
One day the unit was off and passing regular unregulated/filtered AC as the lights went off the night before and the PPP shut down when the electricity came back on due to the surge(you just unplug it and plug it back in to reset it) and I turned on my stereo to listen to some music. It didn't have the dynamics and musical nature I was used to. I looked the system over and sue enough the PPP was off. After resetting it, the music came back to the same dynamics as usual.
Perhaps I am just used to the sound of my front end gear being plugged into the PPP but I did indeed notice a difference in sonics when it was on and off.
Point beinig is that I believe in power reconditioning and filtering from good units.
Maybe I should sell the PPP and Hydra 4 and get the Furman...
I have a PS Audio PPP and wish it was a 20 amp unit so I could use it with everything I have. It only puts out 1500 watts continous though so I run my main 600 watt/channel amp through a Hydra. I run all my source equipment, HT amp and TV through the PPP and it does indeed make a sonic difference.
One day the unit was off and passing regular unregulated/filtered AC as the lights went off the night before and the PPP shut down when the electricity came back on due to the surge(you just unplug it and plug it back in to reset it) and I turned on my stereo to listen to some music. It didn't have the dynamics and musical nature I was used to. I looked the system over and sue enough the PPP was off. After resetting it, the music came back to the same dynamics as usual.
Perhaps I am just used to the sound of my front end gear being plugged into the PPP but I did indeed notice a difference in sonics when it was on and off.
Point beinig is that I believe in power reconditioning and filtering from good units.
Maybe I should sell the PPP and Hydra 4 and get the Furman...