Power filtering – Furutech or Puritan Audio?

I think the REF I5i is made by Furman, not Furutech...

Sounds like you are enjoying the PSM 156 (not PMS!).

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Here is another reason to go with Puritan: I bought a groundmaster for my PSM156 4 months ago, and finally got around to driving in a 6' ground rod, fishing some solid core copper along the joists, down the wall, etc. and hooked it up. 

Does my PSM156 just sound "twice" as good as it did before? 😯 

I'll do some further assessment, maybe get my daughter to do an A/B, as it is so easy to do compared to cable unhooking, and do a writeup in the near future, but for now I don't want to unplug it :) 

Just to follow up regarding a groundmaster connected to the PSM156, I must have had a really good night sound-wise at that moment in time. Was that the purity of the electricity or my ears, I don't know. Just now going back and forth plugging and unplugging in the ground master I don't notice any difference at all. This is a fun and yet frustrating hobby; reminds me of golf. 

@wig well that is what I was wondering- it didn’t sound any better, noticeably, right after hooking it up, but it may have been 2 days later, and I was quite taken back by how good the system sounded.

A few days later and I get around to A/B’ing it, but once I unplug do you think, or have your read, that that "undoes" what was a decent "settled" ground to earth? I would think, you know the speed of electricity being what it is, once it is plugged in it would instantly ground.

I know Puritan does state that a wet soil will ground better, and more rods would only improve it, but of course it is hard to know whether one has an excellent ground or not, and how this varies day to day.

not classi- crock - fan

You really think people want to read your useless posts? Please do us all a favour and go away for good. 

"I once went to an apple pie contest. Judging was performed by a panel of experts, some with 30 years experience in non-related fields. They took samples of each of the pies, put them in a blender, and then tested each sample for colour, lubricity, light transmission, density, ph, and of course percentage of sugar, fat, carbohydrates and fibre. Their conclusion? Within the experimental errors of the measuring devices they were all the same. They gave the blue ribbon to the cheapest pie. 

Not one of the judges tasted any of them. "

Being seemingly objective without any subjective assessment is missing the point:  how does it affect the sound of music in an audio system?.

Yes @toronto416 anyone with a brain would come to the same conclusion. But there are many flat earthers who believe taste and sound can be measured.

The truth is: ASR does not review anything- they run some tests, meaningless tests, and that is it.