Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio?


Is the PS audio regenerator a good choice or are there others?

 

 

jumia

I guess it depends what you are trying to achieve.  If you want good noise free power, I can recommend the Puritan PSM156

would you recommend plugging your amps, which i own, into a ps audio regen?

It depends on the amps and the model of regenerator. If one of our smaller amps and one of the bigger regenerators, yes- certainly worth a try. The regenerator should be one of the newer ones made in the last few years- the older ones don't seem to like the constant heavy load that our OTLs put on the line.

@atmasphere , Do you think P20 will improve the sound of your bigger amps like MA2 or 3 on P20 regenerator? I ask because you specified that P20 works well with your "smaller" amps.

Anybody use a Power conditioner from transparent like an opus? I don’t really have powerflo problems so maybe a regenerator it’s not a good idea. May be a conditioner is better. Most don’t really have problems with their electricity flow unless they live in a heavily shared Circuit situation. So need for a regenerator seems kind of unnecessary. An unimpeded conditioner would seem to be better.

PS audios Power regenerators use about $100 a year in electricity costs and are still on when you don’t use them. This seems really really absurd. So if I own one of these things over 10 years that’s about $1000 worth of energy costs which is grossly wasteful.

Additionally if you have adequate power supply why would plugging an amp into a PS 20 result in a better sounding amplifier?  If Power supply is all over the place yeah this makes sense.  So unless you have a power supply that's unpredictable which is quite rare in most of the USA than a power regenerator is a complete waste of money.

Do you think P20 will improve the sound of your bigger amps like MA2 or 3 on P20 regenerator? I ask because you specified that P20 works well with your "smaller" amps.

It may well. Our OTLs are definitely affected by line voltage, although the MA-3 has built-in line regulation.