Upgrading power system
Since I already have components and speakers that I love, I try to make an improvement every year with something or another. Last year I bought Magnarisers for My Maggie 3.7's. Nice improvement. Immediate difference. The year before was power cables and conditioner, all Shunyata. And I always wondered why there was little if any improvement. A couple audiophiles said to replace the wall outlet. So I thought about it for years before buying a JPS labs audiophile hospital grade outlet. After removing the original outlet, I compared them. No comparison at all, the JPS weighed almost twice as much and the metal was better quality as well. The JPS was 2o amps and the original was 15. Would I hear the difference? It took all of one minute. Best $150 I ever spent. I was skeptical until I heard the difference, mostly clearer and more pronounced highs and well defined low end. Anybody else have this experience?
Hate to say it but your Shunyata may be doing more harm that good. Most power conditioners do. I highly recommend PS Audio. One thing they understand better than practically anyone else is getting power to your amp. Wall outlets are a good thing to do but you will almost never hear a difference. If you do, you probably had one more drink this evening. |
The downside to choosing a physics major in college is that you can never watch and action movie again without noticing all the things that happen that violate the laws of physics. Keep these observations to yourself. Because soon your family will refuse to watch movies with you. DAMHIK. The upside to choosing a physics major is college is that you don't believe in black magic. So a black box that does things that aren't supported by physics doesn't interest you. I bring this up because there is significant discussion in this thread about these appliances that the consumer certainly can't be capabile of understanding, but trust us, they remove noise. Noise isn't like chunks that can be removed with cheese cloth. Once you have noise in your power, the best thing you can do is rectify it and invert it with a super high quality inverter. And for those of you that think their suburban power is clean, mine runs about 4-5% thd. Jerry |
I read pretty well. There suggestions for everything from power conditioners to harmonic resonators, to fancy outlets, to magic boxes in this thread. I think some require you to wear a copper bracelet on your left ankle while listening. I wasn't responding to you specifically @fuzztone I do tend to use the term "power conditioner" to refer to a wide array of widgets. |
@boxcarman I currenly run my amp with the fuse jumpered. The fuse is a tremendous limitation on power. So I've been idly looking for a good circuit breaker in the sub 1A range that could be put in it's place and haven't found one. I think there is a niche business available there but I've not too many irons in the fire to pursue it. |
