VPI SDS or Powerplant for speed control?


I have a VPI Aries table and use the PS Audio P600 Powerplant for turntable speed control and line conditioning. Recently at my VPI dealer and he states the SDS is superior in both areas to the powerplant. Spoke with PS Audio and their opinion is that they both work well and there is no real benefit using the SDS over the P600. Does anyone have have any experience and recommendation with these two products?
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Showing 1 response by bob_bundus

Your PS Audio dealer is selling for his own benefit, not yours, & is either misinformed or is fabricating "facts".
I have personal experience with the SDS. The truth is that the SDS is more than a high stability waveform regenenator with a variable frequency output. It is also a standalone motor controller, comparable to only the more expensive Walker unit. These are true motor controllers because after they start out at full output voltage, they then sense the diminishing of motor startup current & consequently reduce their output voltage to a minimum required for stable motor operation. The result of that voltage reduction is (sonically) quieter / more stable motor operation due to reduction of magnetic saturation.
PS Audio is not designed with this critical feature - your PS dealer is selling BS.