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Sure, there's plenty APS or any hi-fi component "manufacturer"/seller won't say, and one of the most common misunderstandings they quietly exploit is the die-hard audiophile notion of the "universal component", the old "plug-and-play" gambit.

If there is a "universal approach" to power supply, one that works equally well for inductive, capacitive and resistive loads of all stripes, then I am unaware of it.  And this is true all the way up to giant laboratory grade power systems, and the power grid, itself, for that matter.  Although some "empirical" research has been done on wave forms, load ratios and frequencies versus load types, I know of no rational, systematic, "subjective" evaluation of any of this power treatment/regeneration stuff as it relates to serious listening to complex music via hi-fi, bullshit "testimonials" notwithstanding.  I assume this is because there has so far been no need to go this far; rhetoric and hype alone have done fine for sales, to date.

Of course, I'm dying to let loose with another flurry against APS' "QA"; but the truth is I'm only venting my personal frustration at feeling so close -  yet so far away -  from a personal solution to this most infernal of hi-fi poltergeists.


Paul S

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