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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #725: Storms , doctors and electricity . by joaco on 2011-01-19 
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hmmm this post is going ahead faster than I could analize it or I am very late at reading it . Anyway I was doing some thinking about my needs . It turns thay for my 45 amp doesn´t make any major changes the time of day and electricity , but for my d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1500: Real World electricity supplies by JOHNR on 2016-01-11 
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The information given in this review is truly stunning in both scope and in detail.For those who have seemingly insurmountable noise problems, they will need to pick over the fine details and explore.  Not any easy task if one is not knowledgeable on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1519: Funny electricity by JOHNR on 2016-01-27 
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I continue to be amazed at the varied views relating to BAD power at certain times of the day.I broke with that 10 or more years ago in moving to amplifiers, line amps and DACs configured with switched mode supplies.I not only keep my DAC permanently...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1683: Electricity is important in the entire playback chain by drdna on 2019-08-25 
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[quote user="Paul S"]Although "consistent" AC might be something equipment designers could allow for, I think the problems we are dealing with are both myriad and systemic, and we are probably stuck with these problems or some other systemic issues, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: Burj Al Arab Hotel and electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-13 
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I just watched a film about the construction of the Dubai’s famous Burj Al Arab Hotel. The program told that the engineers come across the problems with high harmonic distortions of electricity that powered up the Hotel (220 suites with 14kVa (!!!) c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #149: The dead end of electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-26 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Since all audio folks know that the wall gives us highly variable power (voltage being just about the least important aspect), it occurs to me that a way to measure it that includes all the various parameters would be highl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #238: The state of Electricity as it is now. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-06 
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Well, spent a few more hours to listening Avicenna. Although it has much better sound then from the wall but there are a lot of moments in this sound that I do not like. It is kind of freakish and demoralizing as Avicenna feeds system with absolutely...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #258: Flexibility of Imaging and electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-17 
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[quote user="drdna"] As I said before, the perception of the audiophile imaging and soundstage is really gone. [/quote] I think you might revise your view about imaging in future. No one cares about soundstage but with imaging it is a bit tricky. One...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #485: The Devil's Advocate by oxric on 2010-03-21 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Rakesh,I think you’ve missed the accent of my battery post.  We do not argue abstract topologies but we argue the validity of topology in respect to sonic results.  I hope we all agree that we do not exactly know WHY affect...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Electricity and different compression drivers’ diaphragms. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-15 
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]The electricity comment is interesting as today I put on some jazz music and the HF is very snappy, excellent! I feel like posting on AA to ask people's opinons if it's the electricity or if my concrete horns are going thro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #802: 10 KVA by Jorge on 2011-03-25 
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I have a 10KVA Isolation transformer that feeds on two separate 8 ga cables running direct from the house meters into an breaker into de transformer. This breaker is the one I use to turn my system on and off.  The Isolation transformer recieves two ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-12 
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People use to that I keep bitching about electricity. Practically anyone who developed playback to a more or less capable level and who has ears know that quality of electricity hugely affects sound. I personally do not fight with electricity - I def...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #274: A new box or the new opportunity? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-20 
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I wish people understand the electricity problems more as impediments of objectives. Good electricity that does not screw up Sound is not the goal but juts a mandatory means. After the electricity is not the problem the biggest question might be: wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #732: Maybe my unit is performing correctly by Lx_ on 2011-01-20 
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Those recent posts of yours are making me wonder whether my PP2000 unit is really faulty, as PurePower acknowledged on this very forum. After all, you are starting to recognize that PP is sensitive to incoming electricity in your own units. This make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: I do not think that voltage drop is a problem by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-30 
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[quote user="Paul S"] I have stated several times that the ML2s are less sensitive to bad electricity than my phono stage, and this is true. However, this is not to say that the amps are immune to bad electricity. In fact, it is the effects of bad el...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #830: A-b: possibility of comparing files? by scooter on 2011-04-04 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Thos who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I might w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #164: The Bad Electricity factor. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-12 
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[quote user="Paul S"]… Bad Electricity has more than kept pace, setting me back at an exponential rate… [/quote] Witch actually brings up a very interning view: how much the sound of Bad Electricity entrenched into our perception of sound of audio el...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #837: The main answer of the study. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-11 
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[quote user="Bill"]Could it be that the really great recordings of the 50's and 60's compared to those today were due to the fact that they had more "great electricity days to record. [/quote] What a brilliant idea! I never even thought about it.[quo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #284: Flogiston by Paul S on 2009-02-20 
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We are presently in a situation where we realize that the sound we get from our hi-fis is influenced by the electricity the systems are fed.  There has been a lot of hypothesizing and voodoo in coming up with "solutions" for the various quantifi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #831: Electricity Analyses: Sonic Data by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1170: Set free to find a new coloration by steverino on 2013-06-15 
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Perhaps Romy has found a new kind of distortion that wonderfully cancels out some other distortion that has made its appearance under cover of the great electricity day. Of course when the great electricity day becomes the astonishing electricity day...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: The APS PurePower: the basic misunderstanding by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-27 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... I will showily dump in this thread some observations of mine about APS PurePower regenerator... [/quote]If you, I, they, we, whoever… consider APS PurePower as just a power treating or regenerating devise then I feel th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #275: Decisions and good electricity by drdna on 2009-02-20 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Let pretend that we have a hypothetical playback that plugged to the wall and power but known bad electricity. The decisions that were mane within this playback reflect the critical choices that were made for the given play...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1909: Bad Electricity by Amir on 2023-11-18 
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I had some experience with bad electricity so i would like to share it here. My audio system does not have ground loop. 1- digital sources (I have CD Player) is more sensitive to Bad Electricity than Pre/Powers. 2- if your audio system Continuously p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: SET syndrome and/or bad power? by Paul S on 2007-09-08 
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Romy, of course I do not know if what you are describing is anything like what I hear from SETs, but that was my first thought when I read the post, the way it is so soothing - up to a point.I do not understand the relationship between the tube, the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #797: A signature of a Super Electricity Day? by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-24 
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Thos who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I might wait for net Super Electrici...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #862: Pp2000 by Bill on 2011-04-28 
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Every day that I listen to my system, I thank God for Romy's perseverance with the pp2000. For the past 25 years I've fought the crappy electricity that comes to my house in the woods with everything from banks of 8 massive 2 and 3 KVA isolation tran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #723: Electricity and weather. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-19 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Whoever follows this thread of mine note my exuberant reaction to the new fixed PP2000. What however I discover today is that for the last few days, right after the snow storm, the quality of electricity in my lines is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #483: It is all bout faulty methodology of assessment. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-20 
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Rakesh,I think you’ve missed the accent of my battery post.  We do not argue abstract topologies but we argue the validity of topology in respect to sonic results.  I hope we all agree that we do not exactly know WHY affects electricity sound. We do ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #163: A Pilgrim's Progress by Paul S on 2008-11-12 
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Looking back, I suppose I have only been aware of Bad Electricity as a Big Issue for maybe 10 years or so.  Before that, I just did not listen in a way that made it so obvious (and so pervasive!), and so, naturally, I did not have a system that ...
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