Do people really buy into this ?

[Gib Bogle]

"Furutech is of the opinion that such myriad of noise can render audio
reproduction of high frequencies to become “flat, hard and grainy”,
with “a thick and bloated midrange, fat uncontrolled bass, and loss of
air and soundstage stability…” The e-TP 609 was created as a measure
in countering the contaminants before they could get into the audio
system."

http://dagogo.com/furutech-e-tp-609-ac-power-distributor-power-reference-iii-ac-cable-review

What a massive, steaming, crock.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

They definitely are havin' a laugh. How can anything be flat and
grainy? Applying such adjectives to sound ... words fail me.

Years ago the serious wine column in the local newspaper referred to a
wine's "cow shit notes". There was nothing else in the piece to suggest
that the writer was taking the piss, so I still don't know if it was a joke.

 

[miso]

http://www.partsconnexion.com/product23260.html

Jamie

In studio applications, they condition power to keep out clicks and
such. A click from the power line into a recording is there forever. For
home use, a bit overkill.

http://www.panamax.com/

Panamax is a pretty old company, so I wouldn't completely write off such
products.

There is a long history of power conditioning, certainly in the old
mainframe computer days. Rather than do an overkill job in the product
itself, they traditionally cleaned up the AC instead. I recall those big
ass Topaz isolation transformers.

It seems to me, you should design your product to accept noisy AC power,
but then that makes the product more expensive compared to the
competition that doesn't filter as well.

Some audiophile are buying double conversion UPSs (server room gear),
which essentially provide conditioned power. This pops up on the AVS
forum from time to time. Double conversion UPSs are dam noisy audibly.

But if your AV gear has a switcher in it, it should already have decent
noise isolation.