That sounds like a bad idea. Pure copper is too soft to provide good contact pressure. It needs to be alloyed with something to make it springier.15 coats of polished nickel over high-purity copper
That sounds like a bad idea. Pure copper is too soft to provide good contact pressure. It needs to be alloyed with something to make it springier.15 coats of polished nickel over high-purity copper
The entire thing is a bad idea. But it is an expensive bad idea, and that's what matters. Paul's got to butter his bread.That sounds like a bad idea. Pure copper is too soft to provide good contact pressure. It needs to be alloyed with something to make it springier.
I would be interested to hear opinions on this solution, both the tester and the filter.
https://greenwavefilters.com/
There is a Japanese electronics standard for AC mains filtering which many companies follow. In addition, such circuits are required to pass emissions tests. I showed this in an Onkyo teardown article I wrote a few years ago: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/inside-of-an-audio-video-receiver-avr.7/
I noted the same thing you did in the article.
That's a common practice in certain situations today as well.Also inductors for denoising DC-voltage before an IC was obligatory
I would be interested to hear opinions on this solution, both the tester and the filter.
https://greenwavefilters.com/
"They deploy state-of- the-art EMI filtering technology to “short out” (or shunt) erratic surges and spikes of electrical energy (i.e., dirty electricity), "
Isn't that what these do?
I've seen the videos with the tester and wondered if it is tuned to measure a specific frequency that their 'filter' actually does cause to drop
I think you're underestimating Paul. He's serious. Whatever doubts he might have had he suppressed long ago.As I understand it, it was the distributor or store who didn't want to cooperate with ASR, and not Accuphase the company? I don't know the numbers, but Accuphase appears to have a marginal presence in the US. When Teac was distributing them (in the '70s and '80s) the company had a larger media footprint. It was not uncommon to read Accuphase reviews in the three big magazines. But with the boutique 'high end' nonsense of the time they were mostly viewed as an expensive alternative to Pioneer or Sansui, and Japanese gear in general was looked down upon. For the 'conservative' buyer, and for the equivalent dollar, Americans could buy McIntosh.
PS is a different bag. Cosmetically the gear is not up to Accuphase standards (or Mac for that matter). I guess it's cheaper than either of those two. Design-wise? Bascom King has authentic 'high end street cred'--no question. That said, I'm not sure why he'd hook up with PS. No shame? I guess the spread is there for him.
As far as Paul? My guess is that in his case it's simple opportunism. My guess is that he knows it's bogus, but has to keep the doors open, and gullible audiophiles can be sold pretty much anything. I see he's teamed up with Audioquest. That's all anyone needs to know.
On the other hand, if you are worried about your wall socket receptacles, PS has your medicine. For a price. How much? All you need to know is that it's 'got the grip of Mickey Mantle'! Personally I'm holding out for the Barry Bonds upgrade mod. LOL
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The Power Port Classic is our AV Grade high-end AC receptacle that is the starting point for any properly built system. By installing the Power Port AC receptacle in your room you gain an immediate improvement in performance over a standard wall receptacle.
15 coats of polished nickel over high-purity copper, with the “grip of Mickey Mantle” and polished nickel plated hardware, this is a must have in your system.
It would make sense to have a way of analyzing potential noise on a circuit, before implementing a solution for a problem that may not exist. I’d be interested to hear of anyone’s experience and/or recommendations for a tester.
Trying to draw 24,000W would burn the house down.
It would be even more interesting to buy the EMI meter and see how cheaper solutions work.
I expect this device to be similar to the other parallel cleaners.
I think the Greenwave filters are parallel, rather than in-line and probably work in a similar fashion to those sold by Russ Andrews: https://www.russandrews.com/mains-zapperators/
A few years back I found a circuit design somewhere on-line and built 5 of them for around £40:
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I can't find the circuit diagram now, but as there are only 6 components, I reckon I could work it out. However, as you can see, I used hot snot to put them together, so I'd have to break them to see the back of the board.
In any case, I don't think they do much.
Isn't that what these do?
Where'd you get it from?Here's mine, almost as beautiful as the AC iPurifier. Real 100-years-lasting sputnik design.
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Ok, just got it yesterday as a gift to do something with it if I want to.. I'll probably play around a bit with that to see what kind of effect it has on my system at all. Previously it was part of a big 3-phase computer power supply. I assume I can connect the phases on both sides with eachother and use this then on my single phase AC mains (230V/50Hz).