Peabody's New Crown Jewel

[harley .guy07]

I is surprising to see that make that big of a difference. But those cheap power strips are a waste to be anywhere near audio gear. I use one next to my quintet but is is for other things not my audio equipment or music server computer, they all get the cleaned up power from the quintet. I would say you would be better off to buy another after market cord that is long enough to reach the quintet and that would be the best case if you want to have the clean power and protection of the quintet. I would think it would be ok to temporarily plug the levinson into the wall but I would be afraid that anything wrong with the incoming power could hurt it.

[Feanor]

I is surprising to see that make that big of a difference. But those cheap power strips are a waste to be anywhere near audio gear. I use one next to my quintet but is is for other things not my audio equipment or music server computer, they all get the cleaned up power from the quintet. I would say you would be better off to buy another after market cord that is long enough to reach the quintet and that would be the best case if you want to have the clean power and protection of the quintet. I would think it would be ok to temporarily plug the levinson into the wall but I would be afraid that anything wrong with the incoming power could hurt it.

It's not clear to me why more, (or all), components don't have built-in RFI/EMI filters -- except for the usual reason that it saves the maker a very few bucks.

My current Schiit Bifrost and my former Assemblage 1.5 DACs both had such filters. See the Bifrost which has such a filter built in to the AC input at the upper left of the picture ...

[harley .guy07]

You would figure PS Audio would have them on their stuff since they are one of the bigger manufacturer of power cleanup devices out there but I am not sure which of their units does. I know that the power stabilized quite a bit after i installed the Quintet into the mix. But you are right in today's world I would think it would be automatic to see a filter on most high end devices. But then that would steal profits away from companies selling separate power conditioning devices. Don't know any other reason than profits as to why this is the case.

[Mr Peabody]

Harley plugging a strip into the Quintet is a waste of a Quintet outlet, as I have found. I suspect more audio gear has EMI/RFI protection than we realize, it just isn't something they put in the feature list. One of my pieces mentioned having it in the owner manual, I can't remember now if it was the Pass amp or 512, I'm wanting to say the Pass. If so, the upgrade power cord from Clarus still helped raise the sound quality.

[harley .guy07]

Thats a good thing that the power cord helped. Studying electronics as a younger adult alowed me to understand how a simple thing like a power cord or a cleaned up power supply to components would allow the electronics to work like they should and have nothing that takes away from the experience. The more I learn about how electrons flow and how these components use electronic energy to "do their thing" just makes me grow as an audiophile and alows me to better myself as a student of electonics and also as a person trying to get the most out of thier system