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In Reply to: RE: "mask the effect of bad AC" - What do you mean? posted by AbeCollins on October 28, 2016 at 07:46:52
I mean that anyone who has EVER considered getting a PSAudio Power Plant knows exactly what I am talking about.
I am almost of the opinion that quite low-end electronics and audio equipment can deliver quite good sound IF the AC was clean.
Really, nothing about Tesla nor the documentary. I was giving Tesla a tribute for having invented AC! Obviously, we would have nowhere the electrical infrastructure as we have today without it.
The AC quality of my home varies greatly and, fortunately, is leaps ahead of where it was at when I first moved in. Either that or my hearing is going and I'm fooling myself how good high-end audio can sound (even mid-fi audio). BTW, most of the audio shows I've attended have had atrocious sound quality to varying degrees IMO.
I was just putting two and two together and I've noticed that great tube equipment and class-A amplification probably treat this AC noise differently which is why it subjectively almost always sounds better (in those cases).
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"I am almost of the opinion that quite low-end electronics and audio equipment can deliver quite good sound IF the AC was clean"
not really. low end means just that. acceptable maybe but quite good comes from well executed electronics, not necessarily costly.
examples:
adcom gfp565 preamp-not so good. gfa555II amp-VVG.
spectro acoustics preamps-not so good. p202 amp-XLNT
the list goes on but clean AC is not going to be that big a factor.
...regards...tr
I mean that anyone who has EVER considered getting a PSAudio Power Plant knows exactly what I am talking about.
Well, I own the smaller PS Audio P300 Power Plant that I use on source components but I still don't get what you are talking about when you say, "Perhaps, some of us gravitated towards tube electronics in order to mask the effect of bad AC. NO?"
That would be an emphatic NO from me! ;-)
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