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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: PurePower 1050 EU Version big bang and deadPosted by anafield on: 5/25/2009

Today I was listening music and after about one hour there was a big bang and my hole system was dead.My unit worked well for about 6 months now without any problems, out of the sky it blow up!
The home main fuse of 16 Amps was blown-out but the 10 Amp Fuse on the back of the APH 1050 is still intact.After the shock what happened I hooked up my system with a normal power juicebar and all worked as it shut be.
After listening for about one hour I noticed that my set was sounding much better and smoother.Especially in the upper frequencies there was a more relaxed and open sound, the bass was also more powerful.
For me the APH experiment is over and I will keep the system running without any Power-regenerator.
PS: I looked inside the APH to find out what happened, a couple of 10 Amp soldered Fuses are dead, also the output stage was blown away.At the middle of the power stage there is a small ceramic cap mounted that is bean used in a Sobel-Network on the output of the Digital Amp.This capacitor as I measured it was shorted, my guess is that this sucker caused the problem.

Herman

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