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

Post Subject: A simple solution for LX_Posted by PurePower on: 1/6/2011

I think it might help LX_ 's ac problem resolution if I make one simple point.

If his PurePower 2000 is operating normally, it is both theoretically and in practice impossible for his household appliance operation to have any effect at all on the AC output from the PurePower receptacles. The belief that Power technology can be "sensitive" to utility AC characteristics is simply not true.

The obvious corollary of this statement is that if he can hear sonic effects in his music system that are directly correlated to appliance turn on, then his PurePower unit is almost certainly not operating normally.

It is possible, but not probable, that the effects he hears in the music are carried by the safety ground system, and not the PurePower, but as Romy has suggested this is not terribly difficult to rule out by operating temporarily, and carefully, without the safety ground system connected.

p.s. Do not follow the advice of creating a new ground for the audio system alone. Multiple grounds can cause very dangerous, even lethal, unintended consequences.

Conclusion: The PurePower 2000 is probably not operating properly. Therefore all tests and conjecture about its performance is moot.

Solution: PurePower will test and repair his unit so we are certain it is operating perfectly.

Then we can hope that all his problems disappear.

My guess is that he will then have the same experience as hundreds of other European audiophiles and be able to enjoy his music any day or night of the week with great sonic performance isolated from all utility effects.

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