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

Post Subject: Debating the PP2000 "colorations"Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/18/2011

Well, it is not really debating but “kind of” debating…

A few days back I receive emails from guy who been using PP2000 for a few month. He informed me that very much disagree with my assessment of PP2000 contribution. He explicitly asked me do not post his comments at my site. I do not now know the guy, even we exchange a few emails. Based upon his emails he most likely is from Asia. He does sound intelligent and thoughtful. In summation of what he said was his feeling that PP2000 is a regenerator that produces not usable electricity for sound as he found Sound after PP2000 is very colored. He also was not pleased with improperly fast dymicks of his PP2000 and with a slight increase of mechanical texture in sound.

First of all I do not know if the Asian guy uses properly operating PP2000 – he might have the accidental PP2000F versions (“F” is coming from “Fucked”) and this might bias his judgments. If however, he note the “improperly fast dymicks” and “mechanical texture” then I presume that his unit is properly operating.

If he has properly operating PP2000 then I very much disagree with his findings. In my view PP2000 does affect sound very aggressively; however a PP2000 just resolves the electricity problem, letting the following electronic components to sound in the way how they originally sound. If one does not like the result then it is not the PP2000 problem but the problem of electronics/playback that does not sound properly in context of clean electricity. The same goes with excessive dynamics. There is no such a thing in audio as excessive dynamics. In audio no matter what we do we are near as close in dynamic range and to speed of dynamics acceleration to what live sound can do. I feel that what when people complain about excessive dynamics then they just do not have playback render harmonics consistent the dynamics rate they have. I think this is what happening with the Asian guy: when PP2000 lifted the burqa of power line noise and dymick restrictions then it highlighted the inadequacies of his playback. There is however hidden aspect of the problem.

This brings an interesting moment of PP2000 operation that I did not cover before. The change of sound that PP2000 inflicts is large but I am not sure that change might be painlessly mitigated if a person has no means to mitigate it. I am kind of a freak of nature and have many channels and ability to control everything. So, I might shape Sound back to the state what I would like Sound to be. If I were a person who use one sealed amp and with sealed speakers then what option I would have to rectify the PP2000 positive contribution? It would not have a lot of option and my result would be in many ways accidental.

In context of my last paragraph I think it would be OK to recognize the changed in Sound after PP2000 that a person can’t mitigate as the “PP2000 own colorations”. I still feel that there is a LOT of advantages to build playback on the base of PP2000’s output, or any other output that has no intrinsic electricity problems.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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