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After 4 days of suiting in boxes in my listening room today is my day off and I decided to dedicate it to play with the new Pure Power 3000+.

I desired to use just records and connected all amps, preamps and phonostage to old unit, disconnecting everything else. I relisted the first movement of the Tch 6, Mravinsky 1961, I know that recording very well, and even it is not the best “audio quality” it has in there all the I need to hear and even more.

Switching 5 cables to PP3000+ was no brainer.  The unit shows 50% load.  All power cables are lifted ground (in old and new units). Bothe of the PP3000 and PP3000+ are plugged into the same dedicated power line, phase A.

No, contrary to the comment I nears I have no noise from speakers of any kind, in fact it was no difference at all from noise perspective. Just for fun I measured the AC nose on the filaments of my DHT of the Milq mid channel. The folks who played with direct heated triodes know that this place is the most sensitive. I have 0.7mV with old unit and I had the very same with new. I maxed out the phonostage at its full 84dB gain. No noise of any kind, the same as with old unit. So far so good, the folks who reported that PP3000+ had “noise via loudspeakers” need to find out how to address own ground loops.

The initial sonic result is auditable instantly at the very first bar – a large portion of HF extension is not there anymore. The the glitz and confusion at HF is removed. With older unit the lower bass is slightly softer and defused, the sense of rhythm is slightly less pronounced, the first violins slightly earlier chock my own recording crescendos, the woodwinds re more lay back, more creamy, with no whistling intend. There is nothing else to say – it is as simple as that.

It is not about the proverbial HF noise however, it is more about the new definition of beat that the new unit has. The new unit injects some very definitive sense of rhythm. I can’t compare it to anything else then to bring an audio association. If you try to compare the CEC TL0 transport again peaty much anything else out there then you know what I mean. The TL0 reads very hard with spectacular rhythmical articulation.  The same rhythmical articulation the new PP3000+ feels like showing only the PP take it further: it feels like it throws some kind laser-distinctive rhythmical differences.  This new super pace is not about rapidity of sound but rather singularly of sound that is not necessary pleasurable thing. I did switched back to the old unit a few times and to a degree I do see the merits of using the old unit legato-like rhythm.  I need to listen a bit more and to get use to this super articulation of the new PP+.  Does this super verbalization make sense musically?  I do not know year, this is attractive and might be even addictive but I need to think about it. For whatever it worth the new PP3000+ looks like a new unit with very different performing capacity.  The PurePower people told me that this is basically the old unit that took many of the old unit ideas further. That might be the case but for sure this is the example where the quantitative approach did give birth to a new definition of quality. Now I need to think how this new quality might be used in context of my playback. At this point I do feel that this new super articulation has in a way always mechanical nature and I am a bit cautious about it. I need to think more about the way to use this new opportunity.

I did not measure anything, did not test bypass, buttery operation or anything else. As the initial exposure I would say the result did exceed my expectations and was well worth it. It is certainly a very new sound from Pure Power and if they learn how to make their units stable and reliable then they could stand up very arrogantly and the product they have is very unique.  The best thing so far that Pure Power took his old wonderfully sounding unit and converted it to a new generation of Pure Power sound. Considering my firm believe that they have no idea what they do (neither anybody else BTW) I was very afraid that they would kill the accidently-wonderful sound of the old PP3000. They did not do furthermore then took it to very right direction. That is very pleasant to see.  It is possible that what Pure Power does has already nothing to do with electricity itself but rather it possible that they got a grip how to pre-condition power before PS in order to make it to sound more interesting.  One way or another but I feel it is very stimulating direction to go.

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