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Post Subject: BypassPosted by Bill on: 6/17/2013

I have two of the pp+1500's in for review,and had Romy's 3000 before Richard brought it to Romy, and have to agree with Romy that the units surpass the old ones for sound quality.

I don't know how much current his amps pull on turn on but I was running just two of the 1500's with 20 channels of amplification including two large subwoofer amps and 4 Class A SET's and sundry source components turning on all at once and didn't have any problems with them going into bypass. Also, they were both running normally at 75% power, and on peaks I noticed that the 1500's were running at beyond 100% with no problem. I have since put the subs and rear channel amps on an old pp 2000, so the 1500's are now running at a steady 50% as all amps connected now to them are Class A. The 3000+ units are supposed to be able to sustain 200% peaks for 10 seconds, or about 6000 v-a, so Romy's must be sucking more than that on turn-on of his amps, so this could be alleviated by plugging in the amps separately. As far as bending over, I am heavier and older than Romy by a considerable margin and have not found this to be a problem as I placed my units on top of a shelf :-)

I compared the sound of the new units in bypass compared to the old units running normally and they were very close with the new ones having slightly tighter bass and less noise. In full mode there's no comparison. Thus, as far as the bypass problem, it really isn't one for 99.9% of buyers as only reviewers need to throw the bypass switch more than once or twice a day, if at all as one would be crazy to listen to the units in bypass except for elevator music time, or to keep source equipment warmed up. So I don't think the units need a remote, or peddle for the average person.

As far as the speed cook problem, I also have found an anomaly. For some reason every time I turn on a light in the room I get a pop out of the rear amps. Probably a grounding or RF issue, but cannot understand why.

All in all, these units surpass the old ones, have been stable here for two weeks, have survived long listening session giving greater than 100% power output with no problems. Full review to come in August at www.enjoythemusic. I'll be selling my old pp 2000's if anybody want to buy them for $1500 each.
Bill

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