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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: The PurePower devise - the Second ActionPosted by Romy the Cat on: 11/30/2007

 Romy the Cat wrote:
The second action is a process of active injection of sonic particulars into down-line components…..
That dual activity should be always understood as two separate elements of PurePower’s contribution. 

This regenerator’s Second Action inserts into Sound something that I might not call as anything else then “Super Texture”. We undusted what Texture of audio presentation means but APS devise takes that Texture WAY above anything else that I have seen, creating an environment of truly of Extremely Catalyzed Texture. I would not grand any worth to the “Super Texture” – it might be a friend or a foe – I will talk later about it in my Survival Guide. There is thing that are remarkable in the PurePowe’s Super Texture – it’s transparency to harmonics.

What the Super Texture is and where it comes from? I have no definitive idea. The PurePower regenerator is in a way a “radioactive” switching machinery that throw around HF impulses, spreading them via different methods (radio, magnetic, electrostatic, grounds, etc….).  I presume that some of the residual “radioactivity” might leak into playback, affecting it as a very “special dither”. The residual ripples of the PurePower’s sampling raters (20Khz) are relatively high, and well visible on a scope. I presume that because a huge parasitic capacitance of APS unit (the whopping 28V between ground and neutral) that residue of the switching wrinkles leaks to ground and then goes to the cathodes… I have to mention that I made many experiments trying to detect that “wrinkles penetration” and was not able to, at least for now. Perhaps the residual wrinkles are not the reasons of the APS Super Texture, perhaps something else is.

Whatever the reasons of Super Texture are it should be understood that the Super Texture is homogeneous hybrid with PurePower’s First Action (power regeneration) and they are VERY mush alloyed together. Use of APS generator is an ability to manage the intensity of the Super Texture. It is not so straight forward and I will tell about it my brief forthcoming Survival Guide

Do not be under impression that this Super Texture is strictly positive moment in APS. The Super Texture might be us a horrible enemy, in fact in most cases it is, something that converts the Sound f playback into Absolute Sound advocated “frequency pushing”.   The Super Texture is like “Unsharp Mask” in Photoshop – with moderate and restful application it might be very useful and beneficial too but as soon it gets slightly more than necessary it converts a photograph into visual garbage (an example is most of the phonographs at my site)

It is important to note that the “Super Texture Garbage” or the effect of “Overly Applied Dither” that you might get from PurePower regenerator in most of the cases will be VERY welcomed by audio pubic. I heard drooling comments from audio morons about PurePower but I never have seen/heard anyone’s caution tales about the devastating effect the over-application of PurePower’s Super Texture might have to sound. I hope my Survival Guide will be taken under consideration by people who use APS unit or perhaps some others who have different view but better sound would voice their recommendations to me.

Finally, the PurePower regenerator does not address problems of playback with electricity – you will see later on why. However, the APS unit opens a whole new perspective of looking at the things – pre-structuring power in a certain format in order to get certain effects. Have you seen Power Level Injection Channels? Here we go – the APS devise does exactly that. The APS PurePower regenerator did not become my “all problems are off” solution but it becomes a quite valuable tool to shape better sound. I would like to be able to moderate the amplitude of the First Action and Second Action but APS does not offer it. APS, as most of other manufactures care only about functional moments of their units in context of terminally deaf and sonically Moronic audio pubic - it is hardly possible to demand from them any sonic specifics. In the end, after my Survival Guide, I will pass some my recommendations where I would like to see the APS and APS-like devises to go from where they are now.

To be continue next week,
Romy the Cat

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