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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #314: Dimming Hopes by Paul S on 2009-02-22 
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"Success" equals better except for added hum?  How lucky is APS to have customers like this?!?Any dimmer switches within a mile and a half of the system?  Any variable inductors connected anywhere in the house?  Root out anything like ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #423: Purepower PP2000 still waiting! by montepilot on 2010-01-15 
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I ordered a unit at the end of December and was told it would be shipped in approx. one week.  However they ran out of units and the delivery time will probably be the first week of February.  I'm tying to maintain the patience of Romy. The only thin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #435: Where was it when I needed it? by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-28 
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The new hours that I am hatching now has some funny electrical setting. The house owned by a guy who is retired electrician ME (Master Electrician) and he did a very good job with wiring. The house has 200A line with dedicated 100A subpanels. If beca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #357: Smile when you say that! by drdna on 2009-07-06 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not remember that “recommended” APS. I do insist that it is the only devise If  does what I want a power devise to do with sound. Is it as recommendation or motivation to buy for others? [/quote]Actually, Romy specific...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #370: Battery operation by beachbum on 2009-07-11 
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Hello i was told by the shop that sold me my pp2000 that the unit was not designed for battery back up in normal operation. That battery back up was added only for cases of power lost. Ive had that happen only once in the time ive used the unit. Now ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #371: Only God knows what is doing on with APS by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-12 
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Guys, you do not need to ask this question to anybody else but the APS themselves. Would it make sense to ask a manufactures about the principles of their products operation? I would certainly not talk to the APS re-salers as they even fur...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #216: Screw "HF" by Paul S on 2008-12-28 
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Wouldn't it be nice if the PP2000 finally allowed a "qualified" system to produce realistic HF, where the treble sounds clearly originate down where they are supposed to and the highest frequencies are "inaudible", like they're supposed to be?&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #236: Dynamics and Avicenna by drdna on 2009-01-05 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I played the full system today driven from Avicenna possessor.[/quote]Yay! [quote user="Romy the Cat"]It was interesting.[/quote]Uh oh. [quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, in my view this sonic elasticity of sound was with Avic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1311: Purepower method by drdna on 2014-06-05 
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It is true never send your unit back for repair to Pure Power. Mine was never returned and my money was never refunded.I agree the sound of the battery was the most pleasant and quiet when I had my PP2000. It is an approach to the problem, but it is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1079: Ground is hard by Bud on 2013-01-13 
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SOS, please note that your PP 2000 does not isolate one component from another within the reconstituted 60 Hz circuit. It only isolates those components from the noisy and variable wall voltage. Since you think you must isolate your TT and phono stag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #650: My PP2000 unit by manisandher on 2010-12-12 
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I don't have a scope, so can't measure the output of my particular unit. However, if I were to guess, I would say that my unit probably falls alongside your #2 unit. When run from AC, the bass disappears and the sound becomes bright and edgy, to the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1812: Always I use only one pure power by Amir on 2021-12-07 
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Romy , you are right , pure power affects on wall AC quality, when a pp3000 is connected to wall ac (the TV not connected to PP3000) then the picture quality of my TV decrease. allways I use only one pure power 3000 and other pure powers are disconne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1596: PP2000 plus PP3000+ conflict by drdna on 2018-07-25 
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Romy,I agree with the very nice summary you have made of the situation. You remember that I struggled for a couple years to get PurePower to return my PP2000 which had gone for repairs, but ultimately they replaced it with a PP3000+.  I just have to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #889: Something else? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-03 
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Steverino, they are all reasonable questions, I do not have answers, I have some hypnotizes that might look unto. It does appear to me that the change that I observe are not electricity related, at least not the electricity as we understand it. The e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #326: Ceiling fans controls and my idiocy. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-01 
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What an idiot I was.  I made a few phone calls and inquired about a few high end ceiling fans. The smallest 6” BigAssFan cost about $3K, I need two – so it is kind of too expensive. Some other best fans are around $1K each.  They all promise arou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #872: What is the definition of your quotes? by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-05 
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[quote user="joaco"]... this last time ive been doing some "ear" experiments and trying different setups of filtering . Just a question regarding a phenomena that im having , ive tried some ups/on-line regenerators and I think they tend to "smooth" a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #103: Some thoughts about one-IHT vs. multiple-DHT by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-10 
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[quote user="nl"] I have used Russian high-gm tubes like 6C45 in amps before, including single-stage designs very much like Romy's single-stage Milq. These have many attractions. However, in my experience it just didn't have the tone. Jim de Kort of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #652: PurePower: a model of corporate hypocrisy by oxric on 2010-12-12 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A few words before I lay down the facts. Over the last week I got a number of signals from PurePower that I shall not defame their products. Their marketing director Bob Rapoport – a certifiable idiots – informed me that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #831: Electricity Analyses: Sonic Data by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I mi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Not only your Bidat is sensitive to incoming electricity by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-23 
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[quote user="miab"] Romy, My Bidat being extremely sensitive to incoming electricity and now with Purepower in my mix I am getting to know my Bidat in a new light. I did think I had a grasp of what the Bidat could and couldn't do but feeding it throu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: Reference to Ground by Paul S on 2009-02-22 
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It is confusing, but the NEUTRAL is not only "referenced to ground", but in properly-designed components it is THE reference to ground.  Too bad most commercial hi-fi gear splits any and all grounding, at any point in any circuit, between the ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #403: PP Benefit by Meiko41 on 2009-07-17 
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[quote user="Petrasescu_Lucian"] Thanks for the info Meiko41 !At what load (the percentage on the display) does the noise from the capacitors becomes annoying ? Do the fans stay always on or they kick in when you reach certain temperature ? I gues...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #72: Abandoning Milq? by drdna on 2008-12-24 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In meanwhile, if anyone has any proposal what tube to try in the Sun Audio audio kit’s output stage then let me know.[/quote]You want a suggestion for a good 2A3? Get Ricardo Kron's (KR Audio Enterprises) KR 2A3. Very rug...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: More on the 2A3 comparisons by drdna on 2009-01-14 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I was thinking about this: how come that driving 6C33C (in fact driving anything one can imagine) the 6E5P was very fine but driving 2A3 it was dull like hell. I opened the amp and tested all – everything was perfect but th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Shielding Condoms on those tubes.... by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-21 
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I got home today, power up the payback and played some bootlegs of Australian festivals that Kostas Metaxas sent me another day. I paid attention that the sound was strange it was too hard atop.  That was something new. I put in my player the CDs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1286: Shameless self promotion? by drdna on 2014-02-10 
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[quote user="thegooddoctor"]This looks to be extremely well made with the recharging, battery, and regeneration portions separated into three discrete chassis with industrial-type umbilicals/connectors between each. I have seen such a configurati...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #952: YMMV by Lx_ on 2011-12-22 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Whatver PurePower dose or dose not does but it works 100% perfect to address problem with dimmers.[/quote]Canuck,I would like to amend this somehow: my experience is not similar to Romy's. I have always observed that dimmer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #684: Rate of Charge/Discharge, and the Bottom Line by Paul S on 2011-01-03 
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Another thing to think about along with larger batteries for the PP is the charging process, which needs to be "shaped" to make best use of the particular battery or batteries, including maximizing battery life.  Also, if the stock PP2000 uses se...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The year 2010-2011. My Audio by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-17 
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It was as a year with a 2 major of audio events: New listening room, New Midbass horns, New ULF channel. It took almost 6 months to get any more or less reasonable sound in my new listening room, not that I was working so long on the room but rather ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #736: Agree by joaco on 2011-01-20 
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[quote user="bernie_f"]fresh powder snow in the countryside? The zillions of crystals of water are doing a perfect job of damping noise - at least in the audible spectrum.[/quote]I used to ski a lot in a place called "Valle Nevado" , it was only 45 m...
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