How important is clean power?

Clean power is said to be critical to the performance of high-end audio equipment, yet is that so? And check out our newest KZbin channel / @octaverecordsanddsdst... Octave Records.

[@collinsmwaura1833]

The idea that clean power makes an amplifier lose dynamics is just hilarious... 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidkosa]

I bleach my power cable. Nice and clean.

[@DrivetoBlue]

I no longer worry about clean power supply to my system ever since capturing a Pikachu who does the excellent job as long as I feed him well and go out for a regular walk :D

[@alanliu6848]

Snake oil. Spend the extra money on a better pair of speakers or power amp or both. No power conditioner/regenerator can help a power amp with lousy power supply circuits inside the amp. If it is your house, pull a heavy cable from the breaker box to just power the system, that will do a lot more good and a whole lot cheaper.

[@larrycooper7249]

Talk to Electrical Engineer ......This guy doesn't have clue

[@peterh7575]

some psychoacoustic + placebo effect + woo woo is the highend audio world. Sad but true.

[@jdiggadydog]

This is good information as to why. never heard it explained this way before. Great job!

[@ericelliott227]

I think Paul does a fairly decent job of explaining here. At least he states that it is not as important as many think, but can be important depending on situation. Also, one doesn't need to spend $10k on a PS Audio power unit or any power unit in that range. On the flip side I have never seen power units at Walmart and would not purchase anything from there anyway. I never needed anything like a power conditioner until I moved into this one place that had sketchy power. I went and got a Panamax power conditioner/protector (expensive to me, but not nearly as much as a PS Audio power unit), but it solved a list of problems and saved my gear a couple of times and it is still doing it's job. If one doesn't have measurable sketchy power in their place, then it is not likely things like power conditioners are needed. Always a good idea to have a good surge protector though.

[@musicbycandlelightmbc3225]

I throw my electricity in the laundry wash every day. Shockingly clean as a whistle every time.

[@thomasmilje2867]

Not worth it, just stick the cable in to the wall.

[@aaronjohnson8159]

I appreciate this guys honesty and educating his audience on what they're actually buying

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

I'm still trying to figure out how the cord in the thumbnail with 3 prongs is going to fit into that wall socket

[@robfrancis8690]

That's what your amps transformer does, it lowers the impedance to a specific setting in Ohms of power coming into the amp. You don't need a high-end clean power component in most major cities when one has a good transformer built into your amp. Every high- end audio company will list the transformers filtered amp impedance in terms of THD (Total Harmonic Distortion). What one really needs is a high quality surge protector. Save your money and invest in four of the most important products of any high- end system. 1) A great recorded musical source 2) A well built amp with a large high quality transformer. 3) A high-quality surge protector. 4) High quality efficient speakers that match the Ohm setting of amp. Then add roughly 20% of total cost of system on cables. Look into companies like Acoustic Zen, and AudioQuest for cables, just my opinion.

[@falcon048]

Thanks for the explanation on lowering the impedance, as it impacts the sound. Also the rolling off of the sine wave. These two items explain why I got better sound when I replaced my cheap .75 wall socket for an Audiophile Grade (better than Hospital Grade) wall socket. And when I included a linear filter on the power line. That linear filter actively keeps the impedance low at .05 Ohms. The socket, creates far better conductivity to the live power wires in the house. As it turns out, those cheap Home-Depot special power outlets have no copper behind them and the plugs themselves are loose and do not make cold welds against the power plug. Hospital Grade does have some copper behind it, for better and more reliable conductivity and has tighter plugs to make a cold weld against your Positive/Negative/Ground connector.

[@TheCpuCrew]

Paul, we need more videos about your products. Love your videos, thanks !

[@sumitagg1]

Paul - where do you stand on the impact of the new audioquest Niagara series of power conditioners that is cleaning up existing power vs using a ps audio p15 or p20

[@leetingler619]

I once had a situation where l had a power surge that took out a VCR. The power company did a chart on my line for 3 days and found spikes. They discovered over the years that 5 houses were on the same transformer, this by itself back in the early day wasn't to bad but home owners added to their homes. New AC pools new kitchens etc. But didn't tell the power co.

[@BogdanSerban]

There's really simple phenomenons regarding power supply: noise (which is typically rejected by the transformer itself or the input common mode filter or PFC of SMPS), having enough power reserve in the bulk capacitors for transient power requirements of the amplifier and bus pumping. If an amplifier runs out of power, distortion is pretty bad, so there's no magic here.

[@fabiankonrath2804]

Hi Paul

[@FatGuyBuilds]

I am getting random popping coming from my def tech 6080 towers even with everything turned off but the towers plugged in the wall. could the built-in amps have issues? bought in 2009.