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In Reply to: Power conditioner or Hammond choke? Opinions... posted by RickeyM on June 20, 2007 at 18:16:17:
I ended up using the two Powervar units like this:
- One for the CD Transport, which is a Proceed CDD
- One for the mating DAC, which is a Proceed DAP
I have tried many different configurations. At the end, the system sounded better with the Powervars out of the system. As Al Sekela mentioned, the metal case with the Powervars do ring. Metal cover to metal chassis contact with the tranny slightly humming... So dampening the Powervar casing, tranny and AC outlet helps alot sonically. Gold wire for power gave the unit a nice warm rich tone, changing the crap hospital grade outlet helped, three large brass cones and the Myrtle wood helped, changing all the screws to non-magnetic helped a little, higher grade solder (I used Cardas Quad Eutectic) instead of the oversized lousy solder joints, ERS paper helped, a good power cord with a Furutech solderless IEC inlet helped, etc. I would assume you would try the Powervar unit with different gear. The 3.0 is a smaller unit then the 7.0 units I have. So try it with different front end gear.
What I was eluding to was if you are considering heavy moddifications (like I did) on the Powervar unit, that there are more effective AC filtering techniques available for the "money". One example was the Hammond 193L choke I mentioned. The modified Powervar units I have do not sound bad. What sounded better was removing it and having the duplex outlet that the Transport was plugged into filtered with a 193L choke.
To clarify the above. I currently (and did also use this Chang unit with the Powervars) use a Chang Lightspeed 6400. There are three duplex outlets in this Chang. The duplex outlets are being used as follows:
Duplex #1: Proceed AVP preamp and (2) 193L chokes
Duplex #2: Proceed CDD Transport and one 193L choke
Duplex #3: Modified Samsung DVD player and one 193L choke
The above mentioned configuration is sonically superior to having the modded Powervars anywhere in the system. I may try one of the Powervar units with the DLP monitor. Anyway, hopefully this helps...
Chris
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