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Really Jerry! A £500 unit bettering one at least 3 times the price?Originally Posted by jandl100
Nooooo -- my AG1500 is wonderful!
It kicked my old PS Audio PowerPlant Premier well into the weeds.
Maybe i'd better check one of those AG1500 units out...
That said my mains hasn't really given me a problem...
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Werll - you don't really know what your mains is doing to the sound until you clean it up..... That said my mains hasn't really given me a problem...
But ime the effectiveness of any of these mains doodads is very dependent on the quality of the stuff that comes in. And that varies enormously from place to place and from time to time.
You just have to try it, I guess.
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Yep. The PPP was good, but the AG1500 gave clearly superior sound in my system - it wasn't even close, it was one of thosemoments!
The specs on the AG1500 (output distortion) are nowhere near as good as the PPP, though - so I'm really not sure what is going on here! But then I'm no techie - I just listen.
Pricewise; the PPP is in a very pretty case- the AG1500 is very much a piece of utilitarian pro-oriented gear to slot into your studio rack! I guess you're paying quite a lot for the PPP's appearance/build and also for the import costs of the PPP.
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Looks like these regenerators may not only be system dependent but also quality of electricity supply dependent . Anyway when Gary gets his balanced power supply we intend to have a comparison of both his and my AG500 in my system , and hopefully his too . Will report back with our findings.
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See P10 etc vs AG as like cars both get you there but in different styles. You get there but some peoples dicks are bigger than others.
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Well, sadly, I don't think mine's that big.
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I've just ordered mine ( not a BD ) , hope to get it soon , so we'll see
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That's the thing, it shouldn't matter how bad the mains is as it's being regenrated. Hmmm.
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Err, no!
the point is how close the incoming mains is to a pure sinewave - that's what makes the difference.If it's perfect already, then there should be no advantage, the worse it is the bigger the improvement a regenerator should make.
And kit responds differently to mains anyway - so that's why it's system dependent.
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My point is, a regenerator should ouput the same quality of mains irrespective of the quality of the input. The whole point of it's existence to my mind. If it doesn't do so, it's not designed properly IMHO.
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