PS Audio P10 - the beast has landed

[MikeMusic]

Tinkering away at the front end of my system and after some thought and comparing my PPP to a mains block I decided a P10 would be a good move, courtesy of Martin T's review of a few months ago

Arrived Thursday evening in the back of Trevor from Guildford Hifi's car.

It is big and heavy.
It would *just* fit into my Mana rack as Plan A, but I decided it was too tight given the weight and glass, plug overhang and ease of moving.

Plugged in and tried one track from Mavis. Sounded good, but I wasn't expecting much. Played various not so familiar music until today then albums I know.

So how was it after being left on for just over 2 days ?

Somewhere between surprising and stunning.
Way more detail, bass that seems to be connected directly to the earth below. Some little details shocked me because there was never any clue they were there before.

I wasn't going to review this soon as I expected it to take a while to come on song.
If it gets that much better from this level it will be stunning.
Not cheap and maybe you could manage with a P5, but you really should audition one if you can

[John]

Also worth putting a really good mains cable on this no idea why it should matter on something like this but it does

[MikeMusic]

Also worth putting a really good mains cable on this no idea why it should matter on something like this but it does

Oh yes I have an Ultimate stiffy, 2.6 from MCRU

I couldn't see why a good mains cable was so important, (surely ?) as the mains was being taken to pieces and put back together right, but did the testing and blow me so it was ...

Best cable of the lot has to go on the regenerator

[John]

Yes totally agree with your findings that has also been my experience

[Z-A]

Glad to hear you are finding the same as the other P10 owners here, in my system it is fundamentally necessary, introducing distortion and dc into the signal path is never a good idea.

[Wakefield Turntables]

Just finished reading a comment with regards to the P10 and ATC active speakers. Several ATC owners have commented on how the P10 made NO difference whatsoever. I wonder why this could be..?

[John]

Not every system needs mains treatment In the past I had equipment that for whatever reason would not work with my PS P500
With anything like this it best to try in your system first

[MikeMusic]

Yes totally agree with your findings that has also been my experience

What sort of difference did you hear after 1 and 2 weeks ?

[MikeMusic]

Glad to hear you are finding the same as the other P10 owners here, in my system it is fundamentally necessary, introducing distortion and dc into the signal path is never a good idea.

I wonder if I have more problems with an overhead mains supply - and therefore more of an improvement

[John]

I had only the P500 so unable to really answer the question as so long ago, with the Balanced mains it was straight away no burn in