However, more often than not, a person with a $4,000 system isn’t going to invest in a $5,000 line conditioner as their next upgrade. Ironically, due to their power supply limitations, least-expensive components often best respond to power conditioning. But these components cost big money and large, high-quality capacitors can fetch hundreds of dollars-each. If you lift the cover on your favorite megabucks amplifier, you will usually find a massive power transformer and banks of filter capacitors that help turn AC power into DC. Power supply sections are some of the most obvious places where budget hi-fi components cut costs. And after a few weeks of listening with various combinations, I am highly pleased with the results. Following a brief listen when visiting the US importer, The Sound Organisation, I asked for a review sample. And that’s precisely what the EVO 3 Sirius does.

A good power-conditioning product should remove distortion artifacts from the AC power line, lower the noise floor, and keep its collective hands off of instrument tonality. It’s no wonder that after a certain period of time, the system happens to sound better when plugged straight into the wall again, and the honeymoon is over.īut it doesn’t have to be that way. Often, it’s easy to mistake a lowered noise floor for transient edges being shaved off, or tonality slightly altered, thus accentuating a particular frequency range and making the conditioned sound different-but not better-overall.

I’ve also had the chance to try countless power products and only found one that follows the Hippocratic oath of “doing no harm” to the signal. I’ve had the opportunity to audition hundreds of components during the last six years and have yet to hear a single one that hasn’t benefited from proper power-line conditioning. Unfortunately, if you subscribe to any of these beliefs, you are just plain wrong. And I’ve also heard the most common argument-that a well-designed power supply in an audio component doesn’t need additional help. Many audiophiles claim that they already have clean power because they are either close to a generating facility, far away from it, or have dedicated lines I’ve heard all the reasons. Clean power is one of the most essential parts to any hi-fi system’s success.

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