Any accuphase products you can just about buy it with your eyes closed. I will be in to check this one out because these guys in Soundline know what they are doing and what is important to you as an audiophile. Good video James. Cliff,👍👍
GM ☕️from Toronto. I find this to be an interesting 🧐 piece. However,I’d only consider something like this ONCE you’ve maxed the room and system performance as possible… Only then will “guiding the lily” yield and audible improvements . Have a great day.
Well yes and a little bit no. It depends on what you consider to be a maxed out system. This is a high end piece of equipment and obviously not fundamentally necessary for operation so it’s not the first or even 4th thing most people are going to buy. However, in our demo room system, which is around about the middle of our main brands ranges (Accuphase and Sonus Faber), the PS550 made a MASSIVE difference. So I’d say if you’ve got the $ and looking for a significant improvement on what you already own, this is 100% worth it.
James, another excellent video, thanks. Just curious where you see a QBase Ref fitting in with the PS-550/1250, re the former's primary earth outlet. If you had both in a system, would you still plug say a C-3900 into this, given it may be the main benefactor of the clean p/s? Or swap for a QB8 (16A, with QWave/QSine) to just feed the PS?
Thanks! In our testing, we have found the best performance is achieved by plugging the Qbase (8 or Ref) into the wall, Preamp into the Qbase primary earth, and then the PS-550 into the 2nd output on the Qbase. Then the CD transport, DAC, and Turntable power supply into the PS-550 as they have the most to do with physical media and moving parts and therefore benefit the most from the perfect sine wave generated by the PS-550. And all other devices straight into the QBase. (Power amps, phono, streamer etc). We have not had a PS-1250 to try yet.
Great video! Amazing that the PC-550 can make such a difference. I know that you paired it with the E700 and were at about 75% of the PC-550’s capacity. Do you think that 550 can adequately handle the E800 and an Esoteric streamer? Did you notice any differences between the PC-550 and its predecessor the PC-530 other than the meter? Thanks!
I would say that it could handle those two items, but can’t be sure without testing. As far as the difference goes, I only have a customer‘s report to go on who at first said they heard an improvement, but then later on said they thought it was pretty close.
An isolation transformer is not a regenerator, two different methods trying to do the same thing. Isolation transformers are not good for if need a lot of power.
Can you explain further the differences between an isolation transformer and a regenerator? I don’t know which one the PS-550 technically is, I just know it makes the system sound WAAY better.
Any accuphase products you can just about buy it with your eyes closed. I will be in to check this one out because these guys in Soundline know what they are doing and what is important to you as an audiophile. Good video James. Cliff,👍👍
GM ☕️from Toronto.
I find this to be an interesting 🧐 piece.
However,I’d only consider something like this ONCE you’ve maxed the room and system performance as possible…
Only then will “guiding the lily” yield and audible improvements .
Have a great day.
Well yes and a little bit no.
It depends on what you consider to be a maxed out system.
This is a high end piece of equipment and obviously not fundamentally necessary for operation so it’s not the first or even 4th thing most people are going to buy.
However, in our demo room system, which is around about the middle of our main brands ranges (Accuphase and Sonus Faber), the PS550 made a MASSIVE difference. So I’d say if you’ve got the $ and looking for a significant improvement on what you already own, this is 100% worth it.
James, another excellent video, thanks.
Just curious where you see a QBase Ref fitting in with the PS-550/1250, re the former's primary earth outlet. If you had both in a system, would you still plug say a C-3900 into this, given it may be the main benefactor of the clean p/s? Or swap for a QB8 (16A, with QWave/QSine) to just feed the PS?
Thanks!
In our testing, we have found the best performance is achieved by plugging the Qbase (8 or Ref) into the wall, Preamp into the Qbase primary earth, and then the PS-550 into the 2nd output on the Qbase. Then the CD transport, DAC, and Turntable power supply into the PS-550 as they have the most to do with physical media and moving parts and therefore benefit the most from the perfect sine wave generated by the PS-550.
And all other devices straight into the QBase. (Power amps, phono, streamer etc).
We have not had a PS-1250 to try yet.
Shunyata uses crystals in tubes 😊
Great video! Amazing that the PC-550 can make such a difference. I know that you paired it with the E700 and were at about 75% of the PC-550’s capacity. Do you think that 550 can adequately handle the E800 and an Esoteric streamer?
Did you notice any differences between the PC-550 and its predecessor the PC-530 other than the meter?
Thanks!
I would say that it could handle those two items, but can’t be sure without testing. As far as the difference goes, I only have a customer‘s report to go on who at first said they heard an improvement, but then later on said they thought it was pretty close.
An isolation transformer is not a regenerator, two different methods trying to do the same thing. Isolation transformers are not good for if need a lot of power.
Can you explain further the differences between an isolation transformer and a regenerator?
I don’t know which one the PS-550 technically is, I just know it makes the system sound WAAY better.