I have 3 dedicated circuits all with 10 gauge Romex and all with the Wattgate 381 gold plated outlets.
Electrical Set Up and Equipment #1 one circuit is used only with my APL 3910 Player. Connected with Purist Anniversary Power Cord #2 one circuit for only my Pass labs X350.5 Amp Connected with Virtual Dynamics Revelation 2 Power Cord #3 one circuit for my Hydra 8 (Connected with Virtual Dynamics Master Power Cord) where all my video is plugged in. LCD TV, DVR, DVD, CDR, Cable Box etc. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Review Originally, I plugged the Alan Maher PE’s into outlets outside of those 3 dedicated circuits (I used other outlets in the same room) to break them in. In those locations, I actually thought they sounded pretty good. But I was told by Jen Maher not to do that. Jen said to plug them into my Audio outlets and don’t move them from place to place, if I did, she said, they would go thru break in all over again.
Well, I moved them as instructed into the #1 dedicated outlet used on the APL Player and on the #2 dedicated outlet used with my Pass Labs Amp.
A few days later, (about 4 days) the bass and treble sounded less impressive, the dynamics was gone. After a week, the system remained “Dark Sounding” and unenjoyable. I finally said to myself, what the hey, and moved the PE’s back to the Original placement I had at the beginning (outside of the 3 dedicated outlets).
Well folks that is it, they sounded great once again in that location. The dynamics and the upper frequencies returned slowly. But the change was noticeable somewhat right away. After about 15-30 minutes the treble started sounding more extended and the dynamics returned. For some reason, when I plugged the PE’s directly into my dedicated Audio outlets the sound gets dark, I believe the Audiophile word for this is, overdamped. Your results may vary.
So, am I better off with the Alan Maher or the Noise Destroyers in my system??? I would say, yes, they make noticeable positive improvements, but extreme placement is necessary.
Results were about the same with the Allan Maher units as compared to the Noise Destroyer units. I would give the nod to the Alan Maher units over the Noise Destroyers due to price and slightly better performance. I have placed the Noise Destroyers into my Video System where they have improved that quite nicely.
APL Denon 3910 CD Player Pass Labs X350.5 Eggleston Works Andra mkII Speaker Purist Dominus Ferox Rev C Balanced 2M Interconnect Shunyata Hydra 8 AC filter Virtual Dynamics Revelation 2.0 Bi-wire Speaker cable Purist 20th Anniversary Contego Power cord Virtual Dynamics Revelation 2 Power cord
Associated gear APL Denon 3910 CD Player Pass Labs X350.5 Eggleston Works Andra mkII Speaker Purist Dominus Ferox Rev C Balanced 2M Interconnect Shunyata Hydra 8 AC filter Virtual Dynamics Revelation 2.0 Bi-wire Speaker cable Purist 20th Anniversary Contego Power cord Virtual Dynamics Revelation 2 Power cord
Alan, Thanks for the extra instructions, they were surely needed. At the present time I have removed all the Alan Maher and Noise Destoyer units and everything sounds better. Better dynamics and high frequency.
I will print out your guidlines and see if I can follow them at a later time.
Question. If I only have one item on one dedicated circuit and your unit sounds bad placed on that outlet, do I look in the Circuit breaker box for the circuit above that breaker to try the PE on that circuit ?
Sherod, None of my Audio Components are plugged into the Hydra 8 just Video. I have my Pass Labs Amp and APL Player(no Preamp) going into seperate dedicated outlets. This is because , I thought the Hydra 8 also resticted dynamics.
From my Video, nothing plugs into my 2 channel Audio.
We live in an area where their is enough distance between houses that each house has its own transformer. I dont know if that really matters though. I will still fiddle with these units in different places inside the home. Perhaps on the Frig and Computers circuit.
Update: I have had the Allen Maher PE's for about a year. During this time , I have replaced the CD player , cables, and added a Preamp. Still there was something missing. The sound quality was not what I thought the components were cable of.
I actually thought about selling everything and just using my Home theater set up.
One day , I took out all of the Allen Maher PE's that were in my system. Once the Allen Maher PE's were all removed , the treble became extended and the bass and soundstage improved. I found that the sound of my system was dulled or was being choked by the Allen Maher PE's.
These Allen Maher PE's definitly do something , but for my system it was not a good thing.
Tvad, I had the first ones, the $75 dollar each ones.
I heard the same thing from Allen that no one returns them. I can't believe how they limited the dynamics. I didnt realize it because they were installed for so long. But once I removed them , WHAM , my stereo was alive again.
Still, there are many others that swear by his PE's, so they must work with some systems and power sources. I sold them pretty quickly and had many offers.
For now, I prefer the sound of my Audio with the power coming straight from the wall using just good power cords and dedicated circuits.
On video, the Hydra 8 and the Noise destoyer seems to work nice.
Sherod, I have 3 dedicated circuits for my Audio.I have tried the PE's within these 3 circuits every way they could be plugged in. Outside of these 3 circuits they didnt seem to do anything.
As I said, some systems benifit from the use of these devices, mine surely did not. Good riddance...
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