PS Audio Noise Harvester


Hi,

I just ordered a PS Audio Noise Harvester and I would like to know people's experince with the PS Audio Noise Harvester and the improvement in sound. Does it work also with a 220V system?

Thanks!

Thierry
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Yes musicseller, your house it probably that dirty.

I have a ton of parallel stuff in my house due to it being a dirty house and also a dirty suburban neighberhood I am guessing. The more I add the better it keeps getting though I may be topping off now.

You may wonder whats up with my house, but over the couple years I have added 25 different parallel conditioners, two richard gray 400's and audioprism foundation 2 for parallel conditioning and being able to plug all these in. Two quantum symphony pros and a hydra as my main souce conditioner. I kept getting better as I kept adding.

One of my problems is my theater has 13 lights on it and it uses the dimmer so this adds tons of noise to the system not to mention all the other lights on dimmers around the house. And yes, the noise harvesters go nuts with the 13 lights dimmed in the theater. Though its become less with all the conditioning.

Yes Drubin, all the lights dimmed in the theater did effect the sound in my system. It clearly took life out of the sound. I have one of the dimmer switches behind me so when I am on the couch I can reach my hand back to dim the lights or just simply turn them off. So sitting listening to two channel I tried it on and off staying in my sitting position and it was clear how having them dimmed affected the sound for the worse.

This test with the dimmer on and off was at the time before I add about 9 more parallel condioners, so it was clear that I still had a lot of conditioning at the time. I now don't hear the drop in sound quality with all the lights dimmed in the theater. I should out of curiosity, try dimming all the lights in my house and see what it does???

With all the conditioners I use 5 bc noise hound mk3, 6 quantum electroclears, 5 enacoms, 1 audioprism quiteline mk3, and 9 noise noise harvestors. The noise harvestor seem to be a good value and they are very easy and small. The bc 86, NH, and enacoms seem to give about the same amound of conditioning. The quantums are a completly different beast that works on different princables though they work well in my system.

I think the important thing I was trying to acomplish cause I am no electrical wizard is having a variety of MANY different parralel conditioners. I think they all work differently cleaning different types of noise at different frequencies so as a team they may be getting a full spectrum of the garbage in the lines??
I am also skeptical, but at the price it might be worth trying. At least it can function as test gear, even if there is no effect on the sound quality.

The supposed effect of AC power noise is a mystery to me. I have a light over my turntable which is plugged into power from a dimmer. Dimmers are supposed to be a disaster near audio equipment: I expected to turn the light off while listening. However, the dimmer has absolutely no effect on the audio equipment. None. Nada.

This is a relatively new dimmer. I have another decades-old dimmer installed in a portable junction box that I use for powering christmas tree lights. (If you drop the voltage a bit the bulbs last much longer). It causes a bad buzz.

There are dimmers, and there are dimmers.
eldartford,
Is it one light on the dimmer above the turntable?

I have found that the more lights on the dimmer the worse it is. The fact that there are 13 lights on one dimmer is a disaster. If you only have one or two that is way less garbage going into the line.
Freemand...Just one low wattage bulb above the TT, so maybe you explained it. However, dimmers that I have purchased lately make claims about not generating noise.
I just purchased one on a lark.... the thing flashes like crazy... frequency changes so something is going on. How does it sound, or improve my system? Nada. Nothing. Not worth it. Cool concept.
PeaceBruce in Philly