Your opinion, many we know about in audiophile circles will disagree on it.
That’s your opinion you should ask people in my audiophile circles
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Even our member Steve Williams uses solar energy in his Lamm ML3 and LL1 system with great success - solar electricity is just a regenerator converting DC to AC. Renewable electricity injects electricity coming from regenerators in the mains - and there is a good probably that our neighbors have cheap noisy inverters! As we are moving to a inverter based grid system should we expect that soon people will find that their systems sound poor in sunny days and in California?
Saying something loud and using metaphors does not make it a fact.
You can’t change facts by attacking the messenger either.
I am fortunate to live less than 100 meters away from a substation, I do not need a power regenerator. But when I owned a PsAudio P10 I did not find any coloration associated to it.
The influence of mains "quality" in stereo sound quality was never systematically studied and openly debated with proper data. At best we share experiences, nothing else.
Easy to hear the coloration of small regenerators, transformers, or any audiophile mains related box one can put in their room, wether one likes the effect or not is a personal preference, nothing to argue there.
Industrial inverters are different from audiophile boxes and in Steve’s case there’s no way to do before and after comparison.
Don’t know what you mean by systematically studied, there are plenty of companies making mains related products for audio, video, manufacturing, hospitals, etc. so something has been done.
Isn't this just part of the audiophile journey. I mean we are always looking for the next step to bring us closer to our nirvana. For most that is buying a new pair of speakers, or that new power amp, or new cables. I bet many audiophiles never get round to optimising the mains. If you live in an apartment you may not have many options, and there is always the question of how far you go - do you get the power company to upgrade the transformer, do you install 3 phase power, maybe start your own power company
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I suspect that we all don't realise some of the things that are holding us back until we have fixed them.
I really try hard to relieve many of my customers from this journey which depending on where one lives can be hellish. I believe that getting basic mains setup right is cornerstone of good sound and long term satisfaction for a system owner. In this case we’re criticizing an industry member with many years of experience and access who should know better and not just an audiophile.
One can go as far as they want but I’m really talking about the basics.
david