What is this Anyway?

Welcome!

This blog is all about the quality of AC power that reaches our homes, and what audiophiles and videophiles can do about it.

For a complete discussion on power conditioners, go to an article I wrote years ago, here: PQLTD.COM Power Conditioning. You may have seen articles which have a similar structure or wording. As far as I know, my article came first.

What makes this blog special? First, what I'm doing is dangerous. Unlike your average reviewer of power conditioners, who sits in a posh air conditioned room, surrounded by thousands of dollars of audio equipment he didn't pay for, sipping wine and listening to his boundless collection of CD's, I will risk life and limb in each posting. I'm actually going to be connecting the AC power to my laptop through a specially designed buffer. I'm going from the AC power to my laptop with no more than a couple of resistors, film caps and an op-amp in between. Oh, did I mention I don't actually know that much about what I'm doing? That's right, it's all an experiment. Just think of a hill-billy strapping a rocket to the top of his Ford F-150 and you'll get the idea.

Second, I am not going to listen to the conditioners. In a world where stones and cable lifters are being used to tune systems to the "heights of realism" in high end audio systems, I think it would be too easy for me to ascribe a quality to the sound of a power conditioner which it doesn't have. The other problem is that honestly, the better your equipment's power supplies, the less effect a power conditioner will have.

More in my next post!

Cheers,

Erik