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What is "clean" power?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

Ideally the AC power that feeds our high performance audio, home theater and studio systems would be rock steady –  it would not go up or down in voltage depending on the time of the day and it would not get interrupted by storms or accidents.

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What are spikes and surges?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

Lightning* is perhaps the most well known surge event as it is capable of causing catastrophic equipment damage where whole systems are destroyed with one 6000V+ strike.

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What is powerline noise?

by Nyal Mellor April 08, 2013

The exact effect of noise is dependent on the quality of the power supply inside your equipment, but unfortunately there is no relationship between equipment price and power supply performance!

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What are outages and blackouts?

by Nyal Mellor January 08, 2013

Storms and accidents are frequent causes of power loss. Faults in transmission infrastructure can also sometimes occur.

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Power and Grounding: The Acoustic Frontiers Approach

by Nyal Mellor March 07, 2012

We recently spent some serious research & development time developing what could be called the Acoustic Frontiers approach to power and grounding for audio, home theater and studios. The results of this effort can be found on the new power pages on our website and in the three brands that we are proud to represent.

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