PS Audio Power Plant To Compare Against Monster Cable And Audio Power At CES 2000
You hear a lot of talk and read a lot of hype about power conditioners and how effective they are - or are not. PS Audio, who believes that most power conditioners do little to improve power, plans to do more than just talk about it in their Suite 2107 at T.H.E. Show in the St. Tropez Hotel during the January CES. PS Audio's Paul McGowan will introduce a radical departure from charts, graphs, and hyperbole by demonstrating a user-friendly, yet sophisticated digital oscilloscope- and digital spectrum analyzer-based comparison of the PS Audio Power Plant AC generator vs. a Monster Cable HTS 3550 and a Power Wedge Power Pack II. All three units will be fed with the user's choice of either hotel power or a generated bad AC waveform. Attendees will then be able to view the results of each of these signals after being processed by any of the three units mentioned above. It is PS Audio's contention that only by generating new AC power, as found in their Power Plant series of AC power generators for the home, can your home's line voltage be made perfect. PS Audio puts forth the fact that everything electronic gets its start from the home's AC socket, and the better the AC, the better the picture or the sound that one sees and hears. One of the problems that most people are unaware of is a phenomena that PS Audio's Paul McGowan describes as ""Dynamic AC Compression"": Dynamic AC Compression results in a loss of audio dynamics and imaging quality, and a less than full video presentation where the picture's dynamics of bright colors and clear focused reproduction are compromised. Only a PS Audio Power Plant AC generator can correct for this phenomena. PS Audio engineering personnel will be on hand to explain, in simple and easy to understand terms, what the results mean and what the attendees are seeing. This live demonstration will be on-going during show hours, and PS Audio promises that it will open quite a few eyes as to what really is and isn't happening to your AC power - and, its consequent effect on your A/V system.