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Paul McGowan’s PS Audio company has been well established in High-End audio since the early 1970′s. They have had many highly positive reviews to their credit from the various High-End audio journals, such as ‘the Absolute Sound’. You can read the full colourful history of the company here.

PS Audio have produced a number of legendary pre-amplifiers, power amplifiers and digital components. They have also turned their skills to the all important area of improving the quality of the mains which powers your system. If you live in an environment with an ideal mains supply where the voltage never varies more than a few percentage points from the standard (230 volts in Europe) and the distortion present on your power lines is 0.5% or less, then your mains would not need improving. However, such an ideal environment probably doesn’t exit or is very rare. If you live in a typical urban environment, your mains is probably a good deal worse than this.

In order to produce music the various components in your audio system are simply modulating the original mains signal in various ways until the end result exits your speakers. So your mains is literally the source or root of the sound your system creates. If this root isn’t as pure and clean as possible, neither will the music be pure or accurately reproduced. Without a clean mains you’re building your system on a less than stable foundation.

Enter the Power Plant Premier, pictured above. This product resembles a medium sized power amplifier and has a very informative digital display on it’s attractive front panel. The information you choose to display is selectable from the supplied remote control. It includes the raw input voltage as well as the total harmonic distortion present on your mains. With the touch of a button you can then compare this with the new purer mains being output by the Power Plant Premier to your audio components. For example here at Sound Galleries our Power Plant Premier is currently reading an input 240 volts, almost 5% too much. The Power Plant Premier has reduced this to a far more acceptable and stable 234 volts on its newly regenerated mains. The distortion on the incoming mains is reading 1.4%. The Power Plant Premier has reduced this right down to just 0.3%. So with the Power Plant Premier you can tell at a glance just how much improvement your getting to your mains signal before it enters any of your audio components. Our situation at Sound Galleries is probably far better than might be encountered in a typical home environment, since we are running a dedicated line for the Audio systems and using Hospital Grade Power outlets.

What does this level of improvement to the mains result in? Instruments emerge naturally from the fabric of the acoustic environment they were recorded in. The resolution of details is far higher, so your brain doesn’t have to work overtime to fill in missing information. This results in the ability to listen far longer without fatigue as well as making your listening sessions more enjoyable. It should also result in greater reliability and longevity of your audio components.

How are these amazing results achieved? The Power Plant Premier literally generates a brand new sparkling clean mains. It does this by first converting your AC (alternating current) mains to DC (Direct Current) and then out of this converted DC it generates a new cleaned up and stabilised AC mains for feeding your audio system. It even employs nano-technology to achieve this and you can’t get much more cutting edge than that.

The Power Plant Premier is one of a number of excellent products available from PS Audio’s PS Power line which ensure you Audio system is built on stable and reliable roots. Visit PS Audio