

The greater the regulation the lower the impedance the better the sound quality.Īn AC regenerator like our Power Plants provides the tightest regulation and highest current delivery of any power product on the market today. It turns out that voltage regulation is far more important than clean power.

An isolation transformer helps keep unwanted noise from the system at the cost of voltage regulation. When we place an isolation transformer in the AC path we improve one area, cleanliness, by degrading another, regulation and impedance. Where it used to be alright to swap a major piece of equipment in the chain without too much worry, now even the smallest bits have a great impact. As I mentioned in yesterday's post about the Long Tail, as we get closer to perfection each link in our progress chain become more important. We work closely with your team to develop the best audio isolation transformer solution for your product. I have most of my gear including a tube preamp plugged into it mostly for protection purposes. It’s a 12 cube that weighs roughly 60 lbs and has 8 plugs in the back. We know that low output impedance is preferable yet at what cost? I bought an isolation transformer from a fellow selling his home audio gear about a year or so ago. This question of influencing performance can be a real headscratcher: we know that lower distortion is a good thing yet not all low distortion amps sound good. The cleanest power in the world only gets you so far. The simple answer is that the problem is not that simple. How can it be true that an improvement over here impacts performance over there? An isolation transformer cleans up noise on the AC line yet often harms system performance.
