Originally Posted by Tornado
Originally Posted by howiebrou
They are labelled as such as a convenience. howie

Howie, the manual actually states:

“On the Power Plant Premier, IsoZone 5 is labeled Power Amp. It is no different than any of the other 4 IsoZones, other than it is a single duplex receptacle to keep the heavy current draw of power amps from affecting more sensitive source equipment”

With this they hypothesize that this outlet differs from the rest. If and how in fact this is supported remains unknown I guess because no one will be able to validate this statement.

Originally Posted by howiebrou
3 power outlets so you can have a trifield set all powered from it

Do you mean Trifield with DSP's? VK mentioned that Mother does not recommend to have DSP behind a power conditioner.

Alex

As far as I can work out there are 3 Isozones. The power amp pair of sockets is one zone and the other zones all have several pairs of sockets together so I guess what they mean is that you should plug similar equipment within each zone but there would be no difference, if, for example, you decided to plug your power amps into zone 2 and your preamp into zone 3 (labelled Power amp). Since people are unlikely to have more than 2 monoblocks zone 3 only has two sockets to accommodate this.

As for DSP and power conditioners, I don't know of any manufacturers who recommend power conditioning but I can tell you that it makes a difference in my place and most manufacturers use them in demos anyway. I think manufacturers don't want to get involved with conditioners and power cords etc etc.

howie

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