The PSAudio PowerPlant 15 in the photos is what you would be purchasing. The item is unused and includes all the original paperwork, remote, and accessories that it originally came with. It is black and still has the factory packaging over it. The retail on it $7,999.00 We do combine shipping so please check out our other offerings. If you want to make an offer do it through the listing. We do not answer messages about prices through eBay messages. An unpaid item case will be opened for any item that has not been paid. Gils Online is located in Hamilton, OH. We are part of a brick n mortar store and because of this we answer online questions during business hours.

Ich biete an: Netzfilter der legendären Marke Audioplan. Der Netzfilter sorgt für eine Klangverbesserung des angeschlossenen Geräts und stabile Stromversorgung für Hi-Fi-Systeme. Dank hochwertiger Filtertechnik und zuverlässiger Leistung ist er erste Wahl für anspruchsvolle Musikgenießer.Das Gerät stammt aus einem Nachlass und war jahrelang nicht in Betrieb. Bei einem Probelauf funktionierte es einwandfrei. Dennoch gilt: Dies ist ein Privatverkauf ohne Garantie und Gewährleistung.

Ich verkaufe meinen audioplan PowerPlant 100 S III (SN: BEE71116). Das Gerät ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Nichtraucherhaushalt, keine Haustiere! VHB: 299,-€

Ich verkaufe meinen audioplan PowerPlant 100 S III (SN: BEE71118). Das Gerät ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Nichtraucherhaushalt, keine Haustiere! VHB: 299,-€

Kraftvoll und samtig klingender, zukunftssicherer Hochpegel-Vollverstärker mit exzellenter Verarbeitung und hohen Leistungsreserven. Phono-MM/MC optional nachrüstbar. Hohe Leistung mit zusätzlichen Reserven dank „weichem“ Linearnetzteil, extrem niedriges Verzerrungsniveau und sehr gute Störabstände. Der POWER PLANT balanced ist mit hochwertigen symmetrischen und asymmetrischen Eingängen ausgestattet. Das symmetrische Eingangsteil (XLR) befindet sich auf einer eigenen Platine, ist vollsymmetrisch aufgebaut und über hochwertigste Differenzverstärker direkt an die Vorstufe gekoppelt. Die Cinch- und XLR-Eingänge können flexibel verschiedenen Quellgeräten zugeordnet werden. Die Eingangswahlschalter sind zur Gewährleistung von Klirr- und Rauschfreiheit mit extrem hochwertigen Goldkontaktrelais ausgestattet. Das Gerät ist technisch und optisch in Topzustand und wird mit Fernbedienung, Anleitung und Verpackung geliefert. Privatverkauf ohne Rücknahme und Garantie Die Bilder sind Gegenstand des Angebots, der Versand erfolgt in sicherer Verpackung, das Versandrisiko trägt der Käufer. Bei Fixpreisangeboten bitte von Gegenangeboten Abstand nehmen. HINWEIS: Wegen der neuen Gesetzesbestimmungen erfolgt der Verkauf unter Ausschluss jeglicher Gewährleistung, Garantie und Rücknahme. Da es sich um einen Privatverkauf handelt kann ich keine Garantie nach neuem EU-Recht übernehmen. Der Käufer erklärt sich damit einverstanden und erkennt dies mit seinem Anbot an! Laut dem neuen EU-Recht muss dieser Zusatz unter jedem Online-Verkauf stehen, ansonsten haftet der Verkäufer auch als Privatperson Wenn sie mit o.a. Bedingungen nicht einverstanden sind, bitte vom Kauf oder Bieten auf den Artikel Abstand zu nehmen, ein blick auf meine Bewertungen sollte Aussagekraft genug haben, danke.

Hi you are bidding for PS Audio Powerplant AC Regenerator 5 UK Sockets. High End Audiophile. Very good condition In pristine condition 95% Almost and full working order.Couple marks and scratches , one of the left side front face but nothing serious see pictures.What is Included: Power Cable, Manual. Doesn’t have original box , however Will be well pack and secure with tracking numbers. Review:   The mains supply could be seen to be at the very heart of the performance of your audio system. If you accept this then, If your mains is significantly distorted then effects flow through the electronics and end up distorting the reproduced sounds from your loudspeakers in a variety of subtle and not so subtle ways. A mains supply re-generator uses reconstruction techniques to either build a mains waveform from scratch, or repair it ‘on the fly’  to produce a less distorted electrical sinewave. Founded in 1974, PS Audio must be one of the longest established American hi-fi manufacturers. Headed up by hifi legend Paul McGowan, PS Audio has led the field in mains regeneration for hi fi and AV systems.  In the late 1990s PS Audio announced the P300 mains re-generator.  This introduced mains regeneration to the mass market – previously high end Japanese manufacturer Accuphase had already introduced a re-generator, but at a very high end price! The P300 used the full reconstruction technique and converted the mains supply to DC and then built up a low distortion mains supply sinewave from that.  Power output was limited to about 300W and so was useful for source equipment but couldn’t handle a decent sized power amp. The chassis also got seriously hot and it had a quite noisy fan!  But apart from that it worked well.  I bought one pretty much as soon as they were available in the UK and despite the issues mentioned I found it to be very beneficial sonically Subsequent PS Audio ‘full’ re-generators provided more power but were very large and heavy and they gave out ever more heat requiring ever more fan ventilation.  Not a recipe for harmony in the home!  PS Audio then changed direction a little and ‘on the fly’ repair of the mains supply waveform became the objective.  This required far less power and was also more cost effective. The Power Plant Premier under review is capable of outputting 1500W of low distortion mains power and is housed in a very attractive chassis.  It even has remote control! More recently,  the Power Plant P5 and P10 have been introduced.  They have even higher power reserves, touch screen controls and can even connect to the internet – so you can send a signal from your iPhone as you are leaving work to power up your system so it’s nice and warmed up and ready to go as soon as you get home.  Amazing really. The Power Plant Premier (PPP) … OK, let’s forget the history and the techie stuff.  How does the PP Premier perform?   I think it looks fab in a sleek and sexy way. On the rear, one mains input IEC socket, and 5 UK mains sockets to plug gear into.  Of course, you can plug a mains block into one of the outlets if you have more than 5 components to be powered. The blue display has 3 brightness settings and is dimmable from quite bright to very dim indeed, and off . The display shows input and output values of both voltage and % Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). The PPP can easily handle my full system, including the 250WPC Parasound A21 power amp. There’s a fan in the PPP that powers up for a few seconds when it is first turned on, but it has never yet come on while music is playing.  I doubt it ever will, the chassis barely gets above gently warm even when the walls are flexing with the sound levels! OK, on to the sonics … I plugged my system’s components into it one at a time to assess the incremental improvements. I started off with the Krell KRC-3 pre-amp … hmm, yes, quite a nice improvement.  Images were  a tad more solid, backgrounds a bit darker.  Everything just a touch more tactile.  Not too bad, but not really worth shouting about either. Just a little dis-heartened I then plugged the ‘Big Mutha’  Parasound Halo A21 power amp in, no longer expecting too much … Bloody hell, I practically fell off my chair! An astonishing improvement in a piece of kit I already held in very high regard (see separate Hifi Pig review of the A21). At this point I was concerned about powering the CD player as well –  I’m was afraid an usher would come round and ask me if I’d bought a ticket on the way in to the concert hall! The CD player was then PPPed …. same sort of story as for the Krell pre-amp – small improvements. To be honest, based on the PPP’s performance with source components I doubt I would keep it – I think there would be better ways to spend the money.  But the performance enhancement with the power amp totally changes that result. In summary, the improvements from using the Power Plant Premier with my Parasound A21 power amp … 1. substantially improved transparency 2. improved resolution of fine detail 3. blacker blacks, the silences are more silent.  I thought I had a silent backdrop to recordings before, but I guess low level background grunge is only noticeable when you reduce it further! 4. all of which result in far better 3D holographic imaging and a vastly improved “you are there” experience. As I said, I’ve previously owned a P300 …. it didn’t come close to this level of performance in terms of overall system improvement, but then you couldn’t run a big power amp from it, and that’s where I hear the main benefits of the Premier. I guess other systems may respond differently, and other homes will have different quality mains as well. For those who are curious about the fundamental technical performance of the PPP in my home … according to the readouts my mains voltage varies between 225V and 245V, the PPP always outputs 240V or very near it.  And the incoming THD on the mains is usually between 2.5% and 3%, and the output from the PPP varies between 0.4% and 0.7%, a range which seems dependent on the amount of voltage correction that is needed. compatible with : Compatible with amplifier , power amplifier, integrated denon naim audio research mc intosh accuphase atoll cabasse nad klipsch jbl jmr vecteur cambridge hi fi luxman audio analogue thorens fostex musical fidelity yamaha onkyo triangle stax electrocompaniet celestion luxman bryston bose tannoy bryston onyx audiolab aura krell infinity rotel linn ampli micromega consonnance martin logan cyrus rotel linn jmlab audioquest unison research focal conrad johnson platine audio research apertura elac cyrus grundig kef kenwood cayin technics harman kardon siare pioneer cairn meridian quad mark levinson audio note B&W davis audiosynth a cec esoteric exposure gamut icos hegel jolida méridian moon myryad primare roksan T+A sphinx thule vincent jamo wharfedale kenwood audax altec onken goto sugden stello supravox tannoy chiltone accuphase air tight EAR, etalon, goldmund, icos, lavardin, leben, nagra, cello, audio research, mcintosh, chord, gryphon, luxman, hegel, , tri, dynaudio, jbl, tannoy, klipsch, proac, mulidine, jmr, dali, quellis, harbeth, b&w, magnepan, spendor, apertura YBA Mark Levinson Jeff Rowland Ayre, Pass Labs, Nakamichi, Classé Audio, Etalon, Sonic Frontiers, Brinkmann, Jadis enceintes, ampli, dac, preampli, hifi, audiophile,enceinte moon primare roksan T+A sphinx thule vincent jamo wharfedale kenwood audax altec onken goto sugden stello supravox tannoy chiltone accuphase air tight EAR, etalon, goldmund, icos, lavardin, leben, nagra, cello, audio research, mcintosh, chord, gryphon, luxman, hegel, kr, sim, lamm, tri, dynaudio, jbl, tannoy, klipsch, proac, mulidine, jmr, dali, quellis, apertura arcam atoll audio analogue cayin cambridge jamo jbl cabasse sony yamaha jvc cary cayin cec chord classé conrad johnson coplan consonnance creek cyrus denon densen gamut hartley icos jadis jeff roland jolida kora krell marantz melody microméga moon musical fidelity myryad nad naim parasound pathos linn raysonic prima luna rega david manley roksan rotel t+a sun audio thule unison research vincent yba Yamaha bw cabasse trianle focal pierre étienne léon apertura martin thiel nuforce jeff rowland forsell thiel mac intosh arcam b&w golmund harbeth denon jvc bc oehlbach, Supra Sword, Nordost, Real cable, YBA, Esprit, audio note, Xindak, Monster, qed, heavens gate audio, hms, shunyata, transparent audio, oyaide, mit , audioquest, Hifi Câble & Co, siltech,stéréovox sei 600 lsp 600,kubala sosna émotion ,jorma origo et prime,actinote,tara labs cardas van den hul ecosse qed crystal clear audioMAAT , PureTrans , Audioquest Beoehlbach, Supra Sword, Nordost, Real cable, YBA, Esprit, audio note, Xindak, Monster, qed, heavens gate audio, hms, shunyata, transparent audio, oyaide, mit , audioquest, Hifi Câble & Co, siltech drock , HMS , Olflex , REAL CABLE , Hifi câbles et Compagnie , Accuphase , Maxitrans , SOBEK , Cable esprit , Audioquest , synergistic research , Goertz , Atmos air , Rega , Esoteric audio , monster xp, qued , transparent cables , Absolue creations Audience , JPS , MusicMetre , JC , Gutwire , Van den Hul , HiDiamond , Supra , Eichmann , Ortofon , Jenas , MIT ou Goldmund Nad, Denon, Onkyo, Atoll, Jmlab, JMR, Yamaha, Cabasse, Klipsch, Naim, Linn, Proton, Accuphase, Proac, Dynaudio, PEL, Bada, Quad, Qed, Etalon, Xindak, Chevin, Musical Fidelity, Zu, Tannoy, JBL, B&W, CEC, Vélodyne, Vincent, Wilson Audio, Nuforce, Anthem, Harman Kardon, Cambridge, Rotel, Esoteric, Athom, Marantz, Sherwood, Kora, Cyrius, Kef, Microméga, ARCAM, Pioneer, Focal, Emotiva, Paradigm, YBA, Advance Acoustic, Jamo, Sony, Oppo, Mc Intosh, marin Logan, Elipson, Rega, Chord, Rogue, Audio research, Bc Acoustique, Luxman, Davis, Elac, GKF, Primare, Air Tight, Consonnance, Yaqin, Triangle, Monitor audio rotel nad cambridge marantz myryad vincent focal B&W atohm davis quad mcintosh totem harman kardon monitor audio klipsch elipson jbl carat velodyne luxman thule kef proton arcam naim cary moon hegel nu force musical fidelity isem neodio fostex dynaudio onkyo nikko luxman pierre etienne leon eera micromega meridian spendor tannoy jm lab primare confluence cabasse yba jbl denon yamaha thorens rega teacbryston infinity atoll focal davis norma Amphion

Hi you are bidding for PS Audio Powerplant AC Regenerator 5 UK Sockets. High End Audiophile. Very good condition In pristine condition 95% Almost and full working order.Couple marks and scratches , one of the left side front face but nothing serious see pictures.What is Included: Power Cable, Manual. Doesn’t have original box , however Will be well pack and secure with tracking numbers. Review:   The mains supply could be seen to be at the very heart of the performance of your audio system. If you accept this then, If your mains is significantly distorted then effects flow through the electronics and end up distorting the reproduced sounds from your loudspeakers in a variety of subtle and not so subtle ways. A mains supply re-generator uses reconstruction techniques to either build a mains waveform from scratch, or repair it ‘on the fly’  to produce a less distorted electrical sinewave. Founded in 1974, PS Audio must be one of the longest established American hi-fi manufacturers. Headed up by hifi legend Paul McGowan, PS Audio has led the field in mains regeneration for hi fi and AV systems.  In the late 1990s PS Audio announced the P300 mains re-generator.  This introduced mains regeneration to the mass market – previously high end Japanese manufacturer Accuphase had already introduced a re-generator, but at a very high end price! The P300 used the full reconstruction technique and converted the mains supply to DC and then built up a low distortion mains supply sinewave from that.  Power output was limited to about 300W and so was useful for source equipment but couldn’t handle a decent sized power amp. The chassis also got seriously hot and it had a quite noisy fan!  But apart from that it worked well.  I bought one pretty much as soon as they were available in the UK and despite the issues mentioned I found it to be very beneficial sonically Subsequent PS Audio ‘full’ re-generators provided more power but were very large and heavy and they gave out ever more heat requiring ever more fan ventilation.  Not a recipe for harmony in the home!  PS Audio then changed direction a little and ‘on the fly’ repair of the mains supply waveform became the objective.  This required far less power and was also more cost effective. The Power Plant Premier under review is capable of outputting 1500W of low distortion mains power and is housed in a very attractive chassis.  It even has remote control! More recently,  the Power Plant P5 and P10 have been introduced.  They have even higher power reserves, touch screen controls and can even connect to the internet – so you can send a signal from your iPhone as you are leaving work to power up your system so it’s nice and warmed up and ready to go as soon as you get home.  Amazing really. The Power Plant Premier (PPP) … OK, let’s forget the history and the techie stuff.  How does the PP Premier perform?   I think it looks fab in a sleek and sexy way. On the rear, one mains input IEC socket, and 5 UK mains sockets to plug gear into.  Of course, you can plug a mains block into one of the outlets if you have more than 5 components to be powered. The blue display has 3 brightness settings and is dimmable from quite bright to very dim indeed, and off . The display shows input and output values of both voltage and % Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). The PPP can easily handle my full system, including the 250WPC Parasound A21 power amp. There’s a fan in the PPP that powers up for a few seconds when it is first turned on, but it has never yet come on while music is playing.  I doubt it ever will, the chassis barely gets above gently warm even when the walls are flexing with the sound levels! OK, on to the sonics … I plugged my system’s components into it one at a time to assess the incremental improvements. I started off with the Krell KRC-3 pre-amp … hmm, yes, quite a nice improvement.  Images were  a tad more solid, backgrounds a bit darker.  Everything just a touch more tactile.  Not too bad, but not really worth shouting about either. Just a little dis-heartened I then plugged the ‘Big Mutha’  Parasound Halo A21 power amp in, no longer expecting too much … Bloody hell, I practically fell off my chair! An astonishing improvement in a piece of kit I already held in very high regard (see separate Hifi Pig review of the A21). At this point I was concerned about powering the CD player as well –  I’m was afraid an usher would come round and ask me if I’d bought a ticket on the way in to the concert hall! The CD player was then PPPed …. same sort of story as for the Krell pre-amp – small improvements. To be honest, based on the PPP’s performance with source components I doubt I would keep it – I think there would be better ways to spend the money.  But the performance enhancement with the power amp totally changes that result. In summary, the improvements from using the Power Plant Premier with my Parasound A21 power amp … 1. substantially improved transparency 2. improved resolution of fine detail 3. blacker blacks, the silences are more silent.  I thought I had a silent backdrop to recordings before, but I guess low level background grunge is only noticeable when you reduce it further! 4. all of which result in far better 3D holographic imaging and a vastly improved “you are there” experience. As I said, I’ve previously owned a P300 …. it didn’t come close to this level of performance in terms of overall system improvement, but then you couldn’t run a big power amp from it, and that’s where I hear the main benefits of the Premier. I guess other systems may respond differently, and other homes will have different quality mains as well. For those who are curious about the fundamental technical performance of the PPP in my home … according to the readouts my mains voltage varies between 225V and 245V, the PPP always outputs 240V or very near it.  And the incoming THD on the mains is usually between 2.5% and 3%, and the output from the PPP varies between 0.4% and 0.7%, a range which seems dependent on the amount of voltage correction that is needed. compatible with : Compatible with amplifier , power amplifier, integrated denon naim audio research mc intosh accuphase atoll cabasse nad klipsch jbl jmr vecteur cambridge hi fi luxman audio analogue thorens fostex musical fidelity yamaha onkyo triangle stax electrocompaniet celestion luxman bryston bose tannoy bryston onyx audiolab aura krell infinity rotel linn ampli micromega consonnance martin logan cyrus rotel linn jmlab audioquest unison research focal conrad johnson platine audio research apertura elac cyrus grundig kef kenwood cayin technics harman kardon siare pioneer cairn meridian quad mark levinson audio note B&W davis audiosynth a cec esoteric exposure gamut icos hegel jolida méridian moon myryad primare roksan T+A sphinx thule vincent jamo wharfedale kenwood audax altec onken goto sugden stello supravox tannoy chiltone accuphase air tight EAR, etalon, goldmund, icos, lavardin, leben, nagra, cello, audio research, mcintosh, chord, gryphon, luxman, hegel, , tri, dynaudio, jbl, tannoy, klipsch, proac, mulidine, jmr, dali, quellis, harbeth, b&w, magnepan, spendor, apertura YBA Mark Levinson Jeff Rowland Ayre, Pass Labs, Nakamichi, Classé Audio, Etalon, Sonic Frontiers, Brinkmann, Jadis enceintes, ampli, dac, preampli, hifi, audiophile,enceinte moon primare roksan T+A sphinx thule vincent jamo wharfedale kenwood audax altec onken goto sugden stello supravox tannoy chiltone accuphase air tight EAR, etalon, goldmund, icos, lavardin, leben, nagra, cello, audio research, mcintosh, chord, gryphon, luxman, hegel, kr, sim, lamm, tri, dynaudio, jbl, tannoy, klipsch, proac, mulidine, jmr, dali, quellis, apertura arcam atoll audio analogue cayin cambridge jamo jbl cabasse sony yamaha jvc cary cayin cec chord classé conrad johnson coplan consonnance creek cyrus denon densen gamut hartley icos jadis jeff roland jolida kora krell marantz melody microméga moon musical fidelity myryad nad naim parasound pathos linn raysonic prima luna rega david manley roksan rotel t+a sun audio thule unison research vincent yba Yamaha bw cabasse trianle focal pierre étienne léon apertura martin thiel nuforce jeff rowland forsell thiel mac intosh arcam b&w golmund harbeth denon jvc bc oehlbach, Supra Sword, Nordost, Real cable, YBA, Esprit, audio note, Xindak, Monster, qed, heavens gate audio, hms, shunyata, transparent audio, oyaide, mit , audioquest, Hifi Câble & Co, siltech,stéréovox sei 600 lsp 600,kubala sosna émotion ,jorma origo et prime,actinote,tara labs cardas van den hul ecosse qed crystal clear audioMAAT , PureTrans , Audioquest Beoehlbach, Supra Sword, Nordost, Real cable, YBA, Esprit, audio note, Xindak, Monster, qed, heavens gate audio, hms, shunyata, transparent audio, oyaide, mit , audioquest, Hifi Câble & Co, siltech drock , HMS , Olflex , REAL CABLE , Hifi câbles et Compagnie , Accuphase , Maxitrans , SOBEK , Cable esprit , Audioquest , synergistic research , Goertz , Atmos air , Rega , Esoteric audio , monster xp, qued , transparent cables , Absolue creations Audience , JPS , MusicMetre , JC , Gutwire , Van den Hul , HiDiamond , Supra , Eichmann , Ortofon , Jenas , MIT ou Goldmund Nad, Denon, Onkyo, Atoll, Jmlab, JMR, Yamaha, Cabasse, Klipsch, Naim, Linn, Proton, Accuphase, Proac, Dynaudio, PEL, Bada, Quad, Qed, Etalon, Xindak, Chevin, Musical Fidelity, Zu, Tannoy, JBL, B&W, CEC, Vélodyne, Vincent, Wilson Audio, Nuforce, Anthem, Harman Kardon, Cambridge, Rotel, Esoteric, Athom, Marantz, Sherwood, Kora, Cyrius, Kef, Microméga, ARCAM, Pioneer, Focal, Emotiva, Paradigm, YBA, Advance Acoustic, Jamo, Sony, Oppo, Mc Intosh, marin Logan, Elipson, Rega, Chord, Rogue, Audio research, Bc Acoustique, Luxman, Davis, Elac, GKF, Primare, Air Tight, Consonnance, Yaqin, Triangle, Monitor audio rotel nad cambridge marantz myryad vincent focal B&W atohm davis quad mcintosh totem harman kardon monitor audio klipsch elipson jbl carat velodyne luxman thule kef proton arcam naim cary moon hegel nu force musical fidelity isem neodio fostex dynaudio onkyo nikko luxman pierre etienne leon eera micromega meridian spendor tannoy jm lab primare confluence cabasse yba jbl denon yamaha thorens rega teacbryston infinity atoll focal davis norma Amphion

Hi you are bidding for PS Audio Powerplant AC Regenerator 5 UK Sockets. High End Audiophile. Very good condition In pristine condition 95% Almost and full working order.Couple marks and scratches , one of the left side front face but nothing serious see pictures.What is Included: Power Cable, Manual. Doesn’t have original box , however Will be well pack and secure with tracking numbers. Review:   The mains supply could be seen to be at the very heart of the performance of your audio system. If you accept this then, If your mains is significantly distorted then effects flow through the electronics and end up distorting the reproduced sounds from your loudspeakers in a variety of subtle and not so subtle ways. A mains supply re-generator uses reconstruction techniques to either build a mains waveform from scratch, or repair it ‘on the fly’  to produce a less distorted electrical sinewave. Founded in 1974, PS Audio must be one of the longest established American hi-fi manufacturers. Headed up by hifi legend Paul McGowan, PS Audio has led the field in mains regeneration for hi fi and AV systems.  In the late 1990s PS Audio announced the P300 mains re-generator.  This introduced mains regeneration to the mass market – previously high end Japanese manufacturer Accuphase had already introduced a re-generator, but at a very high end price! The P300 used the full reconstruction technique and converted the mains supply to DC and then built up a low distortion mains supply sinewave from that.  Power output was limited to about 300W and so was useful for source equipment but couldn’t handle a decent sized power amp. The chassis also got seriously hot and it had a quite noisy fan!  But apart from that it worked well.  I bought one pretty much as soon as they were available in the UK and despite the issues mentioned I found it to be very beneficial sonically Subsequent PS Audio ‘full’ re-generators provided more power but were very large and heavy and they gave out ever more heat requiring ever more fan ventilation.  Not a recipe for harmony in the home!  PS Audio then changed direction a little and ‘on the fly’ repair of the mains supply waveform became the objective.  This required far less power and was also more cost effective. The Power Plant Premier under review is capable of outputting 1500W of low distortion mains power and is housed in a very attractive chassis.  It even has remote control! More recently,  the Power Plant P5 and P10 have been introduced.  They have even higher power reserves, touch screen controls and can even connect to the internet – so you can send a signal from your iPhone as you are leaving work to power up your system so it’s nice and warmed up and ready to go as soon as you get home.  Amazing really. The Power Plant Premier (PPP) … OK, let’s forget the history and the techie stuff.  How does the PP Premier perform?   I think it looks fab in a sleek and sexy way. On the rear, one mains input IEC socket, and 5 UK mains sockets to plug gear into.  Of course, you can plug a mains block into one of the outlets if you have more than 5 components to be powered. The blue display has 3 brightness settings and is dimmable from quite bright to very dim indeed, and off . The display shows input and output values of both voltage and % Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). The PPP can easily handle my full system, including the 250WPC Parasound A21 power amp. There’s a fan in the PPP that powers up for a few seconds when it is first turned on, but it has never yet come on while music is playing.  I doubt it ever will, the chassis barely gets above gently warm even when the walls are flexing with the sound levels! OK, on to the sonics … I plugged my system’s components into it one at a time to assess the incremental improvements. I started off with the Krell KRC-3 pre-amp … hmm, yes, quite a nice improvement.  Images were  a tad more solid, backgrounds a bit darker.  Everything just a touch more tactile.  Not too bad, but not really worth shouting about either. Just a little dis-heartened I then plugged the ‘Big Mutha’  Parasound Halo A21 power amp in, no longer expecting too much … Bloody hell, I practically fell off my chair! An astonishing improvement in a piece of kit I already held in very high regard (see separate Hifi Pig review of the A21). At this point I was concerned about powering the CD player as well –  I’m was afraid an usher would come round and ask me if I’d bought a ticket on the way in to the concert hall! The CD player was then PPPed …. same sort of story as for the Krell pre-amp – small improvements. To be honest, based on the PPP’s performance with source components I doubt I would keep it – I think there would be better ways to spend the money.  But the performance enhancement with the power amp totally changes that result. In summary, the improvements from using the Power Plant Premier with my Parasound A21 power amp … 1. substantially improved transparency 2. improved resolution of fine detail 3. blacker blacks, the silences are more silent.  I thought I had a silent backdrop to recordings before, but I guess low level background grunge is only noticeable when you reduce it further! 4. all of which result in far better 3D holographic imaging and a vastly improved “you are there” experience. As I said, I’ve previously owned a P300 …. it didn’t come close to this level of performance in terms of overall system improvement, but then you couldn’t run a big power amp from it, and that’s where I hear the main benefits of the Premier. I guess other systems may respond differently, and other homes will have different quality mains as well. 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