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Originally Posted by GrubTheHedgehog
The notion that Ayre gear or the Ayre conditioner has immunized Ayre products from the effects of after market cables and conditioners is just wrong. Ayre never made such a claim, and the fact that they felt the power issue was important enough to build filtering into the device itself militates in favor of the potential efficaciousness of after market solutions that do even more, better filtering. Think of it as an upgrade to an already great power supply.
I have never heard Ayre gear sound better than when paired with some or the best power accessories.
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You're exactly right there. While I obviously believe the built-in filtering in our products is second-to-none, there's no such thing as a perfect brick wall when it comes to incoming voltage. We even make the L-5 to provide additional power filtering using similar technology to the built-in filtering for that reason (and to help the non-Ayre gear). Depending on how much noise is on the line, you can certainly hear an improvement by adding a filter, though oddly, sometimes removing them helps too.
At our old building, we were in the center of a pretty industrial area and had to have everything hooked into L-5s to get the room to sound its best. Our new area is in a more remote location and doesn't have to share with as many neighbors. Suddenly, reserving the L-5s for only the non-Ayre pieces in our system provided a better sound than having everything running through them. The difficulty is that each room and each listener is different, so some experimentation is involved. The only constant we've experienced is to stay clear of power "regenerators". They almost always end up causing more problems than they are meant to solve for us. We feel the less active the filter is, the better job it will do. Of course, your mileage may vary.