It took me a long time to fully appreciate that the power we feed our systems is the signal.
Think about it. Every sound that comes out of a loudspeaker starts as electricity from the wall. That 60Hz AC gets filtered, rectified, regulated, and ultimately turned into musical movement. If the power isn’t clean, the music can’t be either.
I learned this the hard way.
Back in the early days of PS Audio, we were trying to understand why some gear sounded amazing in our lab but sometimes lifeless in customers' homes. To make it even weirder, some times of the day it sounded amazing while other times of the day it sucked. Nothing explained it.
What could it be? What could the common denominator be that seemed to impact us all one way or the other?
The AC power.
That’s what led us down the path of power regeneration. Not filtering, not isolation—regeneration. Build a new waveform from scratch, a pure sine wave, super low impedance, low distortion. It wasn’t about headroom or current—it was about giving the music a clean foundation to stand on.
Once you hear it, you can’t go back. The bass gets tighter. The top end opens up. Soundstage clarity improves. Not because the power regenerator “boosts” the system, but because it stops polluting it.
So when someone asks me if power matters, I smile.
Because power is the music—it just hasn’t been converted yet.
