More HiFi Power! Puritan PSM156 HiFi Review 

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Hi Michael, I've owned a Puritan PSM 156 and the Ultimate power cord for over a year. This piece of equipment will never leave my system....one of the best acquisitions I've ever made. Another acquisition that will never leave my system, my Aperion aluminum ribbon super tweeter.....fantastic!

As a power conditioner, I use a Tripp Lite Isobar wall plug-in unit, no cord. I even add an obsidian crystal tower to sit on top of the Tripp Lite. My goal is to stop and clean the noise after thousands of miles of dirty line noise at the wall. From there, I use some eB pure silver cables with Furutech NCF ends to provide even more grounding between the wall and power distributor. My power distributor is another eB no name product that uses Furutech outlets and pure silver wiring. Attached to that, I adhere a Furutech NCF booster to diminish even more noise. Beyond this, I apply Furutech Liquid Nano on all my contacts.

So I finally got a Puritan to demo into my system and got to listen some last night. I have a couple of dedicated lines coming in on a rock solid power grid, so didn't expect much--until I started spinning records. It's really almost like the entire system took a step up. I was hearing more information, I swear I was hearing more bass (or at least better articulated bass), and everything seemed more relaxed and more alive at the same time. The only down side is when I plugged my tube amp directly into the Puritan (along with all my other components), I was hearing a slight buzz. Plugged the amp directly into the wall (which is what I usually do) and everything was dead quiet. Can't wait to demo some more this evening. The only question now is which power cord to get!

Love the review. I upgraded from the AQ Niagara 1200 to the 156. Waiting for my Ultimate power cable to upgrade. What was interesting is I upgraded my integrated amp-to a used unit-and found that the new amp, although used, needed burn in.

I made a post on the FB EATS forum shortly referring to my experience regarding power conditioners...you have to find out which one works for you. In my case I found mine 😊 In my setup absolutely essential components, I would never want to miss this category of devices. Thx for your thought's on the Puritan and good you also checked various ac cords

I concur. A rare case of a cheaper device vastly outperforming much more expensive ones. Dead quiet, strongly recommended with their Ultimate power cord. It blew out of the water the Cadence costing three times more and an Isotek Sigmas costing the double. Even more effective if paired to the Ground City Master and the line grounding master devices.

I ran two 10 gauge runs of Romex to my audio room when we moved and am on the same power grid as the counties emergency services folks, so power has been unbelievelably stabe and reliable over the years. The only thing I've ever added is and Ayre L-5xe, which does not limit current. I'd be interested in comparing it to the Puritan. Thanks for the review!

If you get dedicated audio lines with say 10 awg audience wiring to put in your home and good furutech plugs that will help more than "just a" power conditioner. The Cable company helped me out and my electrician installed it all. I also have some pretty high end gear that doesn't need as much tweaking from power conditioners from Burmester from my 088 pre and 911 Mk3 power amp. Lower cost gear sometimes needs power conditioning more as well as dacs and preamps, streamers can be helped. I would never plug a good power amp into a power conditioner unless i lived in some zulu forest with a bad power grid. Power amps really do have nice power supplies built in after the 20-30k-40k mark.

Hey. I very much enjoyed your comments on the Puritan 156. I've been waiting for the 156 to become available here in New Zealand after initial shipments sold out, it would seem their popularity is causing delays. I have heard the 156 in an Accuphase based system. The owner also had an Isotek Aquarius 5 so we swapped about through the evening. It was fun. In truth, and perhaps because of our inexperience in such matters, we heard very little difference between the two units. We used a Supra board as something to compare the two against. Both outperformed the SUPRA. In the end I purchased the Isotek Aquarius 5 because as you so rightly said, it suited my system. However. I also purchased the Puritan Groundmaster City. Which I installed first and I must say made a noticeable difference in the overall presentation. Insight was the term both of us used when comparing both the Puritan 156 and Isotek Aquarius 5. Very much enjoy your channel. Keep up the great work. Cheers

I'd love to see Studio Power Conditionners ( 19" Rackmounted ones) against HiFi ones. I'm fairly sure they have a better price/performance ratio. I Use a Black Lion Audio PG2 (F Type for me, I'm in Europe), and you're right, that's been the best upgrade i've ever made in the past years, so much improvements in the system.

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Love the insightful research, testing and conclusions - thank you! One observation (and 99.9% of presenters do the same!): When you gesticulate a forward time-line, you move your hands from left to right; this is completely natural. It is, however, the completely wrong way round for your audience/viewers.

When I owned the 156. it worked great on sources and not very well on power hungry amps like the Pass X350.8. the amp would lose headroom and soundstage/dynamics had shrunk. I had the upgraded XX Puritan 20amp cord. overall a good value product and if possible try to get a in home demo from a dealer. imo

I've been heavily into power conditioning for over 20 years, I currently use an Isotek aqaurius evo3 and a Elektra V5. I've had Audioquest niagra 5000, PS audio, Puritan and Shunyata just to name a few. I've learned that it's important to first check how your property is wired up. I have 3 x 20 amps incoming, i used an electrician to re-group say, washing machine, heating system, fridge, freezer, electric cooker, ventilation system and so on so that i could use a single 20amp for my stereo system, also work out how much your system draws, most people with big power amp do not use a power conditioner because the amp sucks the life out of everything else that is in the same chain. I found that an Isotek elektra V5 with the 4 x 5amp 220v lower power part of the filter worked best with my tube preamp and dac compared to everything else i've tried. I even added a Synergistic research purple which lifted the sound to another level. Also power cable from the wall to the filter can make a huge difference. To sum up power conditioners, it's like tasting food, it's each to there own as to what sounds best on there system not so much the name of the product.

I have TORUS, 4kw Vac , it is day and night , it filter out both commons mode and differential mode cost me 6K US$, its weights 55kg

I have been using the PMS156 for some time. Prior to that I had a Furman reference 15i I believe. It's very quiet and lets the music flow through it. I also have my amps plugged into it with no constraints in power or definition. I'm done.

Thank you very much for a great review. I was considering Puritan for several months. Did you use it with your amplifier? Or did you prefer to keep the amp plugged directly to the wall?

hi. u said you have used all the power cords. i have 2 iFi Silentpower Supanova (has active noise cancelling) for my Denafrips pontus II 12th-1 and preamp. Have u tried the IFi Supanova? Apple Music lossless

Without mains power, no audio or audio-visual component can function. Your musical enjoyment is reduced by main's noise contamination... this can be from differential or common mode mains noise. Differential noise is created by power supplies in all electrical devices, while common mode noise is introduced by RFI and wireless communications, which, btw are becoming increasingly common. "If you got to receiver and your speakers are pushed up against the wall, this is not for you," lol 😂😂 IDK why I'm laughing cos even though my speakers might not be up against the wall. At the end of the day, they're going through a receiver 😂 Well, least an audiophile grade one anyway. However, after auditioning 3 Japanese AVR's, I totally get where you're coming from with that remark, and to think I've spent well over £4,000 on cabling and conditioning 😂 Love listening to you. You're a cool dude

Hi Michael - Your review of the Puritan Conditioner concurs with other RU-vid reviews. I'm in the process of having a dedicated 20 amp circuit installed in my listening room. Are you using the Puritan PSM156 on a dedicated circuit?

I have the Transparent Powerbank 6. I don't know if it does anything other than adding some surge protection? The outlets on it are very cheap. Some of the power cords I've used have broken plastic pieces off the power conditioner outlets. I have everything except the mono blocks plugged into it: preamp, phono stage, TT, CD player. I've heard a lot of good things about the Puritan 156. It's just a matter of time until I add one to the rig.

It is good yes. But the Isol-8 mini sub axis sounds a lot more real and actually looks very similar, plus itś a bit cheaper.

I would go with a Niagara 3000 providing the best price / performance ratio.

Is that bullfrog speakers i see? ( German)

Marantz ans Merlot or any wine is fine.

great content and opinions..Horrible lighting and no links and some more close up shots of the all the equipment your referring to.

Excellent review and welcome to the club of PSM156 owners. If you like organic sounds, have you ever tested the Dynaudio Contour 20i or Rotel P5/S5 amplification pairing? (Both combined here in this demo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VcHlxgkBIsM.html)