PS Audio's New Premier is Actually Like Having an AC Substation in Your Home!

It’s been almost ten years since the first A/C Regenerator from PS Audio changed the way audiophiles listened to their systems. The PS Audio Power Plants have been regarded as a technological “break-through” in terms of A/C power delivery. While all the Power Plant models have delivered pure, clean A/C to our systems, they all suffered from an issue of efficiency. The Power Plant is actually an amplifier, one which re-produces a perfect supply of incoming power to your equipment. Older Power Plants consumed gobs of power, ran very hot and only delivered a fraction of their consumed power to your components. With the Premier, all that has changed!

“PS Audio provides some of the best AC filtration and protection at a wide range of prices, but the Premier is a truly outstanding product that generates the cleanest AC around!”
- Anthony Cordesman, The Absolute Sound, Golden Ear Award Winner, June 2008

“The PS Audio Power Plant Premier is the first conditioner that I can unreservedly recommend. A completely different product from the earlier generation-it runs quietly and doesn’t produce much heat-it delivers 1500 watts of the clean power fro the wall outlet, while measurably lowering total harmonic distortion on the AC line. Music emerged with unprecedented authority from my speakers with this ingenious device!”
- Jacob Heilbrunn, The Absolute Sound, Golden Ear Award Winner, June 2008

Over the last 5 years, Paul McGowan and Co. have been hard at work, the dream of aPower Plant that incorporates all the design elements of the perfect power line conditioner have finally been met! New effective “no-loss” A/C filtration, true surge and spike protection for your gear, power output only limited by what your wall socket can supply, multiple isolated outlets to protect each component from one another, built-in true and accurate harmonic distortion analysis, even remote control for MultiWave patterns and CleanWave functions. The folks at PS Audio had some lofty goals and finally they've all been met!

With an industrial design inspired by the new series of BMW automobiles and motorcycles, the new PS Audio Power Plant Premier looks as good as it sounds! With its extruded aluminum chassis combined with machined, extruded and formed steel elements make the Premier absolutely stunning to behold.

Now you can have your entire system powered by the Power Plant Premier which easily delivers 1500 watts of pure, re-generated, perfect A/C! The Premier also includes 10 Power Port A/C outlets, five fully isolated zones, new “Nano Crystalline” filtration (see below), and protection for your cable and phone lines.

“Nano Crystalline”is a brand-new material used in the production of exotic aerospace applications and now used by PS Audio in the development of their new A/C filters. First, a word of explanation. A good A/C filter needs a strong magnetic field to develop at the frequencies you want to eliminate. In the past, PS Audio relied on giant baluns for this task; a balun is a very effective filter made with long lengths of wire wrapped around a ferrite core. However, these long lengths of wire could impede instantaneous A/C current delivery. So, PS Audio went in search of a better way.

Enter Nano Crystalline technology, a material that has the highest magnetic permeability available! This new technology is so powerful that PS Audio can now build sonically superior filters at 1/10th the size of their previous models! The Nano Crystalline filter consists of tiny donuts of magnetic material wrapped with very short lengths of wire that actually produce the same size magnetic field as a giant balun! What does that mean? It means that every PS Audio Power Product with this technology cleans your power better and sounds better than anything that PS Audio's ever made!

PS Audio has finally accomplished their goal to design and build the perfect Power Plant. You owe it to yourself to get one home and audition the Power Plant Premier in your own system. If you are not convinced that PS Audio has developed an incredible tool to maximize the performance of all your components, we want you to send it back!

Features:

Regenerated AC Power
Low Distortion Sine Wave
MultiWave and CleanWave™
Regulated AC
1500 Watt Output Power
Harmonic Distortion Analyzer
Remote Control
Nano Crystalline Filters
10 Power Port AC Receptacles
Solid Copper Delivery System

Benefits:

True Dynamic Voltage Regulation
Better Bass from Equipment
Complete Isolation
Protection for Everything Connected
Lowers Distortion by 10 Times
Ultra Low Output Impedance
Superior Noise Reduction
Delayed Turn on for Proper Startup
Protect Satellite or TV as Well
Harmonic Analyzer Gives Complete Visibility of your Power

Specifications:

Dimensions - 17" W x 16.5" D x 4" H
Weight - 35 lbs
Nominal Input Voltage - 105-135
Maximum Continuous Load - 1200VA
Dynamic Power Delivery - 0.5 second >3600VA
Voltage Regulation - +/- 0.5V
Output Distortion Input - 1200VA Resistive load <0.5%
Output distortion Input - 1200VA reactive load <0.5%
Output impedance - <0.015 Ohm
Noise reduction - 100KHz-2MHz >80dB
Efficiency @1200VA - Resistive load >80% Reactive load >85%
Input Frequency - 45-65Hz
Under voltage limit - 90VAC
Over voltage limit - 145VAC
Energy dissipation - 2160J
Peak Current surge - 144,000A
Max Surge - 6,000 Volts
Clamp level - 330v
Telco protection - 320 Joules 395 volts
Coax insertion loss - <1dB
DC trigger config - Tip positive
DC trigger Voltage - 5-15 volts DC

POWER PLAY 9000

POWER PLAY 8000

Features

Benefits

DUET POWER STRIP

HUMBUSTER III

The HB III is capable of handling any size power requirement from the largest to the smallest power requirement; Need more than one piece of equipment "busted"? Simply purchase a Juicebar II power extender and place this after the HB III. No sonic degradation or dynamic restriction with the HB III. Try it at home and if it doesn't do the job, send it back!

It’s almost like magic
Connect the HB III and voila!  The hum’s pretty much gone.  How does it work?  It eliminates the DC component on the AC line.
 
All AC power lines have a small component of DC (battery type voltage) on the line.
 
Typically this DC is held to a very low level and causes only a few problems.  However, many homes are not “typical” and this DC component can be quite high.  In fact, if it’s high enough to cause an asymmetry that “pushes” the voltage in the transformer in one direction and partially saturates the core of the transformer, this will cause the transformer to buzz. 

In addition to buzzing noises, the transformer is also at a performance disadvantage because its core is not working properly.

Transformers work best when there is absolutely zero DC presented to them.  This is because transformers are AC devices, not DC devices.  Transformers need to change the direction of their magnetic fields multiple times per second in order to function properly.  When there's DC on the line, it forces the transformer to stay polarized in one direction and this drives the transformer a little crazy - it hums and complains in response. 

The HB III is almost like magic in the way it removes the DC component from the AC line and either stops or significantly reduces the buzz and vibrations caused by DC.  How effective the HB III is depends on just how much DC there is on the line and what the quality of the transformer is.  Further, the HB III improves the performance and, in some cases, lowers the heat produced by power transformers when it removes the DC. It’s the elimination or reduction of the DC component on the AC power line that really helps to lower noise. 

The HB III removes nearly 1 volt of possible DC from the AC line and every piece of gear, from Power Plants to amplifiers, to preamps and video projectors benefit from its addition. 

How does it work?

HB IIIs work by placing a simple network of power rectifiers and power capacitors in an arrangement that removes the direct coupling at the AC’s zero crossing point.  This blocks DC from coming through.  Then, just a volt or so above and below the zero cross point, we direct couple the AC signal back again.  It’s simple, yet effective. 

Are there any restrictions?

Not really.  The HB III is built from huge 50 amp devices and is not current limiting or restricting in any way as long as you are not asking more from it than you would from the wall socket.  Placed between any size load that a standard 15 or 20 amp wall outlet can power, the output of the HB III is DC free and AC clean and can safely and effectively power anything you want to throw at it. You can feed the HB III balanced or standard single ended AC power.  The HB III will accept any AC voltage from 100 to 240 volts AC. 

HB IIIs do not replace an Ultimate Outlet or a Power Plant, but are used in addition to them to augment their performance.

How do I know if I need one?

Take a moment to place your ear close to each piece of gear in your setup when it's on and functioning.  If there's a noticeable humming or buzz inside, you're a candidate for an HB III. Sometimes this noise is not audible because of the time of day.  You might just notice that you hear a buzzing sound in your system (not through the speakers) at some time in the day but not others.  This is quite typical and this would also qualify as a candidate for a HB III. Or, you can simply assume you'd be better off making sure there's no DC getting through and connect your power amps and source gear through one or several HB IIIs and be done with it.

NOISE HARVESTER

Eliminate noise right at the source. The PS AudioNoise Harvester is the world's only device that actually eliminates line noise from your home's power lines. All power conditioners do is attempt to isolate your equipment from all the power line noise, but they cannot eliminate or remove power line noise. Only the Noise Harvester removes line noise and converts it to another form of energy, light! Give your power conditioner a nice head start by lowering your noise floor in the first place.

You will actually see the Noise Harvester working as it converts all this noise into light! You will easily be able to hear the improvements made by the Noise Harvester and the effect is cumulative! The more Noise Harvesters the better! Place one on any outlet where you have a computer plugged in, a refrigerator, a lamp or light with a dimmer switch and place a few in the room with all your HiFi gear. This is the newest budget tweak on the market and the design team at PS Audio has really developed something very special! Any system will reap the benefits of the Noise Harvester!