Elgar conditioner

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xsb7244

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Elgar conditioner
« on: 13 Jan 2014, 09:50 pm »
Read music computer 2012 update, part 2:  clean power by John Atwood.
http://www.clarisonus.com/blog?p=424
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Re: Elgar conditioner
« Reply #1 on: 14 Jan 2014, 09:21 am »
I see there's a power amplifier in the Elgar not too dissimilar to a hifi amp. The principal is the same, question the reliability mainly but if you don't overload things too much, they should last a long time. plus you have isolation. Some brainstorming.

A typical AVR of even modest power or an old 2CH amplifier has very low distortion characteristics. They are 2nd hand very inexpensive. If you want to make a clean supply with low distortion, a precision sine wave generator that outputs 0.775V fed into an amplifier. Use the low output impedance of the speaker terminals in mono bridge mode into a step up transformer to 120V or 60-0-60 (240, 120-0-120 for EU). You would have to add protection, GFCI/RCD of course. The amplifiers have good protection circuitry. The voltage will vary, but nothing most modern electronics can cope with easily.

Depending on the size of your amplifier, even a modest 100W would be achievable, enough to drive a computer, DAC, tuner and it would be reasonably quiet.

A sine wave generator can be a wave file played in a continuous loop on an old clunker PC.


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Re: Elgar conditioner
« Reply #3 on: 14 Jan 2014, 07:02 pm »
Atma-Sphere music systems has this to say about Elgar.
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/general/messages/55/554746.html