My review of the new P15 power regenerator

Power Components
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Thank you @Baldy, time will tell.

Meanwhile I can be patient, awaiting new DAC MKII and Streamer (even if I’m not digital).

Maybe in future PS Audio will design some new product closer to my needs, tastes and shelfs:

  1. A newer version of PowerPlant able to boost P12 (please with 2 HC slots also for EU version in order to feed both amps and subs) always in PerfectWave chassis
  2. A newer version of M1200s in a PerfectWave chassis (a sort of new monoblock in the middle of top Stellar line and starter DS line) that can benefit of some more space
    to improve power,
    to solve the PIA operations of rolling tubes that in horizontal M1200 is so difficult,
    without managing beasts like BHK300s or BHk600 that people not so young or without buddy now suffer to move,
    without real estate size problems in racks and shelfs.

Just some idea on the table…

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Vern, Maybe we can do a M1200 and BHK 300 swap and answer both our questions. :+1:

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Sounds like a great idea except there may be an ocean in the way if I am understanding the EU version references. It would be an interesting swap if logistics permitted.
Or did you mean you and I?

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You and I. M1200 and BHK 300. We aren’t that far apart the only ocean between us is Lake Michigan! lol

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@paul172 @Baldy

happy to hear from you the swapping experiment!

Unfortunately the ocean separates us (Italy has lot of famous sailors in his history but audiophile gears on Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria caravels never heard!).

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The M1200’s won’t look as impressive on top of the P20’s tho IMO.

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I could put them on my airplane and fly them over. Oh wait. I had to sell the airplane to get the 300’s. :grin:

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:Dat’s funny Baldy

+1: :+1: :clap: :clap: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :grin:

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Funny you mention that! My brother had a plane and sold it before he moved to Florida. I was trying think of who I know that has a plane! I live less than 5 miles from our local airport.

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I dont have one and never did. That bit was just for the fun of it.
I also dont have the fancy drivers license or a passport and am happy to admit that it’s ok. I guess you could say that I am well grounded.
I do some service work for my friend who has a crop dusting business. Now there is a daily daredevil.

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Late to the party. Kent, I have the same system as you:

DMP, DS DAC

BHK preamp, BHK 300

Thiel 3.7

All running on a P10 with no issue! I was looking at the P20 but in my old age starting to dislike components over 80 lbs, and I am not sure if the Canadian distributor has any in stock. Now there is a local deal on a P15, and I will sell the P10, so no brainer.

Should be “good enough” until a deal on a P20 presents itself, right?

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NICE SYSTEM.

Mine has changed a bit.

Amp: Coda 16

Pre: BAT VK 80

Transport: the new PMG

DAC: the new PMG 512

PP: still P20

Speakers: still 3.7’s. they are a hard speaker to surpass without spending a lot of money

If you are looking to update, I would suggest selling the BHK preamp and get the new PMG preamp.

Good luck and have fun

Kent Tager

President

The Hub Limited

2921D Battleground Ave.

Greensboro, NC 27408

Toll free: 866-482-5836

Phone: 336- 545-6535

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair

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The P20 will take those BHK 300’s to a new level but also agree replacing the BHK Pre with PMG.

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It really is a vivid system. I just hope the P20 doesn’t make the system any brighter. All the reviews talk about improved separation, transients, etc. That sounds like audiophile code for brightness.

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Cleaner, but not brighter.

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What Elk said. I have owned four or five generations of the various power plants, and as I moved up the food chain, the music

Became cleaner and more natural, and if anything, less edgy and bright.

Kent Tager

President

The Hub Limited

2921D Battleground Ave.

Greensboro, NC 27408

Toll free: 866-482-5836

Phone: 336- 545-6535

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair

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My experience as well: more clarity, more separation of instruments, less bright.

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What Elk said. I have a P15 - and I would describe the sound as ‘cleaner’ and ‘calmer’.

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