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“Is Paul McGowan insane?”<br />
Dear A/V Enthusiast,<br />
This story is true. Nothing’s been<br />
changed to protect the innocent.<br />
You should know that Paul Mc-<br />
Gowan, PS Audio’s CEO, may be<br />
certifiably crazy.<br />
Here’s the story. But first, let me<br />
introduce myself…<br />
I’m Bob Stadtherr, PS Audio’s VP<br />
of Engineering. Ever heard of the<br />
PS Power Plant? It was the world’s<br />
first high-end AC power regenerator.<br />
I engineered it. Introduced in 1997,<br />
the P300 Power Plant started a whole<br />
new class of high-end audio/video<br />
components—known today as AC<br />
Power Conditioners.<br />
Listen, I’ve been around the block<br />
a few times with PS Audio and<br />
Paul McGowan. So I know what I’m<br />
talking about.<br />
Going, going, gone<br />
I’d suspected he was losing it<br />
several years ago. Paul started coming<br />
up with wild ideas. The clincher was<br />
something he called the Quintet.<br />
It was maybe two years ago.<br />
Paul came into my office and asked,<br />
“Want to hear a crazy idea?”<br />
Paul had seen some studies about a<br />
radical new concept, called Nanocrystalline<br />
technology. It appeared to<br />
overcome the inverse relationship of<br />
AC cleaning to available power.<br />
This was a thorny problem that all<br />
high-end AC power conditioners<br />
faced. If you wanted to thoroughly<br />
clean the AC line, it required lots of<br />
wire, which hurt the dynamics in<br />
audio and the contrast in video.<br />
Nanocrystalline technology appeared<br />
to solve that issue.<br />
Paul had this wild<br />
idea that if we<br />
could use<br />
this new<br />
Nanocrystalline<br />
technology, we could<br />
build much higher<br />
performing AC power conditioners,<br />
more compact and more affordable.<br />
Impossible dream<br />
Unfortunately, that was only the<br />
beginning. Once we figured out how<br />
to employ Nanocrystalline, Paul went<br />
off the deep end. He directed our<br />
engineering team to develop a new<br />
product he called the Quintet Power<br />
Center.<br />
Here’s just part of his list:<br />
• Include 5 new filters, independently<br />
isolated(!), with two AC outlets per<br />
filter.<br />
• Unrestricted power for an entire<br />
system.<br />
• Solid copper buss bars—no wimpy<br />
wires or circuit board traces.<br />
• Spike and far more critical surge<br />
protection (not available from other<br />
high-end conditioners regardless of<br />
claims).<br />
• Half-inch solid aluminum chassis.<br />
• Power sequencing, remote 12-volt<br />
triggering, CATV and telephone<br />
protection, etc.<br />
Method to his madness?<br />
Astonishingly, the Quintet beat<br />
every competitors’ high-end passive<br />
AC power conditioner<br />
we tested, even the<br />
$2,000+ variety. So maybe<br />
there was some method to Paul’s<br />
madness after all...<br />
But then crazy Paul did the<br />
unthinkable. He set the price at $695.<br />
With regrets,<br />
Bob Stadtherr<br />
Bob Stadtherr, VP of Engineering<br />
PS—Hurry. Get yourself a Quintet<br />
before Paul’s medications kick in.<br />
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