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After reading Dan's review on another site for the PS Audio Dectet, I decided to purchase one of these 10 outlet units this past winter when they were having their half price sale. Aside from a six month wait for the restock, I'm glad that I went this route.
In my basement room when my wife and built out the space and wired (along with my Dad the PE who instructed and helped with the proper wiring method) our room for outlets and lights, we were sure to place the rooms' duplex and four-plex wall power outlets on a separate breaker run than the overhead recessed and track lighting. When I finally decided to use part of the space for my listening room, I then ran a dedicated 20amp circuit for the stereo gear. Since that time I never had a single "outlet strip" that would allow the plugging in of all my gear so I was always spanning the gear plug ins between the dedicated 20amp run and the rest of the room's dedicated outlets.
Since having the PS Audio Dectet installed whereby I can finally plug in my power amps into a single zone on the Dectet (bank of two), my analog power into another Dectet zone (bank of four) and my digital power into yet another Dectet zone (bank of four), the noise floor has been reduced even further than it was prior to the Dectet addition. This is especially noticed with my vinyl rig which always had a little tiny bit of ground hum that I could not eliminate. After the addition of the Dectet, that ground hum is gone entirely and my vinyl rig is running on a noise floor as quiet as the Lumin or Oppo BDP-95 player starts with.
I don't notice any lack of dynamics or any other downside to having everything plugged into the Dectet now, quite the opposite. Everything sounds better now since it's starting from such a black background.
Perhaps the Dectet is doing nothing more than allowing me to plug EVERYTHING into a single, dedicated 20amp outlet and I might have gotten the same result with any other 10-outlet strip? Who knows? I don't really care at this point as this thing is working extremely well for me....and, it also allows me to unplug all my gear with one plug from the wall during our stormy season if needed.
I like it and highly recommend it.
In my basement room when my wife and built out the space and wired (along with my Dad the PE who instructed and helped with the proper wiring method) our room for outlets and lights, we were sure to place the rooms' duplex and four-plex wall power outlets on a separate breaker run than the overhead recessed and track lighting. When I finally decided to use part of the space for my listening room, I then ran a dedicated 20amp circuit for the stereo gear. Since that time I never had a single "outlet strip" that would allow the plugging in of all my gear so I was always spanning the gear plug ins between the dedicated 20amp run and the rest of the room's dedicated outlets.
Since having the PS Audio Dectet installed whereby I can finally plug in my power amps into a single zone on the Dectet (bank of two), my analog power into another Dectet zone (bank of four) and my digital power into yet another Dectet zone (bank of four), the noise floor has been reduced even further than it was prior to the Dectet addition. This is especially noticed with my vinyl rig which always had a little tiny bit of ground hum that I could not eliminate. After the addition of the Dectet, that ground hum is gone entirely and my vinyl rig is running on a noise floor as quiet as the Lumin or Oppo BDP-95 player starts with.
I don't notice any lack of dynamics or any other downside to having everything plugged into the Dectet now, quite the opposite. Everything sounds better now since it's starting from such a black background.
Perhaps the Dectet is doing nothing more than allowing me to plug EVERYTHING into a single, dedicated 20amp outlet and I might have gotten the same result with any other 10-outlet strip? Who knows? I don't really care at this point as this thing is working extremely well for me....and, it also allows me to unplug all my gear with one plug from the wall during our stormy season if needed.
I like it and highly recommend it.
