{"product_id":"audioquest-niagara-5000-low-z-power-noise-dissipation-system","title":"AudioQuest Niagara 5000 Low-Z Power\/Noise Dissipation System","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAudioQuest Niagara 5000 Low-Z Power\/Noise-Dissipation System\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: AudioQuest has increased prices on Niagara since the video below was made.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OTY5QACrAg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cfigure style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe general flavor profile involved the following ingredients: a drop in noise floor, better bass definition and extension, more detail, more air and space, a bigger, more precise soundstage, and a smoother sound and presentation. ... When you go back into the wall via stock cables, you realize that life before power conditioning was grainy and flat.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption class=\"source\"\u003e— GAUTAM RAJA, POSITIVE FEEDBACK, MARCH 2018\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption class=\"source\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1564\/1247\/files\/stereophile_recommended_2018_logo_e11530fc-bffb-491f-bd9d-e8da0c37b9be_compact.jpg?v=1535498081\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eRedefining the Science of Power Conditioning\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As with all good design, getting rid of the devil in AC power requires attention to every detail. Thanks, Garth!”\u003cbr\u003e—William E. Low, Founder and CEO, AudioQuest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe science of AC power delivery is not a simple one; it demands focus, and the devil is in the details. In fact, the great increase in airborne and AC-line-transmitted radio signals, combined with overtaxed utility lines and the ever-increasing demands from high-definition audio\/video components, has rendered our utilities’ AC power a somewhat antiquated technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere Alternating Current (AC) is concerned, we’re relying on a century-old technology created for incandescent lights and electric motors—technology that was certainly never meant to power the sophisticated analog and digital circuits used in today’s premium audio\/video systems. To properly accommodate the promise of today’s ever-increasing bandwidth and dynamic range, we must achieve extraordinarily low noise across a very wide range of frequencies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurther, today’s power amplifiers are being taxed for instantaneous peak-current demand, even when they’re driven at modest volumes. Although we have seen a substantial increase in dynamics from much of our audio software, the loudspeakers we employ to reproduce them are often no more efficient than they were two to four decades ago. This places great demands on an amplifier’s power supply, as well as the source AC power supplying it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur systems’ sensitive components need better alternating current—a fact that has resulted in a host of AC power conditioning, isolation transformer, regeneration amplifier, and battery back-up system topologies. Through differential sample tests and spectrum analysis, it can be proven that up to a third of a high-resolution (low-level) audio signal can be lost, masked, or highly distorted by the vast levels of noise riding along the AC power lines that feed our components. This noise couples into the signal circuitry as current noise and through AC ground, permanently distorting and\/or masking the source signal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGiven that the stakes are so high, all sincere attempts to solve this problem must be applauded.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnce the audio\/video signal is gone, it’s gone forever…\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor AudioQuest, honoring the source is never a matter of simply using premium “audiophile-grade parts” or relying on a proprietary technology—common approaches within our community. For years, we have all been witness to the same, seemingly endless audiophile debates: valves versus transistors; analog versus digital; can cables really make a difference?; and on and on. While we, too, can brag about our many unique technologies, we realize that true audio\/video optimization is never a matter of any one secret or exotic circuit. When it comes to noise filtering for AC power, many approaches can yield meaningful results. However, these approaches may also impart ringing, current compression, and non-linear distortions that can render the cure worse than the disease!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Niagara 5000 features our patented AC Ground Noise- Dissipation System, the widest bandwidth-linearized AC filter in the industry, and our unique passive\/active Transient Power Correction Circuit. Boasting an instantaneous current reservoir of over 90 amps peak, the Niagara 5000 is specifically designed for today’s current-starved power amplifiers. Many AC power products featuring “high-current outlets” merely minimize current compression; the Niagara 5000 corrects it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough it’s easy to tout a given technology, it’s quite another thing to create a solution that is consistent, holistic, functional, and that honors verifiable science. It’s not enough to reduce AC line noise and its associated distortions at just one octave, thus leaving vulnerable the adjacent octaves and octave partials to noise, resonant peaking, or insufficient noise reduction. Consistency is key. We should never accept superior resolution in one octave, only to suffer from masking effects a half-octave away and ringing artifacts two octaves from there. This is the principal criterion for AudioQuest’s Low-Z Power Noise-Dissipation System.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Niagara 5000 represents over 20 years of exhaustive research and proven AC power products designed for audiophiles, broadcast engineers, and professional-audio applications. Every conceivable detail has been addressed: In the Niagara 5000, you’ll find optimized radio-frequency lead directionality, capacitor run-in forming technologies developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratories and NASA, and AC inlet and outlet contacts with heavy silver plating over extreme-purity copper, assuring the tightest grip possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great system is built from a solid foundation, and that foundation starts with power. With an AudioQuest Niagara 5000, you’ll experience for the first time the clarity, dimensionality, frequency extension, dynamic contrast, and grip your system has always been capable of delivering—if only the power had been right!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe welcome you to experience the Niagara 5000 and hear firsthand the remarkable results of highly optimized power management: startlingly deep silences, stunning dynamic freedom, outstanding retrieval of ambience cues, and gorgeous delineation of instruments and musicians in space. Once you’ve experienced it, it may seem so elegant, so logical, and so obvious that you find yourself wondering why it hadn’t been done before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePLEASE NOTE: The Niagara 5000 does not ship with a power cord! We have plenty of great options to fit any budget so please call for more info!\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSurge suppression:\u003c\/strong\u003e Non-sacrificial (nothing to damage with repeated 6000 V\/3000 A input surge tests, which is the maximum that can survive through a building’s AC electrical panel)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtreme voltage shutdown voltage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140 VAC (will activate the main high-current relay to open within less than 0.25 second; automatically resets once the incoming power is within a safe range)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommon-mode noise dissipation:\u003c\/strong\u003e In excess of 30 dB from 20 kHz to 100 MHz, linearized for dynamic (rising) line impedance with frequency (source) and 10 to 50 Ohm load, system current dependent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInput current maximum capacity:\u003c\/strong\u003e 20 A RMS (total).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUltra-linear noise-dissipation system:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4 Isolated groups – total (bank three through six)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of AC outlets:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12 (4 high current\/transient power correction; 8 ultra-linear noise-dissipation system power)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTransient power correction:\u003c\/strong\u003e 90 A for 20-30 ms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePower consumption:\u003c\/strong\u003e Typically, less than 0.25 A at 120 VAC input, or with the power correction switched to standby setting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 17.5” W x 5.24” H x 17.2” D (3-RU rack-mounting ears, optional)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 38 lb\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"AudioQuest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":24907456784,"sku":"NIAGARA5000USA","price":6900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1564\/1247\/products\/niagara-5k-front.jpg?v=1741632331","url":"https:\/\/upscaleaudio.pro\/products\/audioquest-niagara-5000-low-z-power-noise-dissipation-system","provider":"Upscale Audio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}